Today's Objective: Students will continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird to determine how characters influence one another.
Today's SAT Word: Feeble-minded (adj.): Easily tricked, impressionable
"Cecil Jacobs talked about how Hitler was attempting to exert control over the feeble-minded."
Today's Warm-Up Question: What character will you be writing your end-of-quarter essay about?
Today's In-Class Reading Assignment: To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapter 20)
Tonight's Homework: Finish reading chapters 27 and 28. There will be an open notes quiz on this material for next class.
If you are using the audiobook:
You will need to read and listen up through and including part 108. These two chapters should take you just under one hour's time if you are reading along with the audiobook.
End-of-Quarter Assignment (Reminder):
Students will compose an essay of 1,200 words in which they describe how any ONE character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was influenced by other characters throughout the course of the novel.
Also -- continue to bring in any rough drafts you may have for your end-of-quarter essays.
Finished essays are due BOTH as a printed copy AND as an electronic (e-mailed) copy on Wednesday, January 19. A detailed rubric for this assignment will be available online beginning on Thursday, January 6.
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