Common Core Unit 6.4 Courageous Characters: The Golden Goblet
The Golden Goblet, by Eloise McGraw
Unit 6.4
By Annie Vickery
Essential Questions:
1. How are acts of courage revealed in writing?
2. How do characters change as a result of these acts of courage?
Supplemental Texts: Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop
Literature Circles/Guided Reading
Suggested stories listed in ARSU document
Available online:
 “Casabianca” (Hemans):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/works/hfburning.html
 “If” (Kipling): http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/
 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass free audio
download: http://www.freeaudio.org/fdouglass/narrative.html
Interactive Web Tools:
 Create a three circle Venn online: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroomresources/student-interactives/venn-diagram-circles-a-30032.html?tab=2
 In Motion: The African American Migration Experience:
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
 Follow an actual Titanic Passenger to see if they survive. Get biographical details about
the ship and the passenger.
http://www.discovery.com/guides/history/titanic/Titanic/titanic.html?00100
 The My Hero Project: Choose a story on this website of heroic/courageous action to read
and use for the essential questions/journal questions above
http://www.myhero.com/go/directory/
 An interactive journey from slavery to freedom on the UR.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/plantation.htm
 Webbing Tool: http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=127&title=
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Online Choose Your Own Adventure Story Writing Activity:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/choose-your-adventurehypertext-128.html?tab=4#tabs
Word Map PDF:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson307/wordmap.pdf
Vocabulary word map example, blank, and rubric:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/internalizationvocabulary-through-word-307.html?tab=3#tabs
Anchor Assessment: After reading one of the literary pieces about a courageous character, write
a paper about how the character had the courage to “follow his or her convictions.” Specifically,
 What were his/her convictions?
 What challenges did the character face in trying to follow their convictions?
 Provide specific examples from the text to support the ideas presented.
 Provide quotes and PPL’s to prove the examples.
 Edit the paper for grammar, sentence structure, spelling and mechanics.
Possible Suggested Supplemental Activities:
1. Compare and contrast two courageous characters OR a courageous and a cowardly
character.
2. Consider how we memorialize courageous people and actions. Examine images of the
Lincoln Memorial, the Iwo Jima Memorial, the Viet Nam Memorial, and the Washington
Monument. What is the style of the memorial and what is its intended effect? What local
memorials can be found in Castleton or Vermont?
3. Survivors from the Titanic reported that musicians played music to keep the passengers
calm while the crew loaded the lifeboats. Read a primary source from a Titanic survivor
and in a well developed paragraph, provide and explain three reasons why this was an act
of courage.
4. Vocabulary work on textual vocabulary (see list in vocabulary section). Given a list of
possible definitions, determine the meaning of new words from context sentences. Create
index cards with meaning, definition, context sentence, and sample sentence. Use FYT
as model for sentences.
5. Choose an exemplary courageous character from history. Write a description of this
person, their courageous acts, and the challenges they faced in trying to stick to their
convictions.
6. Read the poem “Casabianca” and decide if the hero of the poem is crazy or courageous.
Write a well-developed paragraph stating your opinion and providing three reasons to
support your opinion and relevant evidence from the text.
7. Read the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling and explain the author’s theme of everyday
courage. Cite passages to support your point of view. Create a visual presentation or web
page discussing the poem and citing passages.
8. Read primary source accounts or interview of several people who were courageous in an
event/time period (slavery, Titanic, Depression). Explain what experiences are similar
between the reports.
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9. Make a T-chart and label what facts/details are historical and which are fictional from the
piece of historical fiction. Use research documents to support your analysis.
10. While reading a text with a courageous character, keep a journal that answers the
following questions:
 What obstacles does the protagonist overcome?
 How does the protagonist respond to different events?
 Who is the antagonist?
 How does the character grow/change during the novel?
 What does the protagonist learn about him/herself?
 Select quotes and PPLs to support responses to each of these questions throughout the
book.
11. Select a passage that particularly demonstrates the protagonist’s courage. Select the
words and phrases that most communicate the emotion or suspense of the scene. Explain
your choices.
12. Compare two texts about courageous characters. Find similarities and cite passages with
PPLs to support your response.
