Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor is a book about what it was like to be black before the civil rights movement. This book is historical fiction and would be a great way to teach students about what the time was like back then. I think that any child could relate to the adventures Cassie and her brothers embark in, but most children wouldn’t think that they would get into as much trouble. I think that the part of the story when Cassie walks into Lillian Jean Simms and then is made to apologize is an event in which children would be outraged to find out that Cassie was treated so badly.
Web Resources for Teachers:
- This website is great; it has chapter by chapter summaries, activities, 4 lessons, comprehension questions and so much more for Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry!
- This is another great website. It has all sorts of teaching materials, from online vocabulary, to teaching about the Jim Crow laws, study guides, and so much more!
Vocabulary:
Chapter 1- meticulously, concession, intriguing, admonished, billowed, raucous, pensively, plantation, barren, emaciated, morosely, amiably, disdainfully, loitering, confederacy, gleaned, traverse, tarpaulin, dubious, monotonously, temerity, indignant, chignon, maverick, imperiously, scoffed, Chapter 2- Sinewy, gusto, chiffonier, Chapter 3- resiliency, dejected, coddling, flippantly, veered, dismayed, relent, drastic stealthily, bypassing, hastened, careened, dismally, defiantly, haggard, listlessly, adamantly, transfixed, Chapter 4- expounding, discourse, haughtily, prevailed, feigned, ploy, chided, aloof, discretely, rekindle, beckoned, momentarily, engrossed, vaguely, tenant, Reconstruction, ransacked, reaped, fidgeting, warily, guttural, wizened, patronize, Chapter 5- solemnly, subdued, envisioned, verandas, promenading, mercantile, malevolently, sullenly, ambled, faltered, Chapter 6- balked, bewildered, reprimand, retaliated, vanity, Chapter 7- locusts, goaded, aristocracy, wry, sneer, Chapter 8- irritably, sentinel, jovial, sauntered, satchel, prophesied, condemning, indignant, distastefully, Chapter 9- persnickety, amenities, scoffed, agitated, despairingly, Chapter 10- shroud, lethargically, reproachfully, revival, reluctantly, jauntily, desolately, Chapter 11-despicible, grimacing, vulnerability, akimbo, crescendo, Chapter 12- kerosene lamp, traipsing, menacingly.
* Since there are so many words at the beginning I may give the definitions to some of the words and have them find the definitions to the rest. I would also have them write all of these words in sentences, chapter by chapter, but for the first 5chapters I would only have them write sentences for ten of the words.
Before Reading Activity: Teach the students a mini-lesson about slavery and how even when the slaves became free, that they were still treated poorly. Also teach the students that they were harshly discriminated against. In addition to the mini-lesson right before beginning the book I would make sure that I have already taught about slavery. I would also teach them about Jim Crow laws and I would use the website above for that.
During reading activity: Invite the students, in a group discussion to make text-to-self connections to their lives. Also encourage them to make text-to-world connections, to what the world is like today and what it was like when there was segregation.
After Reading: After reading the book and class discussions on the book throughout, I would hand out the following essay:
You will have 45 minutes to complete this essay:
After reading Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor write a persuasive essay on why you think the Jim Crow Laws should be eliminated.
*I will give them a 45 minute time constraint so they know what it feels like to only have 45 minutes, since in the CMTs in 7th and 8th grade they will have to write a persuasive piece in that amount of time.
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