HW DUE TODAY: Chapter 13 synopsis and vocabulary.

ENTRY TASK: Recreational reading - make sure you're caught up through chapter 14.

ACTIVITY: Today we made Theme Posters for To Kill a Mockingbird. If you were absent, choose one of the themes and make a poster on your own. The themes are Prejudice, Tolerance, Education, Parenting, Courage, Growing Up, Justice, and Seeing things from someone else's point of view.

Read ALL instructions before beginning, and then follow them carefully.

STEP ONE:  Find excerpts from To Kill a Mockingbird that illustrate the theme you have been assigned (the big word at the top of this page). The group leader should mark down the page numbers as you find them. You should find at least five excerpts.

STEP TWO: On the art paper provided, clearly write down your theme. Then draw a picture that represents that theme as it is presented in this book. The drawing may be literal (e.g. a drawing of Atticus carrying Miss Maudie’s chair out of her burning house to represent Courage) or symbolic (e.g. a chess board with black and white pieces to represent Justice). This picture should not take up the entire page.

STEP THREE: Pick the three best excerpts that you found that represent your theme. Copy them onto your poster. You must include the page numbers, and you must be able to explain why you chose that excerpt if asked.

STEP FOUR: Use magazines or your own artistic ability to add four more images to your poster. These four images should represent your theme on a broader scale – that is, outside of the novel. Again, these images may be