Vocabulary
Rude or Uncivil
What is impertinent?
A minstrel/messenger who delivered Robin's letter to his father.
Who is John-go-in-the-Wynd?
A fortified tower within the walls of the castle.
What is a keep?
The time period and setting of the story.
What is England in the 14th century during the reign of Edward III.
This is the activity Robin practiced to make the days go by faster.
What is whittling?
Opening
What is embrasure?
The friar of St. Mark's who is caring for Robin.
Who is Brother Luke?
One of the most devastating illnesses in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Europe.
What is the plague/Black Death?
Robin made this with the pine wood.
What is a toy boat?
This is where Robin was to go and who took him.
Where is the Castle of Sir Peter de Lindsay with Brother Luke and John-go-in-the-Wynd?
Showing great enthusiasm or passion
What is fervently?
Wife to Sir Peter.
Who is Lady Constance?
A pie filled with meat or fish.
What is a pasty?
Robin's father's letter said this.
*Hint: Name three things Robin's father had said.
What is 1) updates on the war 2) the plague and 3) Robin's mother
The length of the journey from Saint Mark's to the Castle of Sir Peter de Lindsay.
Showing sorrow or pity
What is ruefully?
One of Sir Peter's archers at Lindsay.
Who is Adam the bowman?
A puppet show Robin watched at the fair.
What is Punch and Judy?
This is why Robin was worried about meeting Sir Peter and Lady Constance.
Robin was worried about meeting them because he is crippled and knows that he will make a sorry page.
Who SAID it?
"Crookshanks, here, is as fast as any of us..."
Who is Geoffrey?
Alongside
What is abreast?
The knight Robin serves as a page; Godfather to Robin.
Who is Sir Peter de Lindsay?
An officer in a monastery.
Who is a prior?
This is what Brother Luke gave Robin to occupy his time with.
What is some pine wood to whittle?
Who SAID it?
"Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it."
Who is Brother Luke to Robin.