ELA

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Mr. Gilbert: sgilbert@bostoncollegiate.org, ex. 1363

Unit 7: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Students will learn the definitions of "tone" and "mood" and discuss how authors use figurative language to craft them.
Students will discuss the history of sharecropping in the American South under Jim Crow laws.
Students will exercise perspective-taking through "pinwheel" activities in which they embody a character from the story.
Students will continue building their academic writing abilities through a final multi-paragraph essay assignment.

Tone: the attitude of an author toward a subject or audience in a piece of writing
Mood: the general feeling a piece of writing evokes in its reader
Figurative Language: use of words to convey a different meaning than one anticipates, in order to improve the effectiveness or persuasiveness of one's message
Sharecropping: a form of farming in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land; contributed to the disenfranchisement of Black Americans during the Reconstruction period after slavery was abolished
Jim Crow Laws: state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States from the end of slavery through 1965.

In addition to their assigned ELA homework, students are expected to read a DEAR book for 30 minutes each night of the week.

Monday, March 9: Finish Pinwheel Prep Packet

Tuesday, March 10: Read through p. 107.

Wednesday, March 11: Answer short-response question.

Thursday, March 12: Finish Ch. 6 (ends on p. 139)

Friday, March 13: Study for Monday's test!

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