Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Name:_______________________
PST Chart
Plot

Subjects

Here is where you give a very brief

synopsis of the plot of the novel.
Include these:

Who (characters):
What (the problem):
Where (location):
When (time period
Sothis happens-original conflict:
____________
___________________

Themes

Subjects included in the novel

Must be what story/novel is about
and in one or two words. Find 3
*See Subjects listed on the back of
this sheet.

What is the autho

these subjects?
Remember th

subjects where app

sentence identifyin
conveying about e

And then, as a result, this

happens_________ _______________
(events in rising action)
Finally, this happens:
___________________

A summary of the plot or events of a poem (or short story

or novel) is written in paragraph form.
Ex. In Janet Waking, by John Crowe Ransom, Janet
awakens one morning and runs to greet her pet chicken
only to discover that a bee had stung and killed the bird.
The discovery desolates Janet to such a degree that her
father cannot comfort her.

the theme--th
subject.
The theme is
sentence, and
we have lear
particular su

Subjects of the poem (or short story or novel) are

listed as words or phrases.

Remember th
not the them
must be abou
must be univ
times, all peo

Ex. 1. Children become awa

and are transformed by the k
2. The death of innocence is

Ex. a childs first experience of death

1. loss of a pet innocence

Themes For RT
In Mildred Taylors novel RTHMC, a
young girl named Cassie, who is living
in Mississippi in the 1930s, discovers
that she will be treated differently by
her community because of her skin
color. She realizes this after get used
books and the fact that the white kids
have a bus and she does not. Another
character T.J attempts to befriend
people in the white community, and as
a result is violently beaten in the end.

Subjects For RTHMC:

1. loss of innocence
2.
3.

1.
2.
3.

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Final
Outcomes
How did the
novel end?

The Final OutcomesConnections to the

Story/Characters.
What does the final
outcome say about
particular characters and
subjects within the novel?

Big Ideas, Subjects, and Concepts in Literature

What is the authors

message?
Novels Themes & Ideas:

Acceptance
Aristocracy
Art
Authority
Beauty
Behavior
Beliefs
Chance
Common Good
Community
Courage
Culture
Customs
Compassion
Cooperation vs Conflict
Desire
Diversity
Duty
Education
Equality
Eternity
Ethics
Experience
Faith
Family
Fate
Freedom
Good and Evil
Happiness
Honor
Identity
Infinity
Influence
Judgment

Justice
Knowledge
Laws and Rules
Liberty
Life and Death
Love
Needs and Wants
Memory
Imagination
Innovation
Nature
Opposition
Order
Passion
Perception
Perseverance
Perspective
Pleasure and Pain
Power
Progress
Respect
Revolution
Rights and Responsibilities
Similarities and Differences
Systems
Status
Strength
Time
Truth
Tyranny
Virtue and Vice
War and Peace
Will
Wisdom