Name: Discussions Questions

Directions: After reading “Jim Crow Policing,” complete the following discussion questions in complete sentences. Highlight your responses.

Introduction

• In the introduction, how does Herbert establish the significance of racial profiling?

Body

• Why does the author start with statistics in paragraph 2? How do they start to make the essay’s point?

• What point is Herbert making when he breaks the data down by race?

• Why does the author talk about the reasons New York police stop people? What does that have to do with his main argument?

• What is the main point of this essay? What examples does Herbert cite to make his point?

• What are the consequences of racial profiling?

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

explanation:

you only need simple sentences to answer this. just answer these questions.

what do you think annie thinks of the mother? do you think annie believes the mother is a fit mother for helen.

what about the father? what would annie think of him? she might not like him, but does she respect him.

how about the son? would annie think he is the only voice of sanity in an insane place?

what about helen herself? this is the key question. how does she see helen? what do you suppose she thought her first job was going to be.

these aren't hard questions. just state the obvious. annie is not that well educated: she just knows what she has to do. write it that way.

you can do it if you've read the book or seen the play or movie.

cause they were to dumb to get their college education to become a real   : )

i believe it is the bright red satin shirt.