Directions:  Fill in each blank with the word that best completes
the reading comprehension.

     Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride
of Paul Revere...
     This is the beginning of a famous poem by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow. It tells the story of a man who risked
his life for the colonists. Paul Revere was this man. He rode his
horse through the countryside of Massachusetts to warn the
citizens that British troops were on the march. But who was this
man?
     Paul Revere was born in January of 1735 in Boston, Massachusetts. His (1)  _______________________   (2)  _______________________   was in Boston. He fought for the British against the French in the French and Indian War. He followed his father in the silversmith (3)  _______________________  . A (4)  _______________________   takes metal and turns it into works of art and tools. He made teapots, trays, tools for surgery, frames for glasses, and created pictures by (5)  _______________________   acid onto copper. He even replaced teeth for people when they lost them.
     Paul Revere made friends with many of the men who were the fathers of the liberty movement in the colonies. He became a member of the "Sons of Liberty" and took (6)  _______________________   in the Boston Tea Party.
     By 1775, the colonists wanted the king to stop making rules for them. The British king did not like the colonists to (7)  _______________________   him. He ordered his soldiers to (8)  _______________________   John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Hancock and Adams left Boston and rode to the town of Concord to (9)  _______________________   arrest. When the colonists learned that the British soldiers were on the move, they sent Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott to warn their leaders and to protect the guns and ammunition colonists had hidden in Concord. Each of the three men was to ride through the (10)  _______________________   and warn the citizens. Revere sent a spy to a tavern in Boston where many of the British soldiers liked to visit. The spy found out (11)  _______________________   route the British were taking to Concord and set out to let Revere know the (12)  _______________________  . Revere rowed himself across the Charles River and waited on his horse to see what the spy had found out. The man was to put one lantern in the steeple of the Old North Church if the soldiers were coming by a land route. He was to put two lanterns if the soldiers would be sailing across the bay on ships. Revere saw two lanterns and knew the British would be coming by (13)  _______________________  . William Dawes had started riding earlier in the day by another route. Both he and Revere rode all night (14)  _______________________   the people. They met at Lexington and warned Hancock and Adams to move on to Concord. Unfortunately, Revere and Dawes were spotted by a British patrol, stopped, and their horses taken away. The other rider, Dr. Prescott, avoided the British and was able to finish the ride to Concord. Paul Revere didn't do the job all by himself. He had a lot of help. But we remember him. He has become a symbol of courage for our emerging (15)  _______________________  .

Paul Revere

Essay Questions 

1. How do you suppose people communicated with each other during colonial times?

2. There were no cameras during this time. Where did the pictures we have of events come from?
    

Word Hunt

Use the following syllables to fill in the blanks and form words. Cross off each syllable after you use it.

Circle the correct way to divide the word into syllables.

Crack the code!
Write the real word that each of the codes represent. Each letter in the real word has been changed to another letter. For example, a B in the code might really mean C. Once you figure out the code for one letter, the same code is used for all the words on this sheet.