The To Kill a Mockinbird test will require you to answer five paragraph-long responses from this list of questions. On the day of the test, I will give you six questions and and you will choose five to answer. To prepare for the test, please review the book and go back over key passages. High-scoring responses will reference specific details from the text and contain a strong central argument.
Your next writing assignment is a creative response to To Kill a Mockingbird, with the prompts you can choose from located here.
Everyone should complete at least one of the assigned tasks, but you can receive extra credit for completing a second one.
The assignment is due on Wednesday, April 13.
We’ll meet tonight at 7:00 at Scenic Brew to discuss the New York Times Room for Debate called Testing Students’ True Grit. It’s four brief articles, so try to have read them all.
Your third essay is due on Friday, March 25 in class and should be over the topic of marijuana legalization or the Confederate flag. The essay is due in class on Friday. If you are leaving early for break, you will need to make arrangements to submit the essay to me before leaving.
There are packets of research included for both topics, and you will need to do some additional outside research. Please do not wait until the last minute to complete this assignment, as you will find it quite challenging to complete it in one night. If you divide up the paragraphs the way we have discussed the rest of the quarter, you should be able to easily write one paragraph each night and have the assignment done quite easily.
This post will have the Works Cited information for the articles I provided here by Monday evening.
As we progress through the unit, we’ll watch a few videos and clips, which will be collected here.
We’ll meet tonight at Scenic Brew at 7:00 to discuss Why Online Gradebooks Are Changing Education by Laura McKenna.
