Standard 3.1 Identify the forms of fiction,
and describe the major characteristics of each.
Story:
The Gold
Cadillac
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1.2
| 2.2
| 3.1
Vocabulary
evident
rural
heedful
ignorance
This story is the
realistic novella of a preteen's experience of racism during the
beginning of the Civil Rights era.
A novella is a fictional story that is longer than a short story but
not long enough to be a book or full-length novel.
Narrator ('Lois), her
sister Wilma and her father and mother
Conflict
The family, on a car
trip, confront racism in the South
Climax
The father is jailed
as a racist police officer assumes he must have stolen the car and the
family fears what may happen.
Resolution
The family decides
what they should do
Question
Preview:
What
was the likely reason 'Lois' mother refused to ride in the Gold
Cadillac?
Why is
'Lois angry with her mother ?
What
did everyone hope would happen when 'Lois's father takes her mother to
the corner cafe?
Why do
all the adults stop laughing when the father says he's going to drive
the Cadillac from Ohio into Mississippi ?
What
made 'Lois's mother change her mind and ride in the Cadillac?
Why do
the women in the family spend days preparing food for the trip ?
What
awful events happen to the family after they cross the Mississippi
state line?
The statements
which best describes the role that the gold Cadillac plays in the
family’s life at the end of the story are that it
'Lois
says she will always remember--
Why
does ’lois’s father insist that they are rich after they sell the
Cadillac?
The Gold Cadillac takes place in the years
before the American Civil Rights
Movement ended segregation. This video is a tribute to a heroic woman, Rosa
Parks whose small stand for justice, truly changed the
world.
This story is the
realistic novella of a preteen's experience of racism during the
beginning of the Civil Rights era.