From what point of view is the novel written?
What is the setting of the novel?
During what significant time period in US history does the novel take place?
Who is the narrator of the novel?
Identify 3 conflicts in the novel.
Who does Papa bring in to help protect the family?
Who give Stacey a new coat?
Name two characters that take whippings in TJs place.
Who pushed Cassie down in the road?
Who owns the mercantile that TJ and the Simmses break into?
What do the children do to get even with the white's school bus?
Why does Papa work on the railroad in Louisiana?
What does Uncle Hammer do to pay the loan?
What are the two excuses the school board and Harlan Granger use to fire Mama?
Why was Mr. Morrison fired from the railroad?
What is the mood of the story at the end of the book?
Why didn't Cassie understand what happened to her in Strawberry?
What mood does the title of the book give?
Identify a common theme throughout the book.
Why do the Logans value their land so much?
its right wheel in the gully, like a lopsided billy goat on its knees
the tat-tat of the rain against the tin roof changed to a deafening roar...”
but eventually the dust was forced to surrender to the mastery of the rain
“…bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire.”
What does Cassie mean when she says: I could see Mr. Morrison clearly, moving silently, like a jungle cat,
First Person
Mississippi in the 1930s
The Great Depression
Cassie Logan
Blacks vs. Whites, Cassie vs. Lillian Jean, Stacey vs. T.J. , Mr. Morrison vs. the white men
Mr. Morrison
Uncle Hammer
Stacey and Claude
Mr. Simms
Mr. Barnett
dig a trench across the road
to pay the mortgage
He sold his car.
She wasn't teaching from the book and she destroyed the books by gluing over them.
He fought 2 white men.
sad, unsettling
She had never been before and she had never experienced that severe of racism before.
gloomy, scary, sad, uneasy
No matter what people do to you, family is always there and the most important thing.
It is the only thing they own that can not be taken away.
simile
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
He was moving quickly, quietly, and stealthily across the yard.
