Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry By: Mildred Taylor. Anticipation Guide Responding to the following statements. Choose one statement and in your journal write.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry By: Mildred Taylor

Anticipation Guide Responding to the following statements. Choose one statement and in your journal write a one paragraph response justifying why you agree or disagree with the statement. When you are done staple the anticipation guide in your journal. We will be returning to these statements throughout the novel.

1. No child should have to use school books that are falling apart.Agree ________Disagree _______ 2. Helping a homeless person can be dangerous.Agree ________Disagree _______ 3. People from different races should be treated differently than people of your own race.Agree ________Disagree _______ 4. If you are kind to others, they will be kind to you.Agree ________Disagree _______ 5. If someone does something to you, it is okay to get even.Agree ________Disagree _______ 6. Discrimination and prejudice are the same thing.Agree ________Disagree _______ 7. If you live a good life, good things will happen to you.Agree ________Disagree _______ 8. Honesty is always the best policy.Agree ________Disagree _______ 9. Sometimes it is okay to do something just because everyone else is doing it.Agree ________Disagree _______ 10. It is foolish to risk all that one owns for the goodness of others.Agree ________Disagree _______ 11. It would be better to stay home than to walk a great distance to and from school each day.Agree ________Disagree _______ 12. If you allow someone to mistreat you then you have no self-respectAgree ________Disagree _______

Based on the following images what do you think life was like in the South in the 1930? Record your answer in your journal under your paragraph response to the anticipation guide.

Setting 1933 Mississippi U.S. undergoing The Great Depression Segregation of Whites and Minorities/ Jim Crow Laws/ Jim Crow Laws The South was still mainly rural. Many black families were sharecroppers. sharecroppers Racial prejudice and hatred / “Nightriders” or “Ku Klux Klan”Ku Klux Klan Next

Ku Klux Klan White supremacy organization Terrorized blacks and anyone sympathetic to helping blacks gain equality. Responsible for lynching, murders, torture, etc. Back

Jim Crow Laws Designed to prevent Black citizens from achieving equality. – “It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.” —Birmingham, Alabama, 1930 – “Marriages are void when one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese, or Chinese blood.” —Nebraska, 1911 – “Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.” —Missouri, 1929 Back

Sharecropping The sharecropper was a freed slave, poor black, or poor white who owned no land after the Civil War. Agreed to work a parcel of land owned by someone else, with the "rent" in the form of a share of the crop at harvest time. Owner provided the land, seed, and tools, and claimed perhaps half the crop. Often, the sharecropper ended up in constant debt, and in a situation not much better than slavery. Back

Main Character Cassie Logan nine-year-old narrator of story. Family is one of few black families to own land. Doesn’t understand racism and why she is treated unfairly.

Themes The importance of family The importance of land The importance of self-respect and respect of others