To Kill a Mockingbird ends with a bit of a mystery for eighth-grade students: what exactly happened to Bob Ewell? To solve this mystery, students worked through seven excerpts from the text in a gallery walk engagement.
As students read, talked, and annotated, they came to realize the first of the mystery (e.g., what is the mystery) elements: what exactly happened to Bob Ewell?
It hinges on three questions:
- What does Atticus think happened?
- What will Heck Tate say happened?
- What actually happened?
Students made questions and annotations as they worked through the mystery:
We’ll be finishing up the work on this on Monday.
Homework
- English I Honors: none.
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