13. Create a word/concept map on large paper or online that defines the word courage and
provides textual examples and/or passages/PPLs of courage from the novel.
The following ELA Common Core Standards will be referenced in the Assessments Chart:
Common Core ELA Standards Grade 6
Literary Text
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Cite textual evidence to support analysis of explicit and implicit text information.
Determine a theme or central idea and how it is conveyed through details.
Give a summary of details.
Describe plot segments and how characters change as the plot progresses.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases.
Determine figurative meaning of words and phrases.
Analyze the meaning of word choice on meaning or tone.
Analyze how a sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza contributes to theme, setting, or
plot.
9. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker.
10. Compare and contrast the experience of reading a piece and viewing or listening
to a recording/film/live performance of piece.
11. Compare and contrast pieces of the same theme but different genres.
Informational Text
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4.
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of explicit and implicit text information.
Determine a theme or central idea and how it is conveyed through details.
Give a summary of details.
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated,
and elaborated in the text (through examples or anecdotes, for example).
5. Determine the meaning of words and phrases.
6. Determine figurative meaning of words and phrases.
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7. Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the text
and contributes to the development of ideas.
8. Determine the author’s point of view and purpose and explain how it is conveyed
in the text.
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10. Integrate visual information and text to get a fuller understanding of a topic.
11. Find and contrast claims that are supported and claims that are not.
12. Compare and contrast different author’s presentation of the same topic.
Writing: To prove an argument
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Support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Organize arguments and evidence clearly.
Use credible sources.
Demonstrate a clear understanding of a topic.
Use transitional words and phrases to show the relationship between arguments.
Write with a formal style.
Conclude the argument logically.
Writing: to inform or explain
1. Organize ideas and information using text structures such as definition,
classification, compare/contrast and cause/effect.
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3. Use headings, subheadings, graphics, and multimedia to convey information
4. Use facts, definitions, details, and quotes to develop ideas.
5. Use transitional words and phrases to show the relationship between ideas.
6. Use precise language and topic specific vocabulary to develop ideas.
7. Write with a formal style.
8. Conclude the piece logically.
Writing: To develop real or imagined experiences or events
1. Introduce a narrator and characters
2. Organize an event series that unfolds logically and naturally
3. Use dialogue, pacing, and description to develop experiences, events, and
characters
4. Use transition words and phrases to signal changes in time and setting
5. Use precise words, relevant details, and sensory language
6. Provide a logical conclusion
Writing Process and Distribution
1. Produce clear coherent writing appropriate to purpose and audience
2. With guidance, plan, revise, edit writing or try new approaches
3. Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing,
collaborate with others, and be able to type three pages in one sitting.
Writing: Research
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Conduct short research projects, using several sources and refocusing as needed
Assess the credibility of sources
Quote or paraphrase without plagiarism
Create a bibliography
Write regularly for a range of purposes
Writing About Reading
1. Draw evidence from literary text to meet grade 6 literary text reading standards
and communicate these in writing
2. Draw evidence from informational text to meet grade 6 informational text reading
standards and communicate these in writing
Range
1. Write routinely for a range of time periods and purposes.
Speaking and Listening: Comprehension and Collaboration
2. Engage in collaborative discussion in 1:1, small, and whole group settings
3. Come to discussions prepared with assignments and able to use specific ideas
and evidence about the topic
4. Follow set behavioral rules for discussions
5. Contribute to the discussion with quality questions and responses
6. Paraphrase and reflect on key ideas of a discussion
7. Explain how artifacts from diverse media relate to a topic
8. Find a speakers’ main point and supporting arguments; determine if arguments
are adequately supported or not
Speaking and Listening: Presenting
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In presentations, sequence ideas logically.
In presentations, use relevant details, facts, and descriptions.
In presentations, use correct volume, pronunciation, and eye contact.
In presentations, use multimedia.
In presentations, adapt speech to the purpose.
Language: Conventions
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When speaking and writing, use pronouns correctly.
When writing, use proper punctuation and spelling.
When speaking and writing, vary sentence patterns.
