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These two photos of sharecroppers
are from the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection.
First journal
entry:
As
your first journal entry, complete the following in response
to each photo:
1. What adjectives would you use to describe the person(s)
and scene in this photo?
2. What emotions does this photo cause you to feel?
3. Write a caption for each photo that you believe is true
to your "reading" of it.
4. Take one of the people in one of the two photos and write
a paragraph from this person's perspective, showing his/her
thoughts and emotions.
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For the next month and a half, while we
are reading Roll of Thunder, we will be learning
about the time in which it took place. Each of you will be
part of a group whose goal it is to teach the rest of us more
about one of the following: Jim Crow laws and etiquette, the
Ku Klux Klan, or the Great Depression. We will post some of
your information on this resource page.
We will also be discussing
Roll of Thunder with Mr. Newton's 7th grade class
at Twinfield online using WebBoard. Each of you will be responsible
for responding at least once to each question posted in this
forum.
About the author:
In her author's note, written in 1976, Mildred D. Taylor writes
of her father, who had just died, as a "master storyteller"
who helped inspire her as a writer and storyteller. Find out
more about Mildred D. Taylor and her life as a writer at this
Penguin
Books web site or at this Mississippi
Writers and Musicians Project web site put together by
high school students in Mississippi.
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