Martha Helps the Rebel

A Play by Carole CharlesOpen Court Reading

Unit 6 Lesson 4 Word Knowledge and Vocabulary

val-iant

• The soldier sang, “Come all you brave soldiers, Both valiant and free, It’s for independence, We all now agree.”

• We saw the valiant rescue of a little boy who had fallen through the ice.

valiant- brave and courageous

in-de-pen-dence

• The soldier sang, ”Come all you brave soldiers, Both valiant and free, It’s for independence, We all now agree.”

• Jenny enjoys the independence of having her own apartment.

Independence- freedom

raft-ers

• I want you up on those rafters, right over the sport where the quilting rack will be.

• Some birds had built a nest in the rafters of the barn.

rafters- beams that support a roof

Con-ti-nent-al Army

• My husband is a soldier with the Continental Army too.

• The Continental Army fought the British Army in the Revolutionary War.

Continental Army- American Army that fought the British during the Revolutionary War

de-fi-ant

• Martha said in a defiant voice, “My name is Martha, not ‘Little Girl!’”

• The defiant toddler wouldn’t do anything his parents told him to do.

defiant- standing up against authority; resisting authority