When speaking and writing, maintain consistent style and tone.
Assessment Chart:
Common Core
Standards
Literary Text 6.1
Assessment Activity
Assessed Objectives
Anchor Assessment: After Students will:
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LT 6.2
LT 6.8
Arg Writ 6.1
AW6.2
AW6.4
AW6.5
AW6.6
AW6.7
Writing Proc/Dist
6.1
WPD 6.2
WPD 6.3
Writing About R.
6.1
WAR 6.2
Language Con 6.2
LC 6.3
LC 6.4
reading one of the literary
pieces about a courageous
character, write a paper
about how the character
had the courage to “follow
his or her convictions.”
LT 6.1; LT 6.11
IT 6.1
WA 6.1, 3, 4
WR 6.1, 3, 4
Compare and contrast two
courageous characters OR
a courageous and a
cowardly character.
WA 6.1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7
WPD 6. 1, 2, 3
WR 6.1, 6.2, 6.3,
6.4
LC 6.2, 3
Survivors from the Titanic
reported that musicians
played music to keep the
passengers calm while the
crew loaded the lifeboats.
Read a primary source
from a Titanic survivor and
in a well developed
paragraph, provide and
explain three reasons why
this was an act of courage.
LVAU 6.1, 2, 8
Vocabulary work on
textual vocabulary (see
lists in vocabulary section).
Vocabulary Quizzes
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Describe the character’s convictions?
Describe the challenges the character
faces in trying to follow their
convictions.
Provide specific examples from the text
to support the ideas presented.
Provide quotes and PPL’s to prove the
examples.
Edit the paper for grammar, sentence
structure, spelling and mechanics
Students will:
 Choose a character/person from fiction
or history to compare the protagonist to.
 Use the online Venn diagram tool to
create a comparison diagram.
 Provide textual examples from the
novel, primary sources, or research
materials to support the comparison.
 Create a bibliography of sources
Students will:
 Read a primary source account of the
Titanic sinking.
 Write a paragraph providing three welldeveloped reasons why the musicians
displayed courage.
 Cite the primary source
Students will:
 Given a list of possible definitions,
determine the meaning of new words
from context sentences.
 Create index cards with meaning,
definition, context sentence, and sample
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WI/E 6. 1-7
WR: 6.1-5
LC 6.2-4
Choose an exemplary
courageous character from
history. Write a
description of this person,
their courageous acts, and
the challenges they faced
in trying to stick to their
convictions.
LT 6.1, 6.2, 6.8,
6.11
WAR 6.1
Speaking/Listening:
Presenting 6.4, 6.5
Read the poem “If” by
Rudyard Kipling and
explain the author’s theme
of everyday courage. Cite
passages to support your
point of view. Create a
visual presentation or web
page discussing the poem
and citing passages.
IT 6.11
WAR 6.2
LC 6.2
Read primary source
accounts or interview of
several people who were
courageous in an
event/time period (slavery,
Titanic, Depression).
Explain what experiences
are similar between the
reports.
LT 6.3
Writing: Research
6.1
Make a T-chart and label
what facts/details are
historical and which are
fictional from the piece of
historical fiction. Use
research documents to
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sentence.
 Use FYT as model for sentences.
 Create word maps to share
Students will:
 Select an historical figure that showed
courage.
 Research courageous actions performed
by this person and obstacles they may
have faced.
 Write a description of this person, their
courageous acts, and the challenges they
faced in trying to stick to their
convictions.
 Provide a bibliography of sources.
Students will:
 Read the poem “If”
 Choose an example of everyday courage
in each passage.
 Explain in writing the example and
support it with a citation.
 Create a visual presentation or web site
that includes a digital reading of the
poem that highlights the examples and
citations.
Students will:
 Read a primary source account of 2-3
different events from the point of view
of a person living in that time and
experiencing the event.
 Create a diagram of comparisons listing
the similarities in the difficult events and
the participants’ demonstration of
courage.
 Explain these similarities in a welldeveloped paragraph that provides
examples.
 Draw conclusions about the nature of
the people involved in these events and
their show of courage.
