CHARACTERS
TERMS/LITERATURE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
CHAPTER ONE
QUOTES
100

oldest Logan child

Who is Stacey

100

a character that changes over time

What is a dynamic character?

100

Laws named after a minstrel made to separate people based upon race

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

100

Great  Faith Elementary

What is the African American children's school?

100

"Y'all go ahead an get dirty if y'all wanna.  Me, I'm gonna stay clean."

Who is Little Man?

200

store owner

Who is Mr. Barnett?

200

a struggle with self?

What is an internal conflict?

200

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson establishment

What is the case that began segregation?

200

Stacey, Cassie, Christopher John, and Little Man

Who are the Logan children?

200

"I betcha I could give y'all an earful 'bout that burnin' last night."

Who is TJ?

300

burned

Who is Mr. Berry?

300

establishes setting, characters, conflict

What is the exposition?

300

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Who was president during the Great Depression? our novel?

300

teacher, mother, book mender

Who is Mama?

300
"Now we're very fortunate to get these readers."

Who is Miss Crocker?

400

narrator

Who is Cassie?

400

A character that shows strengths and weaknesses in other character

What is a foil?

400

The hanging of someone (usually an African American) without a trial by jury with a judge...murder by hanging that is racially motivated

What is lynching?

400

refuses dirty book

Who is Little Man?

400

"I just wanna tell you how come Little Man done what he done."

Who is Cassie?

500

silent and strong

Who is Mr. Morrison?

500

the hero/heroine

What is the protagonist?

500

Brown v. Board of Education

The court case that ended segregation.

500

Believes kids should accept place in society.

Who is Miss Crocker?

500

"that doesn't mean they have to accept them...and maybe we don't either."

Who is Mama?