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My Brother Sam is Dead. My Brother Sam is Dead. Chapter 1-2. Characters: -Tom, Sam, Father Setting: Redding, New England Main Idea/Conflict: Sam is going to war, which is against his Father’s will. Other important details:. Chapter 1-2 Questions:.
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My Brother Sam is Dead My Brother Sam is Dead
Chapter 1-2 • Characters:-Tom, Sam, Father • Setting: • Redding, New England • Main Idea/Conflict: • Sam is going to war, which is against his Father’s will. • Other important details:
Chapter 1-2 Questions: • 1. Who barges into the Meeker tavern in April 1775, and with what news? • 2. How does Sam feel about fighting the Lobsterbacks? • 3. How does Sam answer when the minister, Mr. Beach, asks him if he thinks he knows better than the King and Parliament? • 4. How has Sam's father handled him in the past for speaking out? • 5. What complaint does Sam have when Tim asks him to help with the chores? • 6. Where does Sam tell Timmy he is going and why did he come home? • 7. After father orders Sam out of the house, what does father do? • 8. What is father's opinion of Sam's cause? • 9. After church, where does Tim find Sam hiding? • 10. Why does Tim become alarmed?
Chapter 1-2 Vocabulary ___ 1. garrison A. evil ___ 2. vicious B. written dedication ___ 3. treason C. pleasant ___ 4. agitators D. inclined to lust ___ 5. inscription E. betrayal of allegiance ___ 6. sloth F. laziness ___ 7. lasciviousness G. angry; vengeful ___ 8. subversion H. act of destruction or overthrowing ___ 9. vile I. troublemaker ___10. wrathy J. wretchedly bad ___11. cordial K. fortified body of troops ___12. gaudy L. showy without taste
Chapter 3-5 Question • 1. Were there many changes in Redding due to the war in the summer of 1775? • 2. Who passed secret information on Sam's whereabouts to Tim? • 3. What disturbed Tim's fall afternoon wood chopping? • 4. How does Tim respond when the Continental officer threatens his father? • 5. Why didn't Sam rush into the tavern to help his father? • 6. What happened when Sam and his father met face to face? • 7. How did the war now affect Redding in the winter of 1776? • 8. What are Tim's feeling about Sam since he has seen him? • 9. What is Mr. Heron's offer to Mr. Meeker concerning Tim? • 10. How does Tim react to Mr. Heron's offer?
Chapter 6-8 Question • 1. What action does Timmy take that is against his father's wishes? • 2. How does Betsy Read interfere with Tim and Mr. Heron's plan? • 3. What argument do Life and Susannah have over Sam's letters? • 4. Who does Life decide to take with him to Verplanck's Point for his yearly trip? • 5. What is Tim's job on the journey to Verplanck's Point? • 6. For what reason is their trip interrupted? What happens? • 7. Who aids Tim and his father in their time of need? • 8. How are Tim's cousins living conditions different from he and Sam's at the tavern? • 9. What do Ezekiel and Tim discuss before falling asleep? • 10. Describe father and Tim's experience in Verplanck's Point? • 11. Why does father decide to return the same way they came and not to stop at the tavern? • 12. What slows them down when they are four miles from their relatives?
Chapter 9-10 Question • 1. What happens to father on the road between Ridgebury and Redding Ridge? • 2. How does Tim decide what he will do if the cow-boys return for him and the supplies? • 3. What does Tim do when the cow-boys stop him? • 4. How does he feel about his ploy? • 5. Where does mother think Life is? • 6. In what way does Tim realize he has changed after he gets back home? • 7. How is business at the tavern now that just Tim and his mother are running it? • 8. What draws the townspeople's' attention late in April of 1777? • 9. How do the Lobsterbacks react when the Rebel messenger rides into town unknowingly? • 10. On his way to fetch Dr. Hobart to tend to the wounded messenger, what does Tim witness?
Chapter 11-12 Questions • 1. What news does the wounded Continental messenger have about the British troop movement? • 2. Whose troops are following the Redcoats? • 3. Why does that interest Tim? • 4. When Captain Betts comes into the tavern after his release from the British, what does he tell Timmy to do? • 5. Why won't mother allow him to do it? • 6. Where does Tim find Sam and in what shape is he? • 7. What is mother's plea to Sam when she sees him? What is Sam's reply? • 8. How does Timmy feel after this meeting with Sam? • 9. What news of Life and Jerry Sanford did they receive in June of 1777? • 10. Who shows up later in 1778 and what advice does he give Timmy? • 11. Do Tim and mother take his advice? • 12. What turn of events occur at the end of chapter 12?
Chapter 13- Epilogue Questions • 1. Who does Tim go to see about the false charges against Sam? • 2. How does Tim's mother react to this message? • 3. What does she find out about the situation? • 4. How does Colonel Read clarify the problem for mother and Tim? • 5. What was the result of the court martial? • 6. How does Colonel Parsons explain the decision to Tim? • 7. When Tim goes to Colonel Putnam in Sam's defense, what happens? • 8. What is Tim's plan to save Sam the night before the execution? Is it successful? • 9. Was Sam executed as planned? • 10. What happens to Tim and his mother after Sam's execution?
