Monday: Read through chapter 14.
Tuesday: Read through chapter 17 and work on the paper that is due next Monday. Keep taking notes on the similarities between TKAM and the Scottsboro Trials.
Wednesday: Analyze the passages and post your response on Nicenet.
Thursday through Sunday: Read through chapter 27. This section includes vital passages for your paper. Pull direct quotes to defend your response to the prompt.
Remember that your paper is due on Monday!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Paper due October 31
To Kill a Mockingbird Assignment (100 points)
Required reading by everyone: “The First Scottsboro Trials (April 1931)” by
Miss Hollace Ransdall. This article can be found at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law website listed below.
Topics to consider as you read:
Miscegenation laws;
Plessy versus Ferguson;
Ruby Bates and her family;
Samuel Leibowitz;
Judge Horton’s warnings to potential lynchers;
Judge Horton’s instructions to the jury; and
Scottsboro, Alabama.
Websites:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.html
http://academic.udayton.edu/Race/02rights/jcrow02.html
Required writing by all: After you read the articles, please write a three-page paper that ties To Kill a Mockingbird to the Scottsboro Trials and Jim Crow laws. You should include direct references to the text. This paper will be due Monday, October 31.
Required reading by everyone: “The First Scottsboro Trials (April 1931)” by
Miss Hollace Ransdall. This article can be found at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law website listed below.
Topics to consider as you read:
Miscegenation laws;
Plessy versus Ferguson;
Ruby Bates and her family;
Samuel Leibowitz;
Judge Horton’s warnings to potential lynchers;
Judge Horton’s instructions to the jury; and
Scottsboro, Alabama.
Websites:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.html
http://academic.udayton.edu/Race/02rights/jcrow02.html
Required writing by all: After you read the articles, please write a three-page paper that ties To Kill a Mockingbird to the Scottsboro Trials and Jim Crow laws. You should include direct references to the text. This paper will be due Monday, October 31.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Week of October 10
10/10 - Did you read the first chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird?
10/11 - Did you read "That Evening Sun" by Faulkner? How is Joyce Carol Oates's style reminiscent of Faulkner's style?
10/12 - Read chapters two and three of To Kill a Mockingbird.
10/13 - Read chapter four. You know the text.
10/14 - Read chapter five.
Literary term of the week: Anaphora
Anaphora is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of a clause or another group of words. Anaphora imparts emphasis and creates balance.
Look back at "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Poe. Can you find several examples of this?
10/11 - Did you read "That Evening Sun" by Faulkner? How is Joyce Carol Oates's style reminiscent of Faulkner's style?
10/12 - Read chapters two and three of To Kill a Mockingbird.
10/13 - Read chapter four. You know the text.
10/14 - Read chapter five.
Literary term of the week: Anaphora
Anaphora is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of a clause or another group of words. Anaphora imparts emphasis and creates balance.
Look back at "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Poe. Can you find several examples of this?
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