Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Chapter 8—Summary and Analysis Cloze Activity
Review the chapter by filling in the blanks with a word that is both accurate and makes sense in
the context of the sentence. You may use your book and the theme ideas we are studying.
Summary—what happened
Analysis—why what happened is important
__________________ finds
____________ on the walk to school and
offers to ______________________.
T.J. and the other Logan children don’t
understand what Cassie’s doing, but when
___________ threatens to tell Mama,
_________________ stops him. He says
that whatever’s going on is between Cassie
and Lillian Jean and no one is going to
__________________. T.J. then tries to get
Stacey to _______________
__________________ again, but Stacey
tells him ____________________________.
Cassie is trying to find her own way of
delivering __________________ in a highly
skewed and unfair system. Although her other
siblings take offense at the way she’s
__________________ to Lillian Jean,
__________________ recognizes what
Cassie’s doing, and by telling the others to
__________________________, he
encourages her to find her own way of
maintaining __________________ in a society
that makes it very hard to do so.
One day after __________________
goes back North, __________________ has
a talk with __________________ in the
forest. He explains that there are a lot of
things she’ll have __________________ in
order to survive, even though she won’t want
to do them. Papa adds that her temper could
_______________________. The only
respect that matters, however, is the
____________ she has for
__________________. Papa then says that
he’ll trust Cassie to make the right decision
about __________________ —but adds that
if she makes the wrong one, she could get
the family into ____________. Cassie
promises that _______________ will never
It’s Papa’s turn to talk to ______________
about __________________ and how things
aren’t fair in life—echoing the talk
_____________ gave after the
__________________ incident. Cassie takes
his words as a sort of validation for the
__________________ she’s planning for
Lillian Jean, since he’s telling her to pick her
__________________ carefully and
strategically. If something goes wrong, it can
affect the whole __________________ family,
demonstrating how dangerous ___________
is.
