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Teaching Adolescents’ Literature!
July 8th 2015
To Kill a Mockingbird
•  RR
•  What are some significant issues you
need to address before, during and/
or after reading the texts?
•  Connecting to other texts. •  How can you make the themes of this
book relevant to the 21st century
student?
•  John Daly
To Kill a Mockingbird
•  Visualizing To Kill a Mockingbird
Finch family
Radley family
Miss Maudie
Miss Dubose
Calpurnia’s
church
Cunninghams
Ewells
Miss Crawford
Jailhouse
Courthouse
Atticus’ Office
The School house
Town Dump
Link Deas
Direction to Finch’s Landing Banned/Challenging Books
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*sigh* LA Times The Guardian Sherman Alexie’s response John Green To Kill a Mockingbird Short Stories: Discussions
• Go to:
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• User name – lled4492015
• Password – reading2015
• Use the stickies to jot down/share
ideas. Short Stories: "
Group Discussion
•  Working in your short story groups consider the
following:
•  RR – How did you feel about the stories?
•  Discuss the following, which you will report back to
the class:
•  Provide a brief plot outline of the stories.
•  CR – select 1 passage from each story that you feel is
relevant/significant/striking, etc. Be prepared to
discuss. •  How would you approach teaching the stories? •  That is:
1.  How would you engage the students? I.e.
activities? 2.  Is there a connection between the stories?
3.  What are some issues you would need to address?
(‘frontloading)
Visualizing Short Stories: "
Plot Analysis
•  Freytag’s Pyramid.
•  Problems?
•  Other methods to analysis/visualize plot.
Other Methods
• Voyant
• Mandala
Short Stories: Activity
•  Returning to your short story groups – choose one of
the short stories and create a visual method of
analysis.
•  Remember you can take any approach besides
analyzing plot: time, character relationships/
development, reader reaction, etc.
•  If you so wish, you may use both stories and
interconnect them in some way(s).