Few chapters are as initially bewildering as the tea party scene in chapter 24. It makes little sense because the women are all intentionally being somewhat obtuse, and while they all understand...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Wrapping up the Trial
Students today completed the trial work with some comprehension questions about the chapters (17-23) as well as a little additional work on their testimony sketches in preparation for our meeting...
Analysis of Testimony
Students today looked at the testimony presented in the novel, with each group/pod taking a specific character's testimony and sketching it out step-by-step. We will be using this on the Tuesday...
The Crime Scene
During this lovely spring day today, students began a two-day look at the trial of Tom Robinson, focusing on the scene of the alleged crime. We sketched out the Ewell cabin and property. [gallery...
AOW, Geography, and Clauses
We began today going over the AOW that I handed back today. We looked specifically at the following words: concede redolent fraught exclave utopic In addition, we went over a little geography to...
Socratic Seminar about Characters
Today we finished what we began yesterday by holding a Socratic seminar about the question of which minor character in Mockingbird is the most moral. [gallery...
Presentations
Today, we began the presentations prepared yesterday. We didn't quite finish, so we'll work on that Monday. Tomorrow is online...
Discussion Preparation
Students today began working on presentations for tomorrow about one of three questions. Calpurnia and the First Purchase African M.E. Church What is Calpurnia’s purpose in the novel? In order to...
2 Discussions from the Book
Students today looked at two discussion questions that they worked on as a group before responding to other groups' ideas. We'll be expanding this to a group presentation and whole-class discussion...
Clauses
Today, after the phrase quiz, we worked on using phrases and clauses together to break sentences down into constituent parts. If the sentence is the base unit, then the next smallest unit would be...
Scout’s Reliability
Today we did a little new work with the article of the week: students shared with each other in their groups about the context clues they found for the word "fraught" in the article. Afterward,...
Long Sentences and Point of View
Today we worked on how to parse some of Lee's longer sentences in the novel. They'll tend to fade away as we read, but at the moment, we've got to work through some pretty complicated sentences. We...
