INTRODUCTION: Prereading

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INTRODUCTION Pre-reading

• By
• Mildred Taylor

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

• Read pages 1-10 as a class
• Who is telling the story?
• What is the setting of the story?

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Who can find Mississippi?
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Here it is!
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Close up of Mississippi
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Reread paragraph 2 on page 15
What does the Mississippi flag look like?
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Mississippi Flag
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More to think about

• Reread paragraph 2 on page 7. What does Papa
  mean when he says, You aint never had to live
  on nobodys place but your own.?
• Why do you think the white school and the black
  school didnt share the same school bus?

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Lets talk about Cassie

• What is Cassies language?
• She uses colloquial or homespun language.
• It is a dialect passed orally and reflects
  vocabulary, usage, and pronunciation of a
  particular region of a country or an ethnic
  origin, or an occupation
• Lets find some examples.

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Who is Cassie?

• Complete the attribute web!