Lesson 23:No More Cotton Blues

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Responding TARGET SKILL Cause and Effect In this story, you read about a family of sharecroppers in the 1930s. Copy the chart below. Write down the effects working on the plantation had on Aaron and his family. Cause Working as sharecroppers Effects School closed when cotton needed to be picked. Write About It Text to Self Write a paragraph describing the effects of sharecropping on Aaron’s family. Remember to include main ideas from the story. 19
TARGET VOCABULARY confronting contempt exasperated implored intently occupying scornfully strident subsided warily EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY berating furnish plantation settle sharecropping TARGET SKILL Cause and Effect Tell how events are related and how one event causes another. Write About It TARGET STRATEGY Analyze/Evaluate Think carefully about the text and form an opinion about it. In a famous quotation, Aung San Suu Kyi said, GENRE “Please Historical use your Fiction freedom is a to story promote whose ours.” characters and What events freedoms are set in do a you real value period most of history. Why Write a letter to the editor of a Burmese newspaper explaining the freedoms you have and why they are important to you. 20
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