An Instructional Guide for Literature: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
An Instructional Guide for Literature: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Author: Charles Aracich

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-03-01

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1480769649

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Use this guide to follow along as Cassie Logan discovers and experiences the injustices of racial prejudice in the American South during the 1930s. This instructional guide for literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this exciting story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support the Common Core State Standards and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Author: Mildred D. Taylor

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-04-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1101657944

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Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect. * "[A] vivid story.... Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence."—Booklist, starred review

Literature Circle Guide
Literature Circle Guide

Author: Rebecca DeAngelis Callan

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780439355360

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Suggested activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0385382952

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Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions

Author: Charles Aracich

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13: 1480769673

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Students analyze Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Leveled Comprehension Questions
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Leveled Comprehension Questions

Author: Charles Aracich

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 1480769665

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These leveled discussion questions about Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Studying the Story Elements
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Studying the Story Elements

Author: Charles Aracich

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 5

ISBN-13: 1480769703

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Students will enjoy studying the story elements of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Through these engaging activities, students create products to share their understanding of characters, plots, and settings of the short stories in the book.

Teaching Banned Books
Teaching Banned Books

Author: Pat R. Scales

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2001-06

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780838908075

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As a standard-bearer for intellectual freedom, the school librarian is in an ideal position to collaborate with teachers to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books with valuable lessons are not quarantined from the readers for whom they were written.