Essay and the Quiz

Read over your notes. Look back through the book. Your quiz is tomorrow on Roll of Thunder.

I'll also be collecting your essays.

Read to the end

We read quite a bit in class today, but I'd like you to go home and finish up the novel. We'll have our final discussion tomorrow in class about the book before the quiz on Friday.

Practice Makes Perfect

Friday is the Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry test. I've sent you home with a practice test to try tonight.

We'll see how you did tomorrow.

Reading

to page 217 tonight.

Questions

Answer the questions for Chapters 8-9 handed out in class. Here they are again.

1. Do you feel that Cassie’s plan for revenge on Lillian Jean was a good one? Explain why or why not.


2. Why did T.J. want to get Mrs. Logan into trouble?


3. What do you think is the real reason Kaleb Wallace and Harlan Granger have Mrs. Logan fired?


4. Why does Mama believe that R.W. and Melvin Simms are friends with T.J.?


5.Why does Mr. Avery tell the Logans he can no longer shop in Vicksburg?

Editing

Take the paragraph handed out in class today and correct it for tomorrow.


Need to review the standard editing marks? Look here for a refresher.

Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit was famously sung by Billie Holiday, but was written by a Bronx-based Jewish high school teacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol wrote the music to accompany his poem, as well. Holiday, however, brought this song to fame by recording it and singing it at nearly every live performance.



Please answer the questions on the worksheet in reference to this song:

1. Why were most lynching victims hung from trees? Would they have died this way had they been convicted of a crime in a court of law?

2. What kinds of fruit do trees usually bear? Draw the cycle a fruit-bearing tree would go through in the course of a season.

3. How do we know from the lyrics that the "strange" fruit here means the bodies of lynching victims?

4. Why is it that Southern trees bear the "strange fruit"?

5. What contrast is made between the "gallant South" and the South which bears strange fruit? What is ironic about this contrast?

6. Why do you think the word "lynching" never appears in the song?

7. Do you think the song is more powerful, or less powerful, because its topic [lynching] is implied instead of stated?

Rolling on in Roll of Thunder

We're more than halfway through our novel, and while some of you seem to be enjoying it, others of you seem puzzled by the text.

Please look over what we have read to date (we're on page 165), and bring in at least two questions about the novel. It might be a question you have about the motives of a character, or a question you have to clarify a scene. Perhaps it is a word that you don't really know, or concept you would like to know more about.

Whatever they are, jot them down and we'll discuss them more formally tomorrow.

Israel Essays

Please take the work on your paragraph organizer and use it write your first draft.

Due tomorrow.

Promoting Peace in Israel

We discussed today how Israel can promote peace. In class, we found that many people were pessimistic that peace can be achieved -- but there are plenty of people out there that be live peace is attainable.

Look at these companies/organizations and see what they are doing to promote peace:

PeaceWorks

OneVoice

Olive Trees Foundation

Project TRIUMPH

Read this story about a man promoting peace through sports:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtUnd.jhtml?itemNo=557398&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y


Read through these sites and tell me whether you think their work will make a difference.

Jim Crow Laws

Separate, but equal is the standard set up by the Jim Crow laws. Whites and blacks could ride on the same train, but in different cars. Whites and blacks would be educated, but in different schools.

As most of us know, things were separate for blacks and white, but they were hardly ever equal. We only have to compare the school that the Logan family attends to the one that Jeremy Simms attends.

Of course, not all whites agreed with Jim Crow laws and we can see evidence of that in some political cartoons from that time. Tonight, take a look at the cartoons handed out in class and try to see what the cartoonist is saying about the situation being portrayed.

We'll look at more cartoons in class tomorrow.

Question Answer Response

At this point, you should have finished up until Chapter 6.

Answer the questions that go along with Chapter 5. All answers should be handed in on a separate piece of paper.

Due Wednesday.