Read amazing piece of writing and play the revision history: writing is HARD
High School summer reading link
Grammar and lit terms groups
After analyzing my door, here is an inference activity to further your thinking. See THROUGH these pictures and a viral photo that had people a little bamboozled HERE
In preparation for a class discussion on To Kill a Mockingbird, please do some research on the following topics: (Remember to Take Honorable Hand Written Notes)
- The Great Depression
- Hoovervilles
- The New Deal (Roosevelt)
- How the writing of TKAM may have been influenced by the author's childhood
- The Scottsboro Trials
- Jim Crow laws
- TKAM Vocabulary
- Racial Aspects of the present society
- A good MAD 40 exemplar and a lesson on not being PLOT PIGS
INJUSTICE QUESTIONS (each student should come up with a minimum of one supporting element for these questions)
Social Justice
1. What is social justice?
2. To what extent does power or the lack of power affect individuals?
3. What is oppression and what are the root causes?
4. How are prejudice and bias created? How do we overcome them?
5. What are the responsibilities of the individual in regard to issues of social justice?
6. How can literature serve as a vehicle for social change?
7. When should an individual take a stand against what he/she believes to be an injustice? What are the most effective ways to do this?
8. What are the factors that create an imbalance of power within a culture?
9. What does power have to do with fairness and justice?
10. When is it necessary to question the status quo? Who decides?
11. What are the benefits and consequences of questioning / challenging social order?
12. How do stereotypes influence how we look at and understand the world?
13. What does it mean to be invisible? (context: minorities)
14. In what ways can a minority keep their issues on the larger culture’s “radar screen?”
15. What creates prejudice, and what can an individual overcome it?
16. What are the causes and consequences of prejudice and injustice, and how does an individual’s response to them reveal his/her true character?
17. What allows some individuals to take a stand against prejudice/oppression while others choose to participate in it?
18. What are the causes and consequences of prejudice and how does an individual’s response to it reveal his/her morals, ethics, and values?
To more fully understand situations in To Kill a Mockingbird, view:
Activities Relating to, To Kill a Mockingbird:
- Homeless Man Picture Analysis. (What is the back story? What can you see through the pic?)