Choosing Novels

Preceding the sharing of the text with students an explanation would occur as to why this particular text was being introduced. It would be stated that the text will be read primarily for enjoyment but also to use the opportunity to explore the themes, structure and features of different text genres. The title, cover and blurb would be used to encourage students to make predictions about the text and what it might be about (see appendix 1).

such as the structure, form and the plot that really puts the book together or the setting that helps

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee should be read and taught in school considering the facts that it teaches the important message of learning to stand in other’s shoes, and that the reader can see the wide range of diversity such as socioeconomic status and race. In the real world, we will come across many different people with different backgrounds and views. It is easy to look at those people and think, “they are strange,” or “they don’t understand anything.” I admit, before reading this book I was insensitive to this and didn’t even realize when I looked at people and made those assumptions. This book has helped me be not so judgmental and be able to see from other people’s point of view. While some may say this book shouldn’t be taught because it is “racist” or

To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) by Harper Lee, based in 1930’s Alabama, follows Scout, a six year old girl, as she navigates through the moral jungle of the racist south while her father defends an alleged black rapist. Although it is often glorified for pioneering new racial awareness but in this new reality of racism, that is 2017, it fails to provide students with a proper education of the issue at hand. Scout, being one of the many white main characters, explores racism but lacks the ability to properly educate today’s ninth graders. Therefore, TKAM should not be a core 9th-grade book at BHS because it negatively portrays people of color and mismatches today’s classroom.

I am a representative of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. and I would like to explain why Outline by Rachel Cusk is the perfect novel to incorporate into the grade eleven English curriculum. Outline is the ideal novel for the curriculum because through Cusk’s experiences as a writer, traveller, wife, and single mother, she was able to transpose the lessons she learned onto paper for us to read. This allows us to accompany her through a journey of relationships and consequences. This novel relates to the current grade eleven university course themes the students are already studying, which include family dysfunction, escapism, and appearance versus reality. Teens can relate to Outline because the issues that are present in the novel, are also

This learning activity has the students looking more deeply into their chosen book using a more critical mind rather than just enjoying the book for its basic story line. It has them taking note of what is happening at each stage of the book and why these events are taking place, then taking this information they have gathered and developing a written report to convey their thoughts and ideas in the book along with developing the skills necessary to produce a piece of writing that is easy to read and understand for the reader. This activity also has a lot of hidden features to the task, such as using the correct grammar, development of sentence structure and use of creative thinking to make the piece interesting to the reader.

Discrimination, it has been part of human nature for a long time, especially relevant subject in literature such as To Kill a Mockingbird. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the main character of Scout Finch was exposed to different types of discrimination as she grows up. Discrimination affected the lives of characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird because of society’s prejudicial views of race, gender, and class.

In college, there are two main classifications of books: those read because they are required reading and those read because they are desired reading. Sometime however, a book can be read to both fulfill a class requirement, and be enjoyed on its own merit: The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor, by Patricia J Williams, is one such book. It is obvious what makes a book required reading, but what is it that makes a book desired, enjoyable, even fulfilling reading? In a polling of several university students, the most common responses to this question were: “the book must be well written”; “a book in which the reader can personally relate to the writer or characters is held in much

Emily Noble Ms. Williams Advanced English II, 4th Period 15 May 2018 To Kill a Mockingbird Final Argument     To Kill a Mockingbird was published longer than sixty years ago, and is still considered a huge hit, and a must read. People are curious as to why most students from 8th through 12th grade will be required to read, study, and be tested on Harper Lee’s novel. To Kill a Mockingbird is about a young girl and her brother who are faced with difficult situations when they realize racism in their town. To Kill a Mockingbird is still important to study in classrooms because it shows what life and racism was like in the 1930’s through a personal perspective of a child to make her circumstances more understandable through the readers eyes.

Isis Introduction Isis is one of the oldest gods of ancient Egyptian mythology. Consequently, as time changes so does mythology, and different versions of the same god develop. Mythology tends to be confusing and complex, and Isis is no exception. The name Isis is a Greek name, her Egyptian name is Aset, or Ast, Iset, and Uset, all meaning “Female of Throne” or “Queen of Throne”.

For now, I'll set aside considerations of why The Goal is a novel, how effective it is as a book, whether it succeeds as literature, and so on. This article is primarily about the ideas behind the book, and why some are valuable while others are probably quite useless.

Although, the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is well known, it is the work of fiction that has really stood out to me and has helped me understand the complexity of the world. This is the most important book I have read when it comes to helping me understand why the world is very complicated when it comes to treating people equally. One of the reasons this book stood out to me to because it is based on racism. Racism is a major problem in today’s society and it really concerns me. As I have gotten older, I have begun to realize how important it is to try and help out others and be nice because when I think about it I would want someone to do the same for me. In this novel, it not only shows how hatred comes about when a white lawyer tries to

Discrimination is prevalent in the story “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the most obvious being the excessive amount of racism (Lee). Racism is the easiest to see but there are more forms of discrimination (Lee). Boo Radley is ostracized from the community when truly nobody really knows him (Lee). People discriminate Scout for being a tomboy not a lady (Lee). The last one that no one ever thinks about is how reverse racism is seen when people threaten Atticus for defending Tom Robinson in court (Lee). Discrimination in any form is a controversial topic but everyone knows that it is not right to discriminate against people.

In the riveting coming-of-age novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee projects the idea of acceptance of all people, through the eyes of a child. Harper Lee combats the prejudice of social standing when she proves that some of the poorest people have the best of character traits. While racism of African Americans is first and foremost in this novel, the acceptance of white people into the African American community shows racism can be beaten from both point of views. Finally, the disabilities that Arthur Radley portrays, is forgotten, when his actions help him soar above the bigotry of the people of Maycomb County. The most obvious topic is the overt racism based on a person's skin color, however, Harper Lee takes us beneath the skin to show that discrimination occurs in other ways.

It is commonly acknowledged that Literature is the reflection of the society. It is indeed true that literature reflects the attitude and perception of the society where it is written. Literature mirrors the vices of the society with an intention to make the society realize its mistakes and make amendments. The vast literature, produced from time to time, bears evidence to the fact that man is prone to discrimination. Treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their sexuality, skin, and class has, been core theme of the Harper lee’s master piece To Kill a Mocking Bird. The novel is told from Scout’s perspective; through Scout, we witness the social construction of race, class, and gender. The novel continues to be taught in classrooms due to its illustration