We are reading To Kill a Mockingbird this month. The final test will be given on May 5 and 6. Be sure to refer to your assignment calendar as we study this powerful novel.
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Monday, April 5, 2004
Prewrite:
Lesson: To Kill a Mockingbird Pre-reading Activity: Depression Era
HOMEWORK: Paper bag due on Tuesday, April 13. Trackstar activity due on Thursday, April 8. (Use first link below.)
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Prewrite:
Lesson: To Kill a Mockingbird Pre-reading Activity: Present Depression impressions. Fill out "What's Your Position" worksheet.
HOMEWORK:
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Prewrite:
Lesson: To Kill a Mockingbird Pre-reading Activities: Check out novel.
HOMEWORK: To Kill a Mockingbird Trackstar due tomorrow. Use first link below.
Thursday, April 8, 2004
Prewrite:
Lesson: Read chapters 1 - 3 in class. (We will play the CD as you follow along.)
HOMEWORK: handout
Friday, April 9, 2004
Prewrite:
Lesson: Discuss first 3 chapters. Defining courage, prejudice, and growing up posters. Due at the end of the hour.
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 4, 5, and 6. (28 pages) Do handout. Paper bag due next Tuesday.
Monday, April 12, 2004
Prewrite: Discuss chapters 4, 5, and 6. Take notes on characters and what they have learned about life so far.
HOMEWORK: Read chapters 7 and 8. Do handout. Paper bag due tomorrow. Be ready to share.
Tuesady, April 13, 2004 EARLY OUT DAY
Paper bag activity in class
Discuss chapters 7 and 8.
HOMEWORK: Write an essay about your impressions of today's activity. See instructions. Due Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Listen to chapter 9 in class.
HOMEWORK: handout
Thursday, April 15, 2004 Discussion in class.
HOMEWORK: Write out your answer to one of the 7 questions discussed in your small group. (Typed, double-spaced, size 12 font, 250 words or more)
Friday, April 16, 2004 Read chapter 12 in class.
HOMEWORK: Read 13 and 14. Do handout.
Monday, April 19, 2004 Listen to chapter 15 in class.
HOMEWORK: Read 16 and 17.
Do handout for chapters 15 and 16. You do not have one for 17 yet.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Video today: Scottsboro, An American Tragedy This case that sparked the Civil Rights Movement runs parallel to the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
HOMEWORK: Writing Activity: Responding to the video.
Monday, April 26, 2004 Newspaper activity from last Friday's KC Star.
HOMEWORK: Find two other articles in the Star that deal with discrimination of any kind. Write up the 5 W's about the article and also a commentary with supporting detail.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Share commentaries with the class. Listen to "Strange Fruit," a poem and song. Read chapter 25.
HOMEWORK: Type out paragraph answers to the 4 questions you have been given.
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