Call it Courage

by Armstrong Sperry

Call It Courage

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Book Information

Publication Date: 1940


Reading Level: Lexile Measure 830L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level X


Interest Level: Grades 6 - 8


Major Awards: 1941 Newbery Medal


Number of Pages: 117 pages


Approximate Word Count: 39,040 words


Audible Book Length: 1 hr and 57 mins


Book Themes: Courage, Overcoming Fear, Trying Hard to Succeed


Genre: legendary adventure


Setting: Polynesian Islands in the South Pacific (Hikueru Island)


Important Quote: And the voice of the reef seemed pitched for his ears alone; it seemed to say: ‘You cheated me once, Mafatu, but someday, someday I will claim you!


First Line: IT HAPPENED many years ago, before the traders and missionaries first came into the South Seas, while the Polynesians were still great in numbers and fierce of heart.


Point of View: limited third-person point of view

 

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Vocabulary List

adze
aerial
apprehension
ascending
assault
atoll
awe
ballast
basalt
benign
bide
bonito
buoyancy
cauterize
clamber
conflagration
deftly
desolation
despairing
dismal
ebb
elation
envious
extricate
falter
fledgling
forbidding
frigate

giddy
guttural
heckle
hone
impending
imperceptibly
impetus
implacable
impotent
intimacy
iridescence
irresolute
islet
jibe
lagoon
legion
livid
luminous
lurk
marrow
millrace
missionaries
multitude
mutter
naught
nimbly
ominous
outrigger
perilous

pinnacle
plash
polyp
premonition
profoundly
prostrate
rampart
rend
resolution
respite
rout
scorn
scruff
serenely
shoal
slew
solitude
squall
stifling
sultry
summation
sustenance
thrum
thwart
tumult
veritable
wile
zephyr

 

 

Comprehension Questions



The interactive quizzes linked below were created a number of years ago. Most of the quiz questions are detail/knowledge level questions. Because of this, I decided not to rewrite them to include in the unit I was creating to sell for Teachers pay Teachers. Instead I am leaving them as they were originally written for your free use. The interactive quizzes pair extremely well with my Call It Courage Book Unit which contains higher level questions in a multiple choice and short answer format as well as constructed response questions.

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Call It Courage

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Call It Courage