Students will:
 Maintain a T-chart while reading their
historical novel and record details that
are fictional with those that are
historically accurate.
 Cite evidence to prove the accuracy of
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support your analysis.
historical details.
LT 6.1, 6.4
While reading a text with a
courageous character, keep
a journal that answers the
following questions:
 What obstacles does
the protagonist
overcome?
 How does the
protagonist respond
to different events?
 Who is the
antagonist?
 How does the
character
grow/change during
the novel?
 What does the
protagonist learn
about him/herself?
 Select quotes and
PPLs to support
responses to each of
these questions
throughout the book.
Students will:
 Maintain a journal throughout the
reading of the book.
 Provide answers to each question.
 Provide textual evidence, including
PPLs to support their conclusions.
LT 6.7, 6.8
Select a passage that
particularly demonstrates
the protagonist’s courage.
Select the words and
phrases that most
communicate the emotion
or suspense of the scene.
Explain your choices.
Students will:
 Select a passage that demonstrates the
protagonist’s courage.
 Choose words/phrases that heighten the
suspense of the scene, increasing the
character’s show of courage.
 Explain how each word or phrase
contributes to the suspense.
LT 6.1, 6.2, 6.11
Compare two texts about
courageous characters.
Find similarities and cite
passages with PPLs to
support your response.
LT 6.1, 6.2, 6.8
Create a word/concept map
Students will:
 Read two novels or a novel and an
informative text.
 Find examples of courage in both texts
 Cite passages with PPLs to support the
examples.
 Choose a format to communicate the
comparison and evidence.
Students will:
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on large paper or online
that defines the word
courage and provides
textual examples and/or
passages/PPLs of courage
from the novel.
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Define courage.
Provide textual examples of courage.
Include passages with PPLs to support
examples.
Represent this information on a
conceptual word map.
Literacy Vocabulary (notebooks)(include the basics of poetry)
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Antagonist
Protagonist
Character development
Historical novel
Text Vocabulary http://www.learnthat.org/teachers/portal
Chapter 1:
English Word
ingot
goldsmith
ingratiatingly
wineskin
adder
diffident
amulet
surly
brusquely
Definition
Golden Goblet Chapter One Context Sentences
1. The boy needed an ingot to make the necklace.
2. The goldsmith worked to make charms for the necklace.
3. The boy spoke ingratiatingly to his mother when he asked her if he could have a new
snowboard.
4. The adder bit the man when he picked it up.
5. The diffident girl found it difficult to speak up in class.
6. The boy brought his amulet to the race to help him win.
7. The surly man spoke meanly to everyone he saw.
8. The girl brusquely told her mother she needed to be picked up from school without even
saying hello on the phone.
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Chapter One Egyptian References:
Egyptian Word
Thebes-
Definition
capital city of Ancient Egypt, lay on both sides of the Nile River
Pharaoh –
Month of Hathor :
Lord Ra –
Ancient Egyptian ruler
It lies between November 10 and December 9. The month of Hathor is
also the third month of the Season of 'Akhet' (Inundation) in Ancient
Egypt, when the Nile floods historically covered the land of Egypt. The
name of the month comes from Hathor, the Ancient Egyptian Goddess
of Beauty and Love.
the sun
Babylonia
ancient culture in present day Iraq
neb –
ancient Egyptian word for lord or master
Maat
Kheft –
Amon –
Youth –lock –
Ka –
– goddess who controls people’s actions
evil spirit or ghost
Egyptian god
one section of hair left to grow to the shoulder
vital essence, gone when someone dies
Ptah the bearded –
Ba-
In Thebes, Ptah was believed to determine the individual destiny of the
artists there.
the personality, the part that would live on after the body died
Deben –
ancient Egyptian weight unit that transferred into currency
Chapter 2:
English Word
thronged
Definition
latter
jocular
ferociously
obsidian
spasmodically
countenance
aghast
temerity
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unprepossessing
contemptuous
cowering
vindictively
tantalizing
reproach
Golden Goblet Chapter 2 Context Sentences
1. One thousand people thronged into the theatre to see the movie.
2. If I had to choose between chocolate or vanilla ice cream, I would pick the latter.
3. The jocular student told jokes that made the whole class laugh.
4. The tiger ferociously his prey to break its neck.
5. The obsidian jewels were set in a gold ring.
6. The sick man spasmodically shook because of his high fever.
7. The excited girl had a happy countenance that showed her good mood.
8. Sam was aghast when a snake fell out of a tree and landed on his shoulders.
9. Dave showed temerity when he told his boss he wouldn’t show up to work on time.
10. The unprepossessing balding hamster was not chosen by anyone shopping in the pet
store.
