Transcript Martha Helps the Rebels - Northside Christian School

Martha Helps the Rebel
A Play by Carole Charles
Open 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