Each group member pick a vocab word to define AND a question to answer AND an answer from someone else you can comment on. Make sure you aren't repeating someone else's answer. Also make sure to write the number (V1 or C1) and answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES using the question!!!
Vocabulary: Write the page number and context of the word, and then a definition in your own words (use a dictionary or dictionary.com to help you!). You may need to read over the vocab words BEFORE you read so you don't have to spend as long hunting them down.
1. amiably -
2. dubious -
3. flounced -
4. morosely -
5. penchant -
6. raucous -
7. reverberated -
8. temerity -
9. Other difficult word not listed -
Comprehension Questions:
1. Who is Harlan Granger?
2. Why do you think the children's father has to go away and lay track?
3. What does the land represent to Cassie's father?
4. What is a sharecropper?
5. What is the relationship between TJ and Stacey?
6. What was "the burning" and who was burned?
7. What indignity do the children suffer from the school bus and the bus driver?
8. Explain who the Simms are: (What does the family do? Who are the kids? What are the kids like?)
9. Why is the school only in operation from October to March?
10. Why are Little Man and Cassie upset by the books they are given at school?
11. What does mama do about the books and what happens after she does that?
12. Give examples of the dialect from the story (dialect is the style of speech that the characters use):
V7 - reverberated - p. 12 - "the gong of the bell reverberated across the compound"
ReplyDeleteA loud noise repeated several times as an echo
C1 - Harlan Granger is a rich, white man. His family had lost their plantation after the Civil War, but now he has all of it back, except the 400 acres the Logan family owns.
I didn't know African Americans owned that much land back then. My prediction is that Harlan will try to get his 400 acres back by taking it away from the Logans.
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