Today in first and fourth periods we learned about Emmett Till through multiple resources, including Bob Dylan’s song “The Death of Emmett Till.”
We’ll be using these sources tomorrow to construct an argument about the role Emmett Till played in the Civil Rights movement, This is all in conjunction with To Kill a Mockingbird.
Second and seventh periods worked on a reading engagement called Say Something, an activity designed to encourage use of the critical reading skills we’ve been working on this year. We used the skill to go through chapter three of Nightjohn after returning from a quick jaunt to the library.
Homework
- English I Honors: Read chapters 5-8 in To Kill A Mockingbird by tomorrow.
Mr. Scott you weree right Mr. Dylan was terrible. You’re song was way better.
Wow – this is fascinating. I have actually been to Money, Mississippi (around 1993), and residents there *still* brought up this incident. This was an earlier — but often neglected — episode that set the stage for the civil rights movement in the Deep South. Thanks for letting our students hear about this.
It must be something to live in a town where your biggest claim to fame is an atrocity. On a larger scale, people still live in the city of Oswiecim in Poland, known better by its Germanized name the Nazis gave it when they built the world’s most notorious death camp there: Auschwitz. The Till case is part of the larger unit we’re working on with argument and the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s not as known as you noted as Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience or the March on Washington, but I’m starting to see it as equally important, perhaps more so as a catalyst for it all. It will play into the novel well as the plot develops.