Martha Helps the Rebel

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Martha Helps the Rebel

• A Play by Carole Charles
• Open Court Reading
• Unit 6 Lesson 4 Word Knowledge and Vocabulary

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Word KnowledgeGrade 4, Unit 6 Lesson 4
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These words contain pairs of synonyms Line
1 brave valiant pursue chase A synonym is a
word that has the same or similar meaning to
another word These words have the /er/
sound Line 2 collar haggard scholar mustard Sp
elled ar These words contain a consonant
blend Line 3 stream twilight skillet grateful
Consonant blends str, tw, sk, and gr These
words contain the Latin root port Line
4 transport report important support Sentence
1 Id chase all the British soldiers right back
to England! Sentence 2 The haggard soldier
appeared at the door. Sentence 3 Bring him back
by the stream. Sentence 4 Before independence,
American officials were required to report to
the King of England.
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valiant
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haggard
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scholar
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twilight
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skillet
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report
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val-iant
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• The soldier sang, Come all you brave soldiers,
  Both valiant and free, Its 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
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in-de-pen-dence

• The soldier sang, Come all you brave soldiers,
  Both valiant and free, Its for independence, We
  all now agree.
• Jenny enjoys the independence of having her own
  apartment.

Independence- freedom
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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
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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
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de-fi-ant

• Martha said in a defiant voice, My name is
  Martha, not Little Girl!
• The defiant toddler wouldnt do anything his
  parents told him to do.

defiant- standing up against authority resisting
authority
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The American Revolution
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• The American Revolution refers to the period
  during the last half of the 18th century in which
  the Thirteen Colonies that became the United
  States of America gained independence from the
  British Empire.
• In this period, the Colonies rebelled against the
  British Empire and entered into the American
  Revolutionary War between 1775 and 1783. This
  culminated in an American declaration of
  independence in 1776, and victory on the
  battlefield in 1781.

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The American Revolution
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The Revolutionary War
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The Revolutionary War

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