ROLL of
THUNDER,
HEAR MY CRY
TEAM
PLAYBOOK
SEASON SCHEDULE
CH 1-2
#
1
2
3
4
5
6
Role/Job
Concessions Due Dates
Groundskeeper: Setting Expert
Coach: Tone Expert
Marketing Director: Lit Device Expert
Mascot: Theme Expert
Player: Characterization Expert
Play by Play Announcer: Plot Expert
Lit Device Activity:
4/28
Character Trading Card:
Story Board:
4/28
4/28
CH 3-4
#
6
1
2
3
4
5
Role/Job
Concessions Due Dates
Groundskeeper: Setting Expert
Coach: Tone Expert
Marketing Director: Lit Device Expert
Mascot: Theme Expert
Player: Characterization Expert
Play by Play Announcer: Plot Expert
Lit Device Activity:
Character Trading Card:
Story Board:
5/1
5/1
5/1
CH 5-6
#
5
6
1
2
3
4
Role/Job
Groundskeeper: Setting Expert
Coach: Tone Expert
Marketing Director: Lit Device Expert
Mascot: Theme Expert
Player: Characterization Expert
Play by Play Announcer: Plot Expert
Concessions Due Dates
Lit Device Activity:
Character Trading Card:
Story Board:
5/8
5/8
5/8
SEASON SCHEDULE (cont.)
CH 7-8
#
4
5
6
1
2
3
Role/Job
Concessions Due Dates
Groundskeeper: Setting Expert
Coach: Tone Expert
Marketing Director: Lit Device Expert
Mascot: Theme Expert
Player: Characterization Expert
Play by Play Announcer: Plot Expert
Lit Device Activity:
5/13
Character Trading Card:
Story Board:
5/13
5/13
CH 9-10
#
3
4
5
6
1
2
Role/Job
Concessions Due Dates
Groundskeeper: Setting Expert
Coach: Tone Expert
Marketing Director: Lit Device Expert
Mascot: Theme Expert
Player: Characterization Expert
Play by Play Announcer: Plot Expert
Lit Device Activity:
5/29
Character Trading Card:
Story Board:
5/29
5/29
CH 11-12
#
2
3
4
5
6
1
Role/Job
Groundskeeper: Setting Expert
Coach: Tone Expert
Marketing Director: Lit Device Expert
Mascot: Theme Expert
Player: Characterization Expert
Play by Play Announcer: Plot Expert
Concessions Due Dates
Lit Device Activity:
Character Trading Card:
Story Board:
6/3
6/3
6/3
GROUNDSKEEPER
SETTING EXPERT
SCOUTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ With the Grounds Crew, talk about & record how the setting
o Effects the characters
o Effects the plot
SETTING
How the Setting Effects the Characters
How the Setting Effects the Plot
CH #-#
♦ Setting/Description
♦ Setting/Description
♦ Character’s Feelings
♦ Conflict
♦ Cause and Effect Statement
♦ Cause and Effect Statement
Example ♦ Venus: it rains all the time, sun ♦ Venus: it rains all the time except for one
only comes out once every
hour every seven years
Ch 1-2
seven years for one hour
♦ Margot believes that the sun will shine
♦ Margot is homesick for earth,
but her peers don’t believe her; so they
she is sad and isolated
bully her and lock her in a closet.
♦ Because it rains all the time on
♦ Because it rains all the time except for
Venus and the sun only comes
one hour every seven years, Margot’s
out once every 7 years, Margot
peers don’t believe that the sun will come
is homesick for earth, sad, and
out and therefore they bully her and lock
isolated.
her in a closet.
REPORTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ Your job is to make sure that you share BOTH cause and effect
statements with your HOME TEAM and they should be recording this
information in their notebooks.
COACH
TONE EXPERT
SCOUTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ With the other COACHES, decide & record 2-4 TONES
o Draw the Emotions man/men in a box
o Choose a quote from the text that supports the tone
o Write down the page number
CH 1-2
TONE
♦ TONE
CH 7-8
♦ p.: QUOTE from Text
♦ TONE
♦ p.: QUOTE from Text
♦ TONE
♦ p.: QUOTE from Text
♦ TONE
♦ p.: QUOTE from Text
REPORTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ Your job is to make sure that you share the TONES and the QUOTES
with your HOME TEAM and they should be recording this information
in their notebooks.
Marketing Director
Literary Device Expert
SCOUTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ With the other MARKETING DIRECTORS, locate & record as many
Literary Devices in the time given.
o Write down the page number
o Write down the Letter Symbol for the Device
o Write down the quote from the text
Analogy
Dialect
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Idiom
Imagery
Page #
3
LD
SI
A
D
F
H
ID
IM
LITERARY DEVICES
Irony
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
Symbolism
IR
M
O
P
SI
SY
Quote from the Text
Her eyes were like emeralds.
REPORTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ Your job is to make sure that you share the LITERARY DEVICES that
you recorded with your HOME TEAM and they should be recording this
information in their notebooks.
♦ Also, don’t forget, you are responsible for choosing one of the Literary
Devices you recorded and completing the activity sheet by your
Concessions due date!!!
Roll
of
Thunder,
Hear
My
Cry
Literary
Devices
p.
The
author
uses
this
Creativity
Content
TOTAL
/4
/4
/8
to
show
MASCOT
Theme Expert
SCOUTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ With the other MASCOTS:
o Read over each Theme
o Find a Quote from the Text that supports the theme
o Write down the page number and the Quote
THEME
The importance of Family
The love and devotion to family is the motivation that drives the majority of the characters in the
novel to act as they do and to protect and defend each other.
p. Write the quote here.
REPORTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ Your job is to make sure that you share the THEME QUOTES with your
HOME TEAM and they should be recording this information in their
notebooks.
PLAYER
CHARACTERIZATION
EXPERT
SCOUTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ With the other PLAYERS, for each of the 9 characters
o Decide on a Trait or Traits
o Prove the Trait with a Quote from the Text
o Write down the page number
CH #-#
CHARACTER’s Name
♦ TRAIT
♦ p. Quote from the Text
REPORTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ Your job is to make sure that you share the TRAITS and the QUOTES
with your HOME TEAM and they should be recording this information
in their notebooks.
♦ Also, don’t forget, you are responsible for choosing one of the
characters and completing the Trading Card Activity by your
Concessions due date!!!
TRADING CARD ACTIVITY DIRECTIONS
FRONT of CARD (5 points)
BACK of CARD (10 points)
NAME
Age(ish):
Relationships: son of, daughter of,…
Physical Traits: at least 3
Character Traits: at least 3
Likes:
Dislikes:
Relationship
to another
character
First & Last Name
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Hobbies:
Talents/Skills:
Profession:
Something he or she said that was
memorable:
PLAY-by-PLAY
ANNOUNCER
PLOT EXPERT
SCOUTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ With the other PLAY-by-PLAY Announcers:
o Discuss the Main Ideas of the Reading
o Write a Summary using IVF format.
o Draw a Comic Strip that goes along with the summary
CH 1-2
PLOT
CH 7-8
REPORTING DIRECTIONS:
♦ Your job is to make sure that you share the SUMMARY and the COMIC
STRIP with your HOME TEAM and they should be recording this
information in their notebooks.
♦ Also, don’t forget, you are responsible for creating a STORY BOARD
with the Chapter Numbers, Summary, and Picture by the Concessions
due date!!!
Roll
of
Thunder,
Hear
My
Cry
Story
Board/Summary
Creativity
Content
TOTAL
/4
/4
/8
CHAPTERS _________ - _________
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