Today we completed, for all intents and purposes, To Kill a Mockingbird, with students solving the mystery they were working on Thursday and Friday last week: what really happened to Bob Ewell? HomeworkEnglish I Honors: we will have the comprehension...
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...
The kids wrote another TDA today. I’ll be giving them feedback over the next couple of weeks regarding this as we near the final, actual TDA portion of the state-mandated year-end testing. Since it was a testing schedule, we only had a few minutes in each class....
Today, students participated in what is always one of the highlights of the year: Mr. Jim Bannister of the Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey law firm discusses with students the Tom Robinson trial from the perspective of a trained and experienced criminal defense lawyer...
Students today finished working on the enigmatic twenty-fourth chapter of Mockingbird, which includes this passage that stumps all the kids every year: Mrs. Merriweather nodded wisely. Her voice soared over the clink of coffee cups and the soft bovine sounds of the...
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