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Tag Archives: Harper Lee
Misochronism and 8th grade graduation
The end of the school year is enormously busy. And if one is retiring, activities are even further ramped up— including this year being asked by the student body to deliver the faculty address at 8th grade graduation. It is … Continue reading
Posted in school, students, Teaching
Tagged 8th grade graduation, Bradbury, graduation speech, Harper Lee, meaning, middle school, students, teaching, ubuntu, words
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Annotating To Kill a Mockingbird
My student’s amazing graphic annotation of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Posted in animation, creativity, school, students
Tagged animation, annotations, creativity, flip book, Harper Lee, middle school, school, student, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee 1926-2016 RIP
Some previous posts connected to Harper Lee: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Harper Lee Harper Lee is not immune Zack Graham’s To Kill a Mockingbird Problem…and Ours Scuppernongs
Posted in race, school, students, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, race, racism, school, scuppernongs, students, Ta-Nehisi Coates, teaching, To Kill a Mockingbird, white privilege, writing, Zack Graham
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Zack Graham’s To Kill a Mockingbird Problem… and Ours
The following is reprinted from the National Book Review, written by one of my former students. His words are followed by a short letter to him from me. Essay— My To Kill a Mockingbird Problem…. and Ours By Zack Graham … Continue reading
Posted in race, writing
Tagged abstracts, Atticus, Harper Lee, National Book Review, racism, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, writing, Zack Graham
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and Harper Lee
I’m not sure what possessed me to read these two books back to back— Between the World and Me and Go Set a Watchman. Because I read Go Set a Watchman first, all I could do while reading Go Set … Continue reading
Harper Lee is not immune
Today in class I showed the courtroom scene from the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird. Though the movie is a pale reflection of the book, like most movies based on books, the courtroom scene is not too bad—Gregory Peck … Continue reading
Posted in perspective, point of view
Tagged Atticus, civil rights, Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, Maycomb, Mayella, point of view, racism, To Kill a Mockingbird, white privilege
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How 8th graders prefer to annotate text 3 1/2 weeks before the end of the school year
Posted in books, school, Teaching
Tagged 8th graders, annotations, Harper Lee, literature, photography, school, students, teaching, text, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Settling in with an old friend
We have just finished To Kill A Mockingbird. It’s the last book we read every year and to tell the truth, each year I can’t wait to get to it. Not because it signals the coming of summer, but because … Continue reading
Posted in books, writing
Tagged books, Harper Lee, justice, literature, racism, To Kill a Mockingbird, writing
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