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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 1 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for Chapter 1: Night in the Forest
- Where does the story begin? What is the setting?
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- With whom is Sarah traveling?
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- Where are Sarah and her father traveling?
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- Why can Sarah not get to sleep?
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- Why did Sarah go with her father?
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- What did Sarah’s mother tell her before she left?
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- Why did her mother say it to her?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 2 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 2: Night in the Settlement
- With whom did Sarah and her father stay?
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- Do you think the family could have been more welcoming? How?
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- How did Mrs. Robinson feel about Sarah traveling with her father?
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- Why did Sarah become scared?
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- Why do you think Sarah wanted her cloak back when she was going to sleep?
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- Do you think the Native Americans will be friendly to Sarah and her father? Why?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 3 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 3: Down the Long Hill
- Where do Sarah and her father plan to live while they build a house?
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- How will Thomas help build the house?
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- Why do you think Sarah asks her father not to shoot the deer?
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- What does Sarah think when she first sees the valley where their house will be built
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- How does Sarah’s father view the Native Americans?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 4 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 4: Night in the Cave
- Where did Sarah and her father sleep for the night?
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- What did they eat?
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- When Sarah hears the noises at night, was she afraid or is she helping her father not be afraid? Why do you think so?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 5 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 5: Indians
- What did John Noble do to make the cave comfortable and safe?
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- Why do you think Sarah did not want her father to leave to go build the house?
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- Why did Sarah hold back her tears until her father had left?
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- What possessions would you want to have with you in the cave if you were Sarah?
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- What happened while Sarah was sitting and reading to herself?
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- How do you think Sarah felt?
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- What book did Sarah read to the children?
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- What happened when Sarah was talking to the children?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 6 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 6: Friends
- How did Sarah try to teach the Native American children English? Was she successful?
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- What did the Native American children do for Sarah?
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- What did Sarah and her father get when the traded with the Native Americans?
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- Who will help Sarah’s father with the house?
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- When Sarah asked to go to with the Native American children to their houses, why did her father put his head down? What was he feeling and why?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 7 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 7: Keep up your courage…
- What time of the year was the house finished?
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- Why is her father leaving?
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- How does Sarah feel about her father leaving?
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- Where was she to stay while her father was gone?
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- Do you think there will be an attack from the northern Native American tribes? Why or why not?
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- If you were Sarah how would you feel staying back?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 8 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 8: In the Indian House
- Does Sarah like Tall John’s wife’s cooking? How do you know?
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- What are the differences between the way Tall John’s family eats and Sarah’s family?
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- What does Sarah do before she goes to bed?
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- For whom does Sarah pray?
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- Tell about a time when you have stayed away from your family. How did you feel? How was it different?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 9 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 9: Night of Fear
- What did Sarah help the Native Americans do?
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- What did the Native American women make for Sarah?
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- Why did Sarah become afraid?
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- Did the Native Americans from the north attack?
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- What did Sarah hear in the night?
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- Who was standing over Sarah when she was playing with the children?
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- What did Sarah do before she left with her father and Tall John?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 10 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 10: Sarah Goes Home
- Who brings Sarah home? And how?
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- How is Sarah feeling? How do you know?
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- What did Sarah’s family do that day?
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- How do you think Sarah might have felt if her mother hadn’t brought her doll, Arabella?
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Comprehension Questions for The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Please read chapter 11 and answer the following questions using a complete sentence in your best handwriting.
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Questions for chapter 11: Night in the Log House
- Why was Sarah’s mother upset that John had left Sarah with the Native Americans?
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- Why do you think Mrs. Noble doesn’t believe the Tall John’s wife could be as good of a
housekeeper or mother as she is?
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- Why did Sarah hang her cloak on the peg?
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- Why is it important that Sarah’s courage always be with her?
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- What do you think will happen next with Sarah and her family?
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Vocabulary Chapter 1
Cloak
Courage
Musket
Fussing
Vocabulary- Chapter 2
Settlement
Latch
Heathen
Savages
Timidly
Vocabulary- Chapter 3
Harness
Hut
Solemn
Coarse
Misty
Wearily
Vocabulary- Chapter 4
Coast
Johnnycake
Porridge
Wove
Plots
Woodchuck
Vocabulary-Chapter 5
Steadily
Namesake
Rustling
Clink
Palisade
Petticoats
Impatience
Vocabulary- Chapter 6
Serious
Mortar
Pestle
Saddle bags
Vocabulary- Chapter 7
Scarlet
Squaw
Mush
Strides
Mounting
Vocabulary- Chapter 8
Cornsilk
Choked
Great Spirit
Wasting
Vocabulary- Chapter 9
Moccasins
Disturbance
Scarcely
Crinkled
Tiresome
Dew
Vocabulary-Chapter 10
Quivers
Unsteady
Knelt
Outlandish
Vocabulary- Chapter 11
Cozy
Wigwams
Housekeeper
Height