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WebQuest on Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry Directions—Answer the questions that follow and be sure to restate the question in your response. Ø Go to www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brown/photos.htm to answer the questions below. 1. Study the photographs. What stands out to you about these images? Describe the quality of life for sharecroppers. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Ø Go to http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/kowalski/112/dictionary/sharecropping.htm answer the questions below. 2. Define sharecropping. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. How is sharecropping similar to slavery? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. If slavery is illegal, how is sharecropping legal? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Ø Go to www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_kkk.html to answer the questions below. 5. Describe the traps that tied sharecroppers to the land. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Ø Go to www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_kkk.html to answer the questions below. 6. What groups do the KKK oppose? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. During what time period did the KKK have the most political power? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. What things did the KKK do to frighten people and maintain power over non­whites? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________
1 9. Imagine the reaction of a man being hunted by the KKK. How would it be different for his wife? for his children? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Mob violence occurs when a group of people become focused on a violent plan, and "feed" off one another in their excitement. Soon no one person can stop the violent events from taking place. What examples of mob violence can you think of from recent times? If you can't think of any, write a fictional event demonstrating mob violence. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Ø Go to www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/laws.html to answer the question below. 11. Define Jim Crow laws. Give some examples. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Ø Go to www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/jimcrowguide.pdf to answer the questions below. 12. In "Program One: Promises Betrayed", read the account of Ned Cobb. What does this story tell you about social power in the Jim Crow era? How has it changed from then to now? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. In "Program One: Promises Betrayed", read the account of Addie and Jerry Holtzclaw. What does this story tell you about the importance of education to the black people of the Jim Crow era? Why do you think they felt this way? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________
2 Ø Go to http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,1073055,00.html to answer the questions below. Read "An Apology for Injustices in History" by Jill Egan. 14. Define lynching. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Describe the mood of the environment in which a lynching took place. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. What effect do you imagine a lynching would have on other blacks who lived nearby? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What effect does it seem a lynching had on those that actually did it? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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