11. The star athlete was contemptuous toward the boy who tripped on the basketball court.
12. The puppy began cowering after the angry girl kicked him.
13. Sally vindictively hid her sister’s favorite book after they had a big fight.
14. The tantalizing smell of chocolate drifted out of the closed candy store.
15. The boy’s father had a look of reproach on his face when the boy got a failing grade.
Chapter Two Egyptian References:
Egyptian Term
Valley of the
Tombs of the Kings
City of the Dead
Artisan, laboror,
and apprentice
Definition
valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to
11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful
nobles
artisans there made most of the things that the Egyptians thought the dead
needed
Artisans are skilled workers
Laborers worked for them for money
Apprentices work with them to learn the trade
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Shenti –
a skirt Egyptian men wore
Papyrus
Reed like plant used to make “paper”
Osiris the Merciful
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Osiris is not only a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the
underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation
and the fertile flooding of the Nile River
Eye of Horus –
Evil eye
an Ancient Egyptian symbol of protection and power against evil.
– believed harm could be cause by someone looking at you with their
magical eye
Chapter 3:
English Word
fleet
Definition
jubilant
obliterated
buoyant
solemn
scribe
solder
bungling
dullard
obeisance
misgivings
mollified
rapt
contagion
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Chapter 3 Vocab Context Sentences
1. The fleet runner won the race easily.
2. The jubilant crowd laughed loudly at the comedian’s jokes.
3. The truck obliterated the side of the building when it crashed.
4. The girl felt buoyant after learning she had won the chess championship.
5. The solemn man did not enjoy the happy mood of the party.
6. The scribe recorded all the notes from the meeting.
7. The welder used solder to fix the broken lamp.
8. The bungling chef dropped the salad on the floor.
9. The dullard tried to buy postage stamps on Sunday.
10. The man showed obeisance when he cleaned his boss’s shoes with his own shirt.
11. The parents had misgivings about letting their kids attend the concert alone.
12. The woman was mollified after the computer company agreed to return her money for the
defective stereo.
13. The kids’ rapt attention during the movie kept them very quiet.
14. A contagion spread in school and soon everyone had a fever.
Chapter 4-6:
English Word
CHAPTER 4:
Definition
scrupulously
alcove
wraithlike
irascibly
peremptorily
CHAPTER 5:
ostensibly
abide
jostled
obsequious
disdainfully
torrent
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CHAPTER 6:
