Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Pages 218 – 230
Getting It Straight
Papa doesn’t want to tell Uncle Hammer that he’s not ______. He doesn’t want to risk ______.
Thurston and Dewberry Wallace are still ______.
After what Mr. Morrison did to the ______, Mama is ______for him.
Kaleb Wallace blocked the road with his truck, so Mr. Morrison ______and ______.
Jeremy tells the Logan children that some people are ______.
T.J. has become a ______.
Delving In
Discuss the following questions with your partner. Answer them on the lines below remembering that responses must have at least 2 SENTENCES.
1. Do you think Mr. Morrison should stay with the Logan’s or leave? Why?
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2. Why are people glad that Papa’s hurt and won’t get the railroad money? Who are these people?
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3. Why is it symbolic that Jeremy wants to live in a tree? Why does it fit with his personality?
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4. Why does Stacey refuse to go to Jeremy’s house?
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Pages 231 - 241
Getting It Straight
Mr. Morrison comes back from ______and gives Papa news that ______.
Papa called ______who said he could ______.
For Cassie, the best part of the revival was the ______.
Uncle Hammer tells the kids he ______.
Papa wants Mr. Morrison to take Uncle Hammer to Vicksburg because ______.
______shows up at the revival with his new friends ______and ______.
Delving In
Discuss the following questions with your partner. Answer them on the lines below remembering that responses must have at least 2 SENTENCES.
1. Who is responsible for the Logan’s bank note being up and why?
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2. Would you have done what Hammer did? Would you have gone back to Chicago?
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3. What do you think T.J. means when he says, “It didn’t even make a difference” on page 241?
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4. What do you think R.W. and Melvin will make T.J. do to get the pearl-handled pistol?
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Pages 242 - 256
Getting It Straight
Chapter 11 starts with a ______.
______comes knocking in the middle of the night to ask ______for help.
R.W. and Melvin ______the Barnett’s mercantile . When T.J. threatened to tell someone, they ______.
Stacey agrees to help T.J. ______.
Kaleb Wallace and the Simms boys break into the ______house to come and get ______. They are stopped by ______.
Stacey asks Cassie to go and get ______. Stacey will stay in case they ______.
Delving In
Discuss the following questions with your partner. Answer them on the lines below remembering that responses must have at least 2 SENTENCES.
1. Why do R.W. and Melvin wear masks when they rob the Barnett Mercantile? Who do the Barnett’s think the boys are?
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2. What does Kaleb threaten to do since Mr. Granger doesn’t want a hanging on his land?
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3. What is symbolic about the storm that’s rolling in?
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4. Go back to the poem on page 242. Why do you think Mildred Taylor included it there?
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Pages 257 – 266
Getting It Straight
Cassie tells ______everything.
Papa takes the ______to go keep the white men from ______T.J. Mama says they need to ______Harlan Granger to stop it.
Mama smells ______. ______is on fire. If the fire reaches the trees, ______.
Mama and Big Ma go to ______the ______.
______spotted the fire from his tree. He told his ______, who has been fighting the fire.
Papa and Mr. Granger got the men ______.
______started coming down.
Delving In
Discuss the following questions with your partner. Answer them on the lines below remembering that responses must have at least 2 SENTENCES.
1. What is Papa’s plan at the beginning of the chapter? What does Mama want him to do?
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2. Are you surprised that R.W. and Melvin help fight the fire? Why do you think they do it?
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3. Why is it good that the rain starts falling?
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4. What do you think will happen with the fire?
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Pages 266 – 276
Getting It Straight
Where there used to be cotton, now the land was ______.
The sheriff and Mr. Jamison took T.J. ______because they think ______.
______stopped the men from hurting T.J. and sent them to ______.
______died at four o’clock this morning.
Mr. Jamison tells Papa not to give anyone a reason to think about him except ______, or somebody might start ______.
Papa had found a way to make Mr. Granger ______. He had started ______.
Delving In
Discuss the following questions with your partner. Answer them on the lines below remembering that responses must have at least 2 SENTENCES.
1. What does Cassie notice when she sees the men putting out the fire on page 267?
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2. Why does what Papa did have to be what Cassie calls “one of those known and unknown things” (page 274)?
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3. What is going to happen to T.J.? What will happen to R.W. and Melvin?
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