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WOW - Roll on Thunder, Hear My Cry

7th Grade Core - Surprise Lake Middle School

Key Concepts for Learning:

 

Students learned and practiced the skills of inferring and analysis. They used these skills to write a Character Analysis.

 

 

Lesson Design:

Students read the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and wrote an analysis on a major character within the story. Then, they pretended the novel was soon to be produced as a major motion picture and they designed movie posters to promote its upcoming release.

 

 

Student Quotes:

"We got to create our own posters and make a scene from the movie-it was" - Kevin

"You could see pictures and ideas from the story so you could understand it more." - Abraham

"You got to color, and it came out of your imagination." - Karli

"I liked it because we didn't have to take a test and we go to do something fun with the story." - Kristi