Assignments and Due Dates
January 21st: Have chapters 23-31 read and Reading Roles completed
January 27th: Have scene, theme, and evidence chosen for your essay January 30th: Completed Thesis Statements due by end of class February 5th: Essay Rough Draft due |
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Google Classroom Codes:
1st Hour: uq3su6m 2nd Hour: pnz3hyt |
To Kill a Mockingbird Resources
Chapters 23-31 Group Discussion Questions
1.Discuss the irony of Maycomb. Consider its overall racist attitude juxtaposed with its positions on missionaries, Atticus’ election, or Hitler. How can people hold such different, contradictory views at the same time? Explain.
2.Write a theme for TKM as a team. (remember to make sure it is specific, arguable, applicable to the world, and derived from the text). Consider the many thematic ideas presented: childhood, maturity, racism, perspective, prejudice, justice, injustice, class, gender, tradition, progress, etc.
3.Is TKM actually racist? Explain how the novel and its portrayals actually could be interpreted as the monster it is supposed to be fighting.
2.Write a theme for TKM as a team. (remember to make sure it is specific, arguable, applicable to the world, and derived from the text). Consider the many thematic ideas presented: childhood, maturity, racism, perspective, prejudice, justice, injustice, class, gender, tradition, progress, etc.
3.Is TKM actually racist? Explain how the novel and its portrayals actually could be interpreted as the monster it is supposed to be fighting.
Chapters 23-31 Reading Roles
Group A
Progress President: Show how 3 different characters have progressed since the beginning of the story using 3 pieces of text evidence. Hatred Hatter: Use 3 pieces of text evidence to analyze Atticus’ view of hating others. Is it ever ok to hate according to Atticus? Even Hitler? Explain. Prejudice Panic: Analyze the issue of prejudice in all of its forms in Maycomb using text evidence. What doesn’t make sense? How is prejudice itself nonsensical? |
Group B
Prejudice Panic: Analyze the issue of prejudice in all of its forms in Maycomb using text evidence. What doesn’t make sense? How is prejudice itself nonsensical? Justice Juror: Describe the issues brought up about the law and fairness in Jem and Atticus’ discussion in chapter 23. Delineate what was applicable to the 1930s and what still applies to today. Progress President: Show how 3 different characters have progressed since the beginning of the story using 3 pieces of text evidence. |
Group C
Justice Juror: Describe the issues brought up about the law and fairness in Jem and Atticus’ discussion in chapter 23. Delineate what was applicable to the 1930s and what still applies to today. Irony Inquisitor: Use 3 pieces of text evidence to analyze the irony of the missionary tea in terms of race, gender, and religion. Mockingbird Marshall 2: Analyze how the metaphor of the mockingbird applies to the end of the story. Use 3 pieces of text evidence in your analysis. |
Chapters 17-22 Reading Roles
Group A
Result Revealer: Analyze how the court trial’s conclusion affect Jem, Dill, and Scout using 3 pieces of text evidence. What are their responses and what do their responses reveal about them? Jury Member: Describe the Ewell’s case against Tom Robinson and point out discrepancies using 3 pieces of text evidence. Symbol Hunter: Find 3 objects/events/characters that symbolize something other than their literal meaning. Explain what they each mean and how you came to those conclusions. |
Group B
Culture Colonel: Use 3 pieces of text evidence to analyze how Mayella’s environment influenced her testimony. Jury Member: Describe the Ewell’s case against Tom Robinson and point out discrepancies using 3 pieces of text evidence. Result Revealer: Analyze how the court trial’s conclusion affect Jem, Dill, and Scout using 3 pieces of text evidence. What are their responses and what do their responses reveal about them? |
Group C
Culture Colonel: Use 3 pieces of text evidence to analyze how Mayella’s environment influenced her testimony. Raymond Reverend: Use 3 pieces of text evidence to analyze Mr. Raymond’s relationship to race. What does his character represent? Explain. Result Revealer: Analyze how the court trial’s conclusion affect Jem, Dill, and Scout using 3 pieces of text evidence. What are their responses and what do their responses reveal about them? |