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Prologue: An Important Warning

Essential Question: What is Charlotte’s purpose for writing the “Important Warning?”

1. Who is the narrator of the story? What is the point of view? 2.Name the four reasons Charlotte gives for explaining her parents’ decision is to let her travel alone? 3. What is the foreshadowing at the end of the prologue? What does it hint at?

Answer the Essential Question.

1. The narrator of the story is __________ and the point of view is _________________.

Answers to questions must be in complete

sentences (answer all prompts).

TCCD: Chapter One

Essential Question: If you were Charlotte, how would you feel about sailing on the Seahawk?

1. Who is the narrator of the story? What point of view is this being written in? 2. What two ominous events occur as Charlotte and Mr. Grummage make their way down the pier to the Seahawk? 3. What unusual thing does Charlotte think she sees as she waits for Mr. Grummage to return? .

Answer the Essential Question. How would you feel about sailing on the Seahawk? Give a specific example to support your answer.

Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (answer all prompts).

Prologue Vocabulary

1. Summoned – “While working in England, my father received an advancement and was summoned home to America.”

Your guess: _____________________________________

Actual definition: ________________________________

2. transpired – “My journal enabled me to relate everything that transpired during that fateful voyage.”

Your guess: _____________________________________

Actual definition:________________________________

Chapter 1 - Vocabulary

3. quell – “I, however, unable to quell my excited curiosity, managed to slip in one more question.” Your guess: _____________________________________ Actual definition: _____________________________________

4. din – “’Mr. Grummage, Sir,’ I called over the din.” Your guess: _____________________________________ Actual definition: ______________________________________

5. reticule –“Hastily, I began to extract a coin from my reticule.” Your guess: _____________________________________ Actual definition: ______________________________________

TCCD: Chapter Two

Essential Question: Summarize this chapter in 3 sentences.

1. Describe Charlotte’s cabin. Use exact phrases (3) from the text. 2. What is Barlow’s warning? 3. Describe Zachariah. 4. What does Zachariah tell Charlotte? 5. What is a final friend? 6. Describe the overheard conversation at the end of the chapter.

Answer the Essential Question. Make a prediction.

Answers to questions must be in complete sentences. Answer all prompts.


6. decrepit – “Standing there was a shockingly decrepit old sailor…” Your guess:__________________________________ Actual definition: _____________________________ 7. vexation – “...that I burst into tears of vexation..., crying with fear, rage, and humiliation.”

Your guess: _________________________________ Actual definition: _____________________________

8. trepidation – “I followed with trepidation, stopping at the threshold to look about.” Your guess: ________________________________ Actual definition: _____________________

TCCD: Chapter Three

Essential Question: How does Charlotte feel about the crew and the captain?

1. What is the “shock of my life” that Charlotte receives? 2. Describe the sailors. (3) 3. Describe the Captain. Use exact text. 4. What does “No ship sails the same sea twice” mean? 5. What is Charlotte’s “new hope”? 6. What is wrong with Charlotte, who takes care of her?

Answer the Essential Question. Who is the 1st mate and the 2nd mate?



9. Chastened – “…I sat up with some energy only to strike my head upon the low ceiling. Chastened, I got myself to the cabin floor.”

Your guess: _____________________________________

Actual definition: ________________________________

10. doffed – “One by one the sailors shuffled forward a step, lifted their heads, doffed their caps, and spoke their names.”

Your guess: _____________________________________

Actual definition: ____________________

TCCD: Chapter Four

Essential Question: What is the tone of this chapter?

1. What does Zachariah mean, “A ship is a nation of its own.” 2. Describe what happened one year ago on the ship? 3. What does Zachariah mean by, “I was first surgeon, then carpenter to Mr. Crannick.” 4. Why is the crew back on the Seahawk?

Answer the Essential Question. Give a specific example from the text to support your answer.


Chapter 4 - Vocabulary 11. sealegs – “And most pleased too that you’ve found your – what sailors call – sealegs.” Your guess: _________________________________ Actual definition: ________________________________

12. jack – “That poor jack went by the name of Mr. Crannick.” Your guess: __________________________________ Actual definition: ______________________________

13. ire – “..one poor sailor come under the captain’s ire, the captain’s judgment, the captain’s rage.” Your guess: ___________________________________ Actual definition: _______________________________

14. appalled – “Appalled, I jumped off the stool. ‘I don’t believe you!’ I shouted.” Your guess: ___________________________ Actual definition: _______________________

TCCD: Chapter Five

Essential Question: Why is Charlotte on the Captain’s side?

1. Why doesn’t Charlotte believe Zachariah? 2. Describe the captain’s cabin. Use exact words from the text. 3. What does “awash with tea” mean? 4. What do you find out about the captain’s family? 5. How does the captain think Charlotte can help the crew? 6. Draw a round robin. What is it?

Answer the Essential Question. Why do you think she lies to him about the dirk?


Chapter 5 - Vocabulary 15. presumptuous – “The duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants.” Your guess: ___________________________ Actual definition: ______________________ 16. punctilious – “I am a punctilious man, Miss Doyle. Without order there is chaos.” Your guess: _____________________________________ Actual definition: ________________________________ 17. flourish – “At the open door he paused, and with flourish, extended his arm.” Your guess: _____________________________ Actual definition: ________________________

TCCD: Chapter Six

Essential Question: Summarize what happens in the hold.

