The main characters are ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon. They have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own family farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives. Coming alive in plain, vibrant language is this story of the Reconstruction, after the Civil War.
Understanding this challenging, rigorous content requires fourth grade readers to use new skills for determining theme, summarizing, explaining differences in casts of characters, setting, descriptions, and dialogue, referring to details and drawing inferences from the text, and explaining events, ideas, and concepts in a historical text. Take a look at the charts teachers use to help guide students through the reading of historical fiction.
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