sarcophagi
alabaster
disdain
disconsolately
interminable
sullen
furtive
incredulous
Chapter 4-6 Vocab Context Sentences
1. Sam scrupulously glued the broken vase back together.
2. The painting was hung in a small alcove in the living room.
3. The wraithlike creature haunted the castle halls.
4. The man irascibly yelled at the kids for running on his lawn.
5. Sally’s boss peremptorily told her to make copies of the contracts.
6. The boy went to the movies, ostensibly to see the latest Harry Potter movie.
7. Drivers have to abide by the speed limit or get a ticket.
8. The excited dogs jostled the little boy around until he fell down.
9. The obsequious man drove all the way across town for the coffee his boss demanded.
10. The woman disdainfully stepped over the garbage lying all over the sidewalk.
11. A torrent of rain caused a flood.
12. The sarcophagi held the mummies of long-dead Pharaohs.
13. The sculptor used alabaster to make a statue of the Pharaoh.
14. The winning team felt disdain for their losing competitors.
15. The losing team disconsolately walked off the basketball court.
16. The boy thought his father’s lecture was interminable.
17. The sullen girl refused to smile even when given a chocolate cupcake.
18. The boy made a furtive attempt to read the note from his friend in class.
19. The girl was incredulous when she was told aliens had landed in her front yard.
Chapter 7-9:
English Word
CHAPTER 7:
Definition
desiccated
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respite
lithe
belligerent
amiable
judiciously
defiant
voluminous
CHAPTER 8:
scornfully
imbecile
pervading
austere
selfrecrimination
keen
aptitude
diligence
creditable
CHAPTER 9:
precarious
stolidly
Chapter 7-9 vocabulary context sentences
1. The frogs all had to leave the desiccated pond.
2. The girls needed a respite from basketball practice, so the coach gave them a day off.
3. The lithe gymnast did three backbends in a row.
4. The belligerent toddler refused to pick up her toys, so she got a time-out from her mother.
5. The amiable girl talked freely to everyone in her class.
6. The boy judiciously decided to study for the difficult math test.
7. The defiant dog ran away when her master called her.
8. The boy was upset by the voluminous amount of homework he had to do.
9. The girl looked scornfully at her broccoli soup and asked for pizza.
10. The man acted like an imbecile when he spilled his dinner all over his shirt at the
restaurant.
11. The pervading smell of garbage was obvious at the town landfill.
12. The austere man refused to smile at his grandson’s jokes.
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13. The girl couldn’t stop her self-recrimination when she failed the test after deciding not to
study.
14. The man’s keen eye saw the deer in the woods immediately.
15. The girl showed aptitude for math, so she decided to become an engineer.
16. The boy’s diligence in practicing the clarinet made him a very good player.
17. The girl’s creditable artwork won her a space in the local museum.
18. The man’s position on the rock was precarious and he started to fall.
19. The woman stolidly sat through the sad movie without crying.
Chapter 10-12
English Word
CHAPTER 10:
Definition
doggedly
intermittent
staccato
enigmatic
fiasco
audacious
CHAPTER 11:
laconically
preoccupation
rogue
CHAPTER 12:
tactfully
accord
abruptly
idly
convulsively
Chapter 10-12 Context Sentences
1. The boy doggedly practiced for the basketball try-outs because he was worried he would
not make the team.
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2. The girls were able to play soccer in between the intermittent rainfall.
3. The staccato buzzing of the alarm clock woke the man at 5:00 am.
4. Everyone in the small town talked about the strange and enigmatic man who recently
moved to the town.
5. The picnic was a fiasco – it rained, the tent blew away, and all the food got soaked.
6. The man’s friends begged him not to try his audacious plan to climb the steep cliff
without climbing gear.
7. The tired girl laconically responded to her friend’s attempts to start a conversation.
8. The preschooler’s preoccupation with dinosaurs was obvious from the dinosaur clothes,
toys, and books spread all over his bedroom.
9. The rogue planned to break into the bank and steal all the gold in the safe.
10. The girl tactfully told her friend her ugly sweater was nice.
11. No one asked the boy to wash his father’s car; he did it of his own accord.
12. The car stopped abruptly, making the riders glad they were wearing seatbelts.
13. The boys idly watched television all Saturday afternoon.
14. The nervous girl convulsively shook her foot while waiting to see the dentist.
Chapter 13-16
English Word
CHAPTER 13:
Definition
disclosed
furrowed
desolate
ominously
hordes
consternation
transfixed
cumbersomely
retinues
restive
dubious
CHAPTER 14:
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futile
citadel
necropolis
callous
diligence
CHAPTER 15:
