1. 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 (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

2. 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 (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

3. 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 (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

4. 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 1 st mate and the 2 nd mate? Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

5. 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. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

6. 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? Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

7. 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. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

8. 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? Answer the Essential Question. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

9. 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. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 1-2 sentences per question).

10. 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. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

11. 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. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

12. 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 (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

13. 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? Answer the Essential Question. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).

14. TCCD: Chapters 1 - 12 Essential Question: Create a plot chart for Section One. 1.What happened in the exposition? (intro. 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. Answer the Essential Question. Answers to questions must be in complete sentences (minimum of 2 sentences per question).