ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY – Reading and Activities (6th Grade) - TEACHER COPY
Objectives: SWAB to integrate LA, reading, speaking, and writing concepts to study different themes brought forth
in the novel RT,HMC.
Themes: Importance of Family, Owning Land, Self-Respect, Respect of Others, Racism
Chapter
#
Finish
by this
Date
CRISS Strategy
Topic / Theme
Focus During
Class
Feb 19
Author’s Craft
Anticipatory Guide
“Tell of a time when
someone treated u
unfairly because you
are too young, a girl, a
boy, etc.”
Introduce book, author,
“Thunder poem,“
(sharecropping, Jim Crow
laws, KKK, Mississippi,
etc.)
Begin
ch 1
Feb. 20
Finish
ch 1
Review Sticky Notes
(& how to use them
for Main Idea, etc.)
Create a Title (for
each ch) – 10 finger
summary(Main Idea)
Ch 2
Grammar: Adjectives
(p180) & Comparing
(p188)
Voc. Day 1 – Introduce
list of words (A)
Activities - HW / Projects
(Due dates provided)
Make a small representation of “racism”
(picture, collage, poem, etc.) – Use lots
of adjectives if you write the poem OR
to label the picture or collage
Due: Next class
Vocabulary (ch1-6) –
List A
Discuss Sharecropping
(Sticky Notes – use thru
unit)
Feb. 26
Venn Diagram
Language Arts
Connection
Make a Venn Diag. to
com/cont Blacks &
Whites in the 30s
Grammar: Subject-Verb
agreement / Vocab (p
Make a Contrast Chart
showing Differences
between White & Black children
(6 or more things)
Due: Feb. 26
Grammar:
Interview a person about having
Experienced PREJUDICE. (Teacher
Will provide interview sheet)
Understand compare
/contrast
Due: March 11
Discuss / Read
Feb. 27
QARs (Question N
Answer Relationship)
Vocab. Day 2 (connect)
Literary elements (pt of
view) Read The True
Story of 3 Little Pigs
Ch 3 - 4
Due: March 11
Grammar: continue …
Writing: Your own
Folktale / Fairy tale
(writing process)
Ch 5 (pp
102-109)
Continue working on INTERVIEW…
Mar.
11
Continue…
Grammar:
Continue writing story
Vocab. Day 3 (Greek &
Latin roots, etc.) --change this!!!.........
Ch 5
(pp110116)
Mar.
12
Ch 6 (pp
116-127)
Mar.
13
Dramatic Speaking
(tableau, projecting
voice, pronunciation,
fluency, etc)
Grammar:
Continue…
Literary elements:
(setting character-plotconflict-pt of viewforeshadow-flashbacketc)- Folktales /
Talltales/etc
Discuss story st. are
writing / revise / etc.
Discuss story st. are
writing / revise / etc.
Ch 6 (pp
128-139)
Mar.
17
Continue…
Reader’s Theater
(speaking w/ voice &
body) – do activities
(use Folktales / Talltales
in lesson_
Vocab. Day 4 (TEST)
Ch 7 (pp
140-155)
Mar.
18
T-Chart
Ch 7 (pp
156-170)
Mar.
19
Semantic Feature
Analysis (+++- -)
Ch 8 (pp
171-182)
Mar.
24
Selective Highlight
Ch 8 (pp
183-194)
Mar.
25
Continue…
Continue…
(pronouncing properly,
fluent reading, focusing
on specific words) – do
diff. exercises
Voc. Day 1 – Introduce
list of words (B)
Deliver a portion of “I
Have a Dream” OR
other chosen piece
from RT,HMC – (Test
grade)
Grammar:
Vocab. Day 2 (connect)
Vocab. Day 3(Greek &
Latin roots, etc.)change this!!!!!!......
POETRY (different
styles) -writing process
Ch 9
Ch 10 (pp
218-230)
Mar.
26
Mar.
31
Number (Power
Thinking)
Main Idea / Details (12-3)
Begin w/ people
standing w/ cards
Continue…
Grammar:
Continue POETRY –
Read poems / discuss
Grammar:
Writing: Write poem
(different styles) – use
writing process
Ch 10 (pp
231-241)
April 1
Problem/Solution
Chart (come up w/
alternative solutions)
Ch 11
April 2
Continue…
Ch 12 (pp
257-268)
April 7
QARs
(St. develop ?s for
their EXAM)
Ch 12 (pp
April 8
Continue… (share ?s
Grammar:
Vocab. Day 4 (TEST)
Continue writing
poems…
Grammar: REVIEW (big
game!!!)
Continue POETRY…
Grammar:
EXAM (Adjective &
Adverbs)
Explain Concept of
269-276)
w/ class)
REVIEW
April 9
EXAM
April
10
(Thur)
Notes:
REVIEW
Definition Maps &
Visual Definitions
Do Concept of
Definitions Map about
some of the “problems”
identified from
“Problem / Solution
Charts” & “Visual Def.”
Catch up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REVIEW
EXAM
EXAM
Catch up!!!!!!!!!
CATCH UP ON YOUR READING!!!!!!!!!!
HW: Bring the book
Number the Stars by L. Lowry