bedecking
insolent
plundered
overseer
indifferently
coherent
pattering
CHAPTER 16
rash
timbre
exquisitely
clad
Chapter 13-16 context sentences
1. The map disclosed the location of the buried treasure.
2. The boy’s furrowed brow told his father he was very worried about something.
3. The desolate cabin did not even have any mice living in it.
4. The lightening was coming ominously closer to the swimmers.
5. Hordes of people waited to get into the concert.
6. The girl stared with consternation at the confusing math homework.
7. The group was transfixed by the sight of the celebrity walking down the street.
8. The boy cumbersomely tripped over his shoelaces and fell.
9. The queen was accompanied by her retinues, awaiting her commands.
10. The restive toddlers could not watch the movie without running around.
11. It is dubious that it will snow in July in Florida.
12. The boy made a futile attempt to open the locked car door.
13. The soldiers guarded the opening to the citadel where the gold was stored.
14. The huge cemetery was a necropolis with many gravestones.
15. The callous people left litter on someone’s lawn after the parade.
16. The kids were bedecking the float before the homecoming parade.
17. The insolent girl got in trouble after rolling her eyes at her father.
18. The plundered jewels were hidden in a cave where the police couldn’t find them.
19. The overseer watched the workers build the pyramid.
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20. The girl indifferently shrugged when asked what movie she wanted to watch.
21. The baby’s speech was not coherent – it was just babbling.
22. The pattering of the little boy annoyed his older brother.
23. It is rash to speed on icy roads.
24. The timbre of the girl’s voice was whiny and nasally.
25. The Miss America contestants were dressed exquisitely in evening gowns.
26. The kids were clad in Halloween costumes.
The Golden Goblet Chapter One Vocabulary and Terms Quiz
Name _________________________________
Match the letter of the definition with each English word or Egyptian term.
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1. ________ingratiatingly
a. the sun
2. ________amulet
b. lives on after the body dies
3. ________brusquely
c. bag made from the skin of an animal
4. ________ingot
d. evil spirit
5. ________wineskin
e. ancient Egyptian currency unit
6. ________diffident
f. Egyptian god
7. ________goldsmith
g. brings good luck
8. ________adder
h. determines the destiny of artists
9. ________surly
i. block of some metal
10. ________Month of Hathor
j. ancient culture in present day Iraq
11. ________Ptah the Bearded
k. grumpy
12. ________pharaoh
l. gone when person dies
13. ________Babylonia
m. shy
14. ________ba
n. works with gold
15. ________Thebes
o. when the Nile River floods
16. ________Maat
p. intended to gain favor
17. ________neb
q. long section of hair
18. ________Lord Ra
r. snake
19. ________kheft
s. rudely
20. ________deben
t. ancient Egyptian ruler
21. ________ka
u. goddess who controls people’s actions
22. ________youth-lock
v. capital city
23. ________Amon
w. lord or master
The Golden Goblet Chapter 2 and 3 Vocabulary Quiz
Name ________________________________
Match the letter of the definition with the correct vocabulary word.
1. ______ obsidian
a. quick
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2. ______cowering
b. last of several choices
3. ______scribe
c. face
4. ______mollified
d. crouching to avoid danger
5. ______countenance
e. joking
6. ______reproach
f. not being sure
7. ______thronged
g. crowded
8. ______jocular
h. passes from person to person
9. ______contagion
i. someone who writes
10. ______temerity
j. suddenly or violently
11. ______spasmodically
k. disapproval
12. ______solemn
l. extreme attention
13. ______contemptuous
m. feeling like floating
14. ______tantalizing
n. shiny and black
15. ______misgivings
o. unattractive
16. ______fleet
p. making mistakes
17. ______obliterated
q. serious
18. ______aghast
r. too much confidence
19. ______vindictively
s. happy
20. ______jubilant
t. destroyed
21. ______rapt
u. something you want but can’t have
22. ______latter
v. have your annoyance taken away
23. ______buoyant
w. done to cause harm
24. ______bungling
x. scornful
25. ______unprepossessing
y. horrified
The Golden Goblet chapter 4-6 Vocabulary Quiz
Name _______________________________________
1. _________ peremptorily
a. seems like one thing, but is another
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2. _________ sarcophagi
b. a rush
3. _________ irascibly
c. spirit
4. _________obsequious
d. very carefully
5. _________sullen
e. quick
6. _________alcove
f. angrily
7. _________disconsolately
g. gloomy and silent
8. _________disdainfully
h. follow
9. _________scrupulously
i. sadly
10._________ ostensibly
j. hidden
11. _________alabaster
k. bumped around
12. _________ jostled
l. in a commanding tone
13. _________torrent
m. small open area
14. _________wraithlike
n. too servile
15. _________ abide
o. feeling of disgust
16. _________furtive
p. disbelieving
17. _________ incredulous
q. stone coffins
18. _________ interminable
r. endless
19. _________ latter
s. white stone used for sculpting
20. _________ fleet
t. last of several choices
The Golden Goblet Chapter 7-9 Vocabulary Quiz
Name ____________________________________________
1. ________ amiable
a. stern and cold
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2. ________ keen
b. flexible
3. ________precarious
c. wisely
4. ________lithe
d. hard work
5. ________scornfully
e. friendly
6. ________desiccated
f. likely to fail
7. ________pervading
g. rest
8. ________diligence
h. sharp
9. ________stolidly
i. refusing
10. ________judiciously
j. blaming yourself
11. ________voluminous
k. dried up
12. ________self-recrimination
l. stubborn
13. ________creditable
m. showing clear dislike
14. ________respite
n. showing no emotion
15. ________belligerent
o. acts foolish
16. ________defiant
p. large
17. ________imbecile
q. spread throughout
18. ________austere
r. ability
19. ________aptitude
s. deserving of praise
The Golden Goblet Chapter 7-12 Vocabulary Quiz
Name ________________________________________
1. ________ judiciously
a. blaming yourself
2. ________scornfully
b. worthy of praise
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3. ________self-recrimination
c. ability
4. ________diligence
d. rest
5. ________ precarious
e. wisely
6. ________respite
f. spread throughout
7. ________pervading
g. stubborn
8. ________keen
h. showing clear dislike
9. ________belligerent
i. sharp
10. ________aptitude
j. hard work
11. ________creditable
k. likely to fail
12. ________enigmatic
l. said using a minimum of words
13. ________laconically
m. stubborn determination
14. ________tactfully
n. dangerous and dishonest person
15. ________convulsively
o. doing nothing
16. ________doggedly
p. short disconnected sounds
17. ________intermittent
q. complete failure
18. ________audacious
r. mysterious
19. ________preoccupation
s. free will
20. ________accord
t. not continuous
21. ________fiasco
u. foolishly dangerous
22. ________staccato
v. extreme focus on something
23. ________rogue
w. avoids hurting someone’s feelings
24. ________abruptly
x. suddenly
25. ________idly
y. quick movements
The Golden Goblet Chapter 13-16 Quiz
Name _________________________________________
1. ________ retinues
2. ________bedecking
a. doubtful
b. wrinkled
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3. ________hordes
4. ________desolate
5. ________exquisitely
6. ________indifferently
7. ________consternation
8. ________citadel
9. ________dubious
10. ________plundered
11. ________futile
12. ________disclosed
13. ________coherent
14. ________rash
15. ________transfixed
16. ________cumbersomely
17. ________necropolis
18. ________callous
19. ________insolent
20. ________furrowed
21. ________ominously
22. ________overseer
23. ________pattering
24. ________timbre
25. ________clad
26. ________restive
c. extremely focused
d. care nothing for others’ feelings
e. rude
f. fortress
g. decorating
h. revealed
i. loud crowd
j. fidgety
k. stolen
l. don’t care
m. sound of a voice
n. dressed
o. someone in charge
p. useless
q. empty
r. dangerously
s. confusion and worry
t. clumsily
u. followers
v. make sense
w. acts without thinking
x. beautifully
y. speaking quickly
z. land of the dead
THE CARTOON “DID YOU READ?”
QUIZ
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Please draw a six-cell cartoon in the space provided below about something you found interesting,
memorable, or meaningful in your reading assignment. Feel free to use stick figures and captions if you’re
not feeling like Charles Schultz (the cartoonist behind Peanuts ) today. You will be graded on your ability
to capture the big ideas and details from your reading in cartoon form.
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COMIC TITLE:
YOUR NAME/BY:
On the back of this paper please write down a passage/quote from the text that you found interesting,
memorable, meaningful or problematic. Below your passage please explain WHY the text you chose is
important in two to four sentences. The quote should be from a different part of the text then the section
you illustrated above.
VR words: Root/mem/to remember/commemorate/memorial/remember
Literacy Plan: Detail week-by-week plans here
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