Independent reading. About the Unit
With this unit's focus on telling details, you will be exploring how even the
smallest detail can unlock the meaning of a short story. You will also learn about
some of the devices authors use to create worlds and engage their readers, and
you will use those devices to create your own short story.
Essential Questions
Based on your current thinking, how would you answer these questions?
1. How do telling details work together to convey meaning?
2. How are writing and reading connected?
3. What tools do authors use to create meaning and affect their readers?
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O Planning Independent Reading
The focus of this unit is telling details, and you will have the opportunity
chort ctorios in class. In your

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

- the heat nearly killed them that first summer.

i think she wanted to protect her children from the extreme racism of the american south.

at hatfield elementary school, there are 504 students in 7 classes. each class has the same number of students. what is a good estimate of the number of students in each class?