1. What does Barlow mean, “Just now, miss, the captain put us on display?” 2. Describe the hold. Use sensory details: Sight (3), Sound, Smell, Touch. 3. What scares Charlotte in the hold?

Answer the Essential Question. In 3 sentences, summarize what happened in the hold.



18. brig –

“That’s where the brig is.” “Brig?” “The ship’s jail.” Your guess: ______________________ Actual definition: _________________

TCCD: Chapter Seven

Essential Question: By the end of the chapter, what does Charlotte thinks actually happened in the hold?

1. What actually scared Charlotte? 2. What is Charlotte convinced of? 3. What does this line, “Alas, such would not be the case,” foreshadow?



Chapter 7 - Vocabulary 19. eddy (eddied) – “…crouching in pitch blackness while the wash of ship sounds eddied about me.” Your guess: Actual definition: 20. hideous – “This time it rolled to one side, as though twisting down upon a shoulder yet all the while glaring hideously at me.”

Your guess: Actual definition: 21. malicious – “Besides, though I hardly knew the man, he seemed too submissive, too beaten about, to be capable of such a malicious trick.” Your guess: Actual definition: 22. sheath – “I took up the dirk and - since it had no sheath- wrapped it in one of my handkerchiefs.” Your guess: Actual definition:

TCCD: Chapter Eight

Essential Question: What is your opinion of Captain Jaggery?

1. What does Charlotte mean by “unstinting was he in his praise?” 2. What does the Captain mean by “Sweet are the uses of adversity?” 3. Evaluate how the Captain treats the crew. Give 2 examples. 4. What does the line, “But the storm was – at first- man made,” foreshadow?

Answer the Essential Question and give one specific example from the text as support.


Chapter 8 - Vocabulary 23. yarns – “Then there were their yarns. Tales of castaways on Pacific atolls…” Your guess: Actual definition: 24. holystones – “Decks had to be holystoned, caulked, and scrubbed anew….”

Your guess: Actual definition: 25. duff – “Twice a week we might have duff, the seaman’s delight: boiled flour and raisins.” Your guess: Actual definition:

TCCD: Chapter Nine

Essential Question: Summarize this chapter.

1. What two frightening things does Charlotte discover during her visit to the forecastle? 2. How does Mr. Morgan threaten Charlotte? 3. Why does Mr. Morgan threaten her? 3. What does the Captain mean by, “I intend to crush this mutiny before it starts?”

Answer the Essential Question in a five sentence summary.



26. scandalous – “Scraps of pictures – some of a scandalous nature – were nailed here…” Your guess: Actual definition: 27. stilettolike – “He lifted a hand, extended a stilettolike forefinger, and drew it across his own neck….”

Your guess: Actual definition:

TCCD: Chapter Ten

Essential Question: Summarize this chapter.

1. Who is the “tenth” person on board and what does he want? 2. Who says, “As a man he claims our mercy?” And what does this mean? 3. Why does the Captain tell Charlotte to choose who will take the punishment?

Answer the Essential Question in a five sentence summary.



28. contorted – “…their expressions contorted with fear and fury”.

Your guess:

Actual definition:

29. irrelevance – “… the rigging rattles with eerie irrelevance”.

Your guess:

Actual definition:

TCCD: Chapter Eleven

Essential Question: How does Charlotte show her bravery?

1. What three points does Zachariah make in his speech at the beginning of the chapter? 2. What is Zachariah sentenced to? 3. What does the Captain mean by, “Proper order will be maintained”?

Answer the Essential Question. Who else is brave?

Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (answer all promtps).


30. palpable – “Though the glitter of hatred in his eyes was palpable enough, no one dared give voice to it.” Your guess: Actual definition:

31. gumption – “… stand aside for someone who has the gumption.” Your guess: Actual definition:

32. contemptuously – “The man looked contemptuously at the man who had just beaten his dog.” Your guess: Actual definition:

TCCD: Chapter Twelve

Essential Question: What big decision does Charlotte make at the end of the chapter?

1. What reasons does Charlotte give for the Captain choosing Zachariah to beat? 2. What does a hammock on the deck mean? 3. Charlotte blames herself for two deaths. Whose and why?



Chapter 12 - Vocabulary 33. loathing – “…the crew would have nothing but loathing for me who had betrayed them.” Your guess:

Actual definition:

34. restitution – “If only I could make restitution, if only I could convince the men that I accepted my responsibility.” Your guess:

Actual definition:

35. remorse – “Once again I gave myself up to grief and remorse.” Your guess:

Actual definition:

36. wrath – “I who had fired his terrible wrath by reporting to him Ewing’s pistol.”

Your guess:

Actual definition:

TCCD: Chapters 1 - 12

Essential Question: Create a plot chart for Section One.

1. What happened in the exposition? (setting, characters)

2. Name seven (7) important events from chapters 2–9.

3. What is the climax in chapter 10 & 11?

4. Falling action in chapter 12.

5. What is the resolution? Answer the Essential Question.


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