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The Water Dancer Thematic Idea  Tracker 

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The Water Dancer Thematic Idea  Tracker 

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Small Group:

Directions: Your group will need to find 2-3 quotes that support your assigned thematic idea. Each quote must be correctly cited (Coates 43).

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You will review the Padlet and record a quote for 3 different Thematic Ideas. (This will be recorded on your digital tracker).

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"He was a driver because he was the wisest- wiser than any of them whites, and their whole lives depended on him." (Coates 17).

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"'I can't be your mother. I cant be Rose. She was a beautiful woman, with the kindest heart. I liked her and I do not like many anymore. She did not gossip and she kept to herself. I cant be what she was to you. But you have chosen me, I understand that. I want you to know that I understand.' " (Coates 19).

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"He could spend an hour walking among your wheat fields and tell you about the harvest three years from now or put his hand on your tobacco hillocks, feel the heartbeat of the earth"(Coates 55).

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"Her habit was to scowl at us children for playing our rowdy games within earshot... I heard that Thena had not always been this way, that in another life, one lived right here on the Street, she was a mother not just to five children of her own but to all the children of the street" (Coates 14).

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"Big John wasn't no driver ' cause he was the meanest like Harlan. He was a driver because he was the wisest-wiser than any of them whites, and their whole lives depended on him." (caotes 17)

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"I remembered because I remembered everything"(Coates 14).

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"Through the shadows I saw my father, exhausted by the need of his first born son, give me a pained and sideways look and then tug at his beard, and this was a gesture I could read. Guard your brother, it said, and I knew it for I had seen it for half my life." (Coates 41).

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“To forget is to truly slave. To forget is to die.” “To remember, friend,” she said. “For memory is the chariot, and memory is the way, and memory is bridge from the curse of slavery to the boon of freedom.”

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"I do not claim to have loved Sofia then, though I thought I did. I was young and love to me was s fuse that was lit, not garden that was grown." (54)

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In the text it states that " I can now say slavery murdered him, That slavery made a child of him." (7)

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" 'Rosie's boy gettin' big.' Rosie's boy, that is what they called me down in the Street though I had not heard a greeting such as this in some time, cause there were so few left who still remembered me as such." (Coates 57).

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"when we were closer I took in the stone columuns, the portico and the fanlight over the entrance it all was so magnificat....belonged to me. it was mine by blood" (page22)

( I choose this quote becese it shows how blinded hi was because he thought that he could own the big house one day)

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The memory that Hiram has of his mom's disappearance

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The memory that Hiram has of his mom's disappearance

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"It had happened before. It happened when I was nine years old, the day after my mother was taken and sold. I awoke that cold winter morning knowing she was gone as a fact. But I had no pictures, no memory, or any goodbye, indeed no pictures at all." (Caotes 11)

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"And then I asked if she would be so kind as to let me inspect them. Having done this, I handed them back to her and asked that she place them each on the table, face down in any order. I watched her hands until the small coffee table was covered with maps in miniature. - I asked that she pick up a card and show it to anyone she pleased except me" (Coates 28).

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"And I could only seen her there on the stone bridge, a dancer wreathed in ghostly blue,because that was the way they would have taken her back when I was young..."(1)

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¨would you like to work with Mr.Fields....I could not yet acknowledge all that this moment..should I sir? I think you should. Then yes sir i will¨

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"Then everything fell away,the chains Maynard, the fields itself, and I was enveloped in the blackness of night.And then the black branches of the forest sprang up around me,and I was alone, afraid and lost until looking I saw a sliver moon,and then the heavens blinked.....I saw something else: the mark of my future days wreathed in brilliant but ghostly blue, and mark was the North Star."(44)