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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Reading Project!

Wednesday May 30th is the last day to turn in all pieces of your menu for your Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry project!!!

Just in case you forgot about the three main dish options, here they are:

1.  Research the Depression-era educational system for blacks in the state of Mississippi and write a 5-paragraph essay about it.

2.  Create the front page of a newspaper: Write a news article using the attack on the Berry's of Smellings Creek as the main article (at least 4 paragraphs) and include at least 2 other smaller articles (at least 1 paragraph each).

3.  Write a persuasive, 5-paragraph essay about one of the themes from the novel, for example, family, racism, forgiving, choices, courage, freedom, self-respect, etc.

We have had many opportunities to work on this at school, but we will only have a few more days of school to work on this before it's due so make sure you're working on it at home too!