Characters
The story's protagonist and narrator.
Who is Cassie Logan?
The name of the state where the novel takes place?
What is Mississippi?
Make a sentence for the word boycott.
Example: The Logan family wanted to boycott the Wallace store because of the treatment of the Berrys.
For covering books with paper and teaching information not found in the textbooks but really because of the boycott.
What are the reasons Mama was fired?
This includes the Jim Crow Laws and name calling.
What is racism?
This man owns a car and lives in Chicago.
Who is Uncle Hammer?
The time period the novel takes place.
What is the 1930s or the Great Depression?
Make a sentence for the word sharecropper or sharecropping.
Example: The Logan family are not sharecroppers because they own their land.
Stacey was tired of being called a preacher.
Why did Stacey give the coat to TJ?
The Logan family are proud of this, and it gives them independence.
What is the importance of owning land?
This person teaches school and takes care of 4 kids.
Who is Caroline (Mama) Logan?
The main crop that they plant.
What is cotton?
Make a sentence for the word gully.
Example: The bus got trapped in the watery gully.
Why did the Averys and Laniers quit the boycott?
Stacey not being able to get his coat back is an example of how to learn with this theme.
What is you have to suffer to learn?
This man owns the largest portion of land.
Who is Mr. Granger?
The name for the movement that created new music, literature, and the start of civil rights for the Black population.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Make a sentence for the word retaliate.
Example: Cassie retaliated against Lillian Jean after the incident at the Barnett's store.
Cassie threatened that she would tell her secrets.
Why did Lillian Jean not tell anyone on Cassie?
Uncle Hammer selling his car to keep the land is an example of this theme.
What is you can always count on family?
These people are responsible for the crimes against the Berry family.
Who are the Wallaces?
The name of the two elementary schools in the novel.
What are Jefferson Davis and Great Faith Elementary schools?
Make a sentence for the word expound.
Example: Stacey expounded on the story of the encounter with the Wallaces.
They like to watch the Black kids and make fun of them.
What is the reason the Wallaces have a backroom to their store?
This is the literary term for how Tj's bad qualities highlights Stacey's good qualities.
What is a literary foil?