◼︎ Chapter 4 / Chapter IV

  1. Chapter 4 is a short chapter.

    • How many days are reported in Chapter 4?

  2. What is the Hartsborn?

    • How do you know?

  3. What did the Hartsborn carry below deck?

  4. The Hartsborn is sailing from Newport to New York.

    • What colony (now a state) is Newport in?

    • Hint: Scroll down to see map below

  5. Where is Isabel and Ruth’s father from?

    • See if you can name both the country and the continent.

    • Take a look at map below.

  6. Where was Isabel and Ruth’s mother born?

    • Take a look at map below.

  7. “Momma said that ghosts couldn’t move over water.”

    • What might she mean by that?

    • How might things be different if ghosts could move over water?

  8. BONUS: Write a question for this chapter.

    • Answer your own question.


• A “packet boat.”


• Town of Newport


• Original 13 colonies


• Google Earth showing Guinea (Africa), Jamaica, New York and Newport.


Guinea is on the west coast of the African continent.


Jamaica is south of Florida, in the Caribbean Sea.