Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Internet Hunt ( adapted from the work of Cindy O'Hora)
Directions: Click on the links (underlined words) to go to a
web site. Find the answer to the question(s). Use the back
button, of your browser, to return to this page.
1. What kind of climate does the cotton plant require?
2.What is the seed pod of the cotton plant called?
3. Mama talks about taking the cotton to Vicksburg to be ginned. What is the purpose of ginning cotton?
4. How are the seeds of the cotton plant used today?
5.Mama talks to Pga about spraying the cotton plants against insects. What insect can be very damaging to cotton plants?
6.Mama suggests to the other families that they not shop at Wallace's
Store. This is called a boycott. Why did the people in
Tallahassee, Fla organize a bus boycott?
7. Cassie, Little Man, Stacey, and T.J. attend a separate school from
the white students. This is called segregation. In 1954 the
US Supreme Court said that segregation of public schools was not
allowed. What happened three years later, in 1957, when 9 black students went to school at Central High School, Little Rock, Ark?
8.Ms. Taylor describes the white children's Jefferson Davis County
School. She says the Mississippi State flag is flown above the US
flag. Is this correct flag etiquette? What is the rule?
9.Describe the kind of black person Mildred D. Taylor wanted to show in her book? Do you think she met this goal?
10.Visit the Civil Rights Museum.
Select a person who fought for civil rights. How do you believe
their actions contributed to the Civil Rights Movement?
11.Vicksburg, Mississippi city web site.
