Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Pages 117 – 130

Getting It Straight

Stacey tells Cassie not the ______Big Ma for what happened in Strawberry.

The silver Packard at the Logan’s house didn’t belong to Harlan Granger, it belongs to ______.

Uncle Hammer gets angry when he hears what Mr. Simms did to Cassie, and he tells Mama that he’d be “______” if he’d knocked Lillian Jean down.

Mama tells Cassie that in Strawberry, Big Ma did what she had to do and didn’t ______.

Mama explains to Cassie that even though seventy years have passed since slavery, most white people still ______.

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 you think Uncle Hammer wanted to buy the exact same car as Harlan Granger?

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2.  Why does Mama send Mr. Morrison after Uncle Hammer when he leaves the house?

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3.  What is the lesson that Mama is trying to teach Cassie on pages 127-130?

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Pages 130 -139

Getting It Straight

Cassie hoped that Uncle Hammer would take them to church in his ______.

Mr. Morrison talked all night to Uncle Hammer until he got tired and wouldn’t ______.

Uncle Hammer gave Stacey his Christmas present early, and it was a new ______.

T.J. told Stacey that his new coat made him look like a fat ______.

After church Uncle Hammer took the family on a ______the full 22 miles to ______.

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 does Stacey think that Uncle Hammer could’ve been killed last night?

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2.  What reason does T.J. have to make fun of Stacey’s new coat?

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3.  Why does Mama say, “One day we’ll pay for it” on page 139?

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Pages 140 - 150

Getting It Straight

Mama asks Stacey to go get his coat so that she can fix the sleeves, but ______.

When Big Ma tells Stacey to go get his coat back, Uncle Hammer says that if Stacey’s not smart enough to hold on to a good coat then he ______,

Around midnight, Cassie wakes up and sees that ______has come home.

When Mr. Morrison was young, the night men came to his house 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.  What do you think of the lesson Uncle Hammer taught Stacey?

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2.  Predict what you think will happen between Cassie and Lillian Jean.

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3.  What does Papa mean when he says, “It’s their history” on the bottom of page 148?

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Pages 150 - 158

Getting It Straight

Cassie wakes to find the adults discussing how to get people to stop shopping at ______. Uncle Hammer would rather ______.

Big Ma is worried that if they back other people’s credit, they’ll lose their ______.

The Logan children receive ______for Christmas.

There was a timid knock on the door, and it was ______. He brought ______for the family and a ______for Stacey.

Papa tells Stacey that ‘Friendship between black and white don’t mean much ‘cause it usually ain’t on 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 agree with Big Ma that backing other people’s credit would be dangerous?

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2.  Why are the books such a special gift? Would you be that excited if you got books this Christmas?

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3.  What is your opinion about what Papa said to Stacey about being friends with Jeremy Simms?

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Pages 158 - 170

Getting It Straight

______, ______, and ______get into the Packard to go to Vicksburg.

Big Ma signed the ownership of the land over to ______and ______.

______offers to back the credit for the other families in Vicksburg because he worries if the Logan’s do it with their land, they’ll ______it.

Mr. ______pays a visit to the Logan’s to talk about shopping in Vicksburg. He threatens Papa and Uncle Hammer that if they go through with it their ______payment might end up being due.

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 you think Mr. Jamison offers to back the 30 families’ credit?

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2.  What is Mr. Granger’s threat?

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3.  Why does Mr. Granger even care about families shopping at Vicksburg instead of shopping at the Wallace store?

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