Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Literary Cafe
Station #1: Boycotts - Choose Your Boycott With Partner. Do Canva Individually.
· In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the Logans begin a boycott of the Wallace store. Read the definition and examples of a boycott to make sure you understand what a boycott is.
Definition of a Boycott: To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something as a way of protesting: to stop using goods or services of a company, country, etc. until changes are made.
Examples of Boycott:
1. Plans to boycott American products
2. They boycotted the city's bus system.
3. We boycotted companies that were polluting the environment.
Partners choose one boycott from the list of successful boycotts below and read about it:
1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott with Rosa Parks
1960's Grape Boycott
You will pretend that either Rosa Parks or Cesar Chavez (depending on which article from above you have read) is giving a lecture to a large group. Your job is to create a poster using Canva to advertise the lecture with the goal of getting as large an audience as possible. Therefore, your poster needs to be engaging and creative.
PRODUCT: Each person will create a Canva poster. You will include 2 images and will answer these questions on the poster:
Each person must answer the questions for Station #1 in your folder BEFORE building your Canva poster.
Remember, you are trying to get people to attend the lecture. Don't overload your poster with too much information. Share your Canva by emailing it to your teacher.
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Station #2: Segregation and Jim Crow Laws - Do Venn Diagram With Partner. Do Canva Individually.
Sources 3 - 4: Using Google Chrome as your browser, go to the sources listed below to view primary source pictures of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Save approximately 4 to 6 of them on your network file.
You will pretend that you are working for an organization in 1960 that is trying to get some Jim Crow laws outlawed in states across America. Because pictures can create a powerful message, you will create a photo collage using Canva to show how people are experiencing Jim Crow laws in their daily lives.
Use 4 to 6 pictures you saved from the Library of Congress sources above to create your photo collage. Also use text boxes on your collage to answer this question:
PRODUCT: Share your Canva photo collage by emailing it to your teacher.
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Station #3: Sharecropping - Do With Partner
Play a Sharecropping Simulation to help understand the plight of the sharecropper. Using beans to represent money, you will earn or lose money according to the situations that happen in the game.
Each student in the group will have an assigned role:
Dialogue Reader--One person will read the script.
Sharecroppers--Listen to the Dialogue Reader and do what the script says to do.
At the end of the Simulation, your group is to discuss if the Sharecropper students were able to earn money at the end of the growing season.
PRODUCT: Using the graph paper provided, make a Line Graph of Sharecropping plotting the events that took place in the game. Plot your events with points and connect all points with a line. Turn in one Line Graph from each partnership to your teacher.
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Station#4: Sharecropper Experiences - Do By Yourself
Go to EDpuzzle. Create an account by clicking, "I'm a Student." When prompted, give your first name initial with your last name as your first name. Your username will also be your first name initial with your last name and your password will be your student ID number. Do not give your email. Look at this example:
First name:
jedwards
Username:
jedwards
Password:
333333333
After you submit, in the upper right hand corner of the screen, click on "Join New Class". Put in the class code your teacher gives you and join the class. Your assignment is to watch the video on Memories of Sharecropping. This shows interviews of several people who grew up in the South and were from sharecropping families. Answer each question that are embedded in the video as they come up.
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· In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the Logans begin a boycott of the Wallace store. Read the definition and examples of a boycott to make sure you understand what a boycott is.
Definition of a Boycott: To refuse to buy, use, or participate in something as a way of protesting: to stop using goods or services of a company, country, etc. until changes are made.
Examples of Boycott:
1. Plans to boycott American products
2. They boycotted the city's bus system.
3. We boycotted companies that were polluting the environment.
Partners choose one boycott from the list of successful boycotts below and read about it:
1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott with Rosa Parks
1960's Grape Boycott
You will pretend that either Rosa Parks or Cesar Chavez (depending on which article from above you have read) is giving a lecture to a large group. Your job is to create a poster using Canva to advertise the lecture with the goal of getting as large an audience as possible. Therefore, your poster needs to be engaging and creative.
PRODUCT: Each person will create a Canva poster. You will include 2 images and will answer these questions on the poster:
- What will the person talk about?
- What will the attendees expect to learn? Include information like the goals of the boycott, the problems faced in achieving these goals, and what were the results of the boycott.
- Why does this person have historical significance?
Each person must answer the questions for Station #1 in your folder BEFORE building your Canva poster.
Remember, you are trying to get people to attend the lecture. Don't overload your poster with too much information. Share your Canva by emailing it to your teacher.
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Station #2: Segregation and Jim Crow Laws - Do Venn Diagram With Partner. Do Canva Individually.
- Source 1: Go to Discovery Education. Watch the video on A Segregated America.
- Source 2: Go to The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Pick 2 states from the map and read about some of the Jim Crow laws in those 2 states. Use the Venn Diagram provided to you to compare the laws from 2 states of your choice.
Sources 3 - 4: Using Google Chrome as your browser, go to the sources listed below to view primary source pictures of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Save approximately 4 to 6 of them on your network file.
- Source 3: Library of Congress-American Memory Project 27 photos
- Source 4: Library of Congress – Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination 30 photos
You will pretend that you are working for an organization in 1960 that is trying to get some Jim Crow laws outlawed in states across America. Because pictures can create a powerful message, you will create a photo collage using Canva to show how people are experiencing Jim Crow laws in their daily lives.
Use 4 to 6 pictures you saved from the Library of Congress sources above to create your photo collage. Also use text boxes on your collage to answer this question:
- When I look at these pictures, I wonder __________________________.
PRODUCT: Share your Canva photo collage by emailing it to your teacher.
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Station #3: Sharecropping - Do With Partner
Play a Sharecropping Simulation to help understand the plight of the sharecropper. Using beans to represent money, you will earn or lose money according to the situations that happen in the game.
Each student in the group will have an assigned role:
Dialogue Reader--One person will read the script.
Sharecroppers--Listen to the Dialogue Reader and do what the script says to do.
At the end of the Simulation, your group is to discuss if the Sharecropper students were able to earn money at the end of the growing season.
PRODUCT: Using the graph paper provided, make a Line Graph of Sharecropping plotting the events that took place in the game. Plot your events with points and connect all points with a line. Turn in one Line Graph from each partnership to your teacher.
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Station#4: Sharecropper Experiences - Do By Yourself
Go to EDpuzzle. Create an account by clicking, "I'm a Student." When prompted, give your first name initial with your last name as your first name. Your username will also be your first name initial with your last name and your password will be your student ID number. Do not give your email. Look at this example:
First name:
jedwards
Username:
jedwards
Password:
333333333
After you submit, in the upper right hand corner of the screen, click on "Join New Class". Put in the class code your teacher gives you and join the class. Your assignment is to watch the video on Memories of Sharecropping. This shows interviews of several people who grew up in the South and were from sharecropping families. Answer each question that are embedded in the video as they come up.
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