CD PROJECT
Directions
{On the front cover}
Design in an artistic manner a cover for the story “The Treasures of Lemon Brown.” The cover should
include the title of the story and the name of the blues song along with several pictorial symbols to
convey the relationship between the song and the story.
{On the back cover}
Write a one-paragraph explanatory essay of the cover art and song selection. Be sure to explain why
you chose to use the art and the song to represent the story. The questions below will help to fully
develop your paragraph:
 Describe each image(symbols) drawn on the front cover.
 Cite lines from the song that support the theme of the story.
 What images seen in the song are important to the selection?
 Why is the song symbolic of the story?
 What shared theme(s) or lessons learned exist in both the song and the story?
CD PROJECT
Directions
{On the front cover}
Design in an artistic manner a cover for the story “The Treasures of Lemon Brown.” The cover should
include the title of the story and the name of the blues song along with several pictorial symbols to
convey the relationship between the song and the story.
{On the back cover}
Write a one-paragraph explanatory essay of the cover art and song selection. Be sure to explain why
you chose to use the art and the song to represent the story. The questions below will help to fully
develop your paragraph:
 Describe each image(symbols) drawn on the front cover.
 Cite lines from the song that support the theme of the story.
 What images seen in the song are important to the selection?
 Why is the song symbolic of the story?
 What shared theme(s) or lessons learned exist in both the song and the story?
“Trouble Soon to be Over” by Blind Willie Jefferson
“ Crossroad Blues” by Robert Johnson
“Death Letter Blues” by Son House
“Manish Boy” by Muddy Waters
Example of Student work:
The reason that I chose to draw the cross, was because Lemon Brown actually still had hope for
a better life. The color gray was to actually show that Lemon Brown is not so lucky but the sun
represents two things. The first one is that his life will be getting better over time, the second
thing is that one of the reasons that he is living is to protect his treasure because it has valuable
memories that are worth remembering. The reason that I wrote the name of the blues in red was
because in the song it talks about how the person is asking for help but everyone ignores him.
The color represents suffering because he is suffering physically because the street thugs want
his treasure, but also suffers emotionally, because he doesn’t have somebody to share a life with
and that is what the grave wall represents because in the story it says that his wife and son died.
But for Greg the color gray represents his feelings towards his father at the beginning and the sun
is basically the change of attitude when Lemon Brown taught him the true meaning of a treasure
and he accepts his dad’s point of view and has a better understanding of what life is, and how his
dad cares for him in his own way.
Additional Short Answer Questions for test.
15.) Lemon Brown gave his heritage to his son. What do you think is the author’s (Walter Dean
Myers) belief about the importance of sharing heritage with children?
16.) Heritage is defined as something that is passed down from father to son. What did Lemon
Brown pass to his son and what does it symbolize?
17.) What heritage is Greg’s dad passing to him?
18.) What theme or lesson did Greg learn from Lemon Brown? What can we learn from his
story? (Essential Question)