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What Are Your Thoughts? Lesson PlanWhat Are Your Thoughts? Lesson Plan
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6th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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45 mins
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What Are Your Thoughts?

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The varying responses of the characters in Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry to the discrimination they experience or perpetrate provides readers with an opportunity to not only examine the feelings of the characters but to also consider their own experiences with disillusionment.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

roll of thunder, hear my cry, mildred d. taylor, discrimination, human rights, historical fiction, the universal declaration of human rights, racism, prejudice, emotions

Additional Tags

discrimination, hear my cry, roll of thunder, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Ask class members to design their own emotions posters, either in response to the lesson or to how they are feeling that day
  • Incorporate the three-lesson series in a unit study of the Great Depression or discrimination that includes Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Classroom Considerations

  • Final lesson in the three-part series
  • Although a link is provided, instructors must chose and print multiple posters for group activity

Pros

  • Each group focuses on a single character and adopts the voice of that character in their presentation

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.8.1 RL.8.2 RL.8.5 RL.8.10

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