it is Scout who has to remind him that charging Boo Radley with murder would "'be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird.'" The lessons Atticus has most hoped to teach his children are given back to him with that statement. At the beginning of the novel, Atticus engages Scout in a...
Yeah, says Scout: it would be (title alert) like killing a mockingbird. Chapter 31 Scout leads Boo to Jem's bed, where Boo looks at Jem "as though he had never seen a boy before" (31.9).She's got a knack for sensing Boo's mute communications. When she realizes he wants to ...
Berry writes gorgeous, thoughtful, piercing novels, and this is one of his finest. Hannah's second husband Nathan Coulter (her first died in the war) was reticent to talk about his experience in the Battle of Okinawa. "Ignorant boys, killing each other," is all he would say. In this ...
After we finished the movies, which was amazing in its own right, we started reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” next. I get through half-to-one chapter per night. Xan often falls asleep, and he has trouble following the finer details of the plot – doubly so once we hit the trial –...
There is no perfect system for teaching everything we need to teach in the limited amount of time we are given. But this way of teaching whole-class novels allows me to achieve my teaching objectives without killing the novels and/or monopolizing the entire school year with these experiences....