The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Chapter 1 PDF
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This A-Plus study guide includes a set of questions about the novel "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", specifically focusing on the first chapter. The questions delve into the setting, the characters, and the significance of specific sentences and phrases. It includes questions about important concepts, such as defining what readers learn, understanding the setting, or explaining specific narrative details.
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An Important Warning 1. Explain what the reader learns during the first sentence. 2. What is the setting of this story? 3. What does the narrator mean when she says her name “was” Charlotte Doyle? 4. Explain Charlotte’s “destiny” based on the time period. 5. Why did Charlotte spend the last sev...
An Important Warning 1. Explain what the reader learns during the first sentence. 2. What is the setting of this story? 3. What does the narrator mean when she says her name “was” Charlotte Doyle? 4. Explain Charlotte’s “destiny” based on the time period. 5. Why did Charlotte spend the last seven years in England? 6. Where is Charlotte’s true home? 7. Summarize the reasons why Charlotte did not travel home with her family. 8. Who are Charlotte’s guardians for the trip? 9. “I saw the forthcoming voyage as all a lark: A large beautiful boat!” Based on context clues, what does the word “lark” mean? 10. What instructions did Charlotte’s father give her for the journal? Chapter 1 – 1. Which word in the first sentence helps the reader figure out the point of view? Explain. 2. Why did Charlotte’s father hire Mr. Grummage? 3. How did Mr. Grummage learn that the Seahawk wasn’t cancelled as was rumored? 4. At the sound of Captain Jaggery’s name, the man carrying Charlotte’s trunk put it down and refused to go any further, even for twice the sum. What does this tell you about the captain? 5. A second man is hired to carry Charlotte’s bag, and the same thing happens. What tone does his actions help set? 6. When Charlotte saw the figurehead of the white seahawk on the ship, she says it "looked more like an angry, avenging angel than a docile bird." What is she emphasizing with this simile? 7. Which plans fell through? Explain. 8. What motivated Mr. Grummage to put Charlotte on the ship despite the obstacles? 9. What is unusual about Charlotte’s travel? 10. Explain what this statement from Charlotte foreshadows: "To say that I was unduly alarmed when I examined the Seahawk would be nonsense. I had not the remotest superstitious notion of what was to come."
