Welcome to SPRING!!!

After completing your TKAM test, you may work on your essay outline (posted at classroom), finish up the paragraph rewrite from Friday OR…work on anything for another class so long as you are not being disruptive.

VOCAB WARMUP slides 29-31

CRASH COURSE: TKAM

VOCAB WARMUP: SLIDES 26-28

LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of today’s class you should be able identify the difference between a so-so and a pretty good topic sentence.

Samples

VOCAB WARMUP: Slides 23-25

LEARNING TARGETS: AS A RESULT OF TODAY’S CLASS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO

1. Be able to explain the difference between a high/medium/low and AI generated paragraph.
2. Be able to explain what is required on each of the essay options for the TKAM essay.

Learning Targets: As a result of today’s class you should be able to

A) Correctly pronounce all UNIT 8 vocab words.

B) Be able to explain what is required of you on each of the essay questions for TKAM.

VOCAB WARMUP: Slides 38-39-40

Learning Targets: As a result of today’s class you should be able to

1. Make connections between TKAM and JUST MERCY.
2. Explain the key ideas of 22-26 and how events in those chapters reinforce themes in the novel.

In class:

1. Complete writing assignment (at classroom)
2. Class discussion/lecture/group work: Ch. 22-26

Vocab Warmup

FRIDAY: 32-34

MONDAY 35-38

TUESDAY 39-40

WED: Whatever is left!

In class we will be watching the film Just Mercy . It deals with similar themes to To Kill a Mockingbird.

The film, which takes place in the late 1980s and early 90s, tells the TRUE story of Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer, just out of Harvard who gets a grant from the Federal Government to start a law clinic designed to help people who are in prison but perhaps were not given proper legal assistance when on trial. The most important client we see him work with is a man named Johnny D, who has been convicted of a murder that he says he did not commit. (Interestingly, Johnny D’s crime took place in Harper Lee’s home town).

Expectations when watching the film

• You should be watching attentively (your unit test will have items on it from the film and at least one essay option will include the film).
• No sleeping, no computer, no doing homework for other classes.

LEARNING TARGETS: as a result of watching the film, you should be able to

• recount the important elements from the plot
• be able to compare the justice system in Alabama in the late 1980s/early 90s (the film) with the system we see in the novel (1930s).
• Be able to explain what obstacles lawyers like Stevenson had to go through to get clients access to fair justice.

VOCAB WARMUP SLIDES 29-31

LEARNING TARGET: as a result of today’s class you should be able to

1. Apply Atticus’ quote on p. 33 (see the world through others’ eyes) to both
   • Mayella Ewell
   • Dolphus Raymond
2. Understand why the crowd in the Balcony responds to Atticus in the way it does.
3. Explain why you think Harper Lee wrote the verdict in the way she did.
4. Answer this question: If the trial is over but the book still has 80 pages to go, what does that tell us as readers?

LEARNING TARGETS: As a result of today’s class you should be able to

1. Use evidence to determine which version of the events at the Ewell home you think is more reliable.
2. Explain the purpose of Dolphus Raymond’s appearance in the story.
3. Be able to analyze the big idea in Atticus’ closing arguments

VOCAB WARMUP: Slide 24-26

Learning Targets: As a result of today’s class you should be able to

Analyze the key events from Ch. 16-19 as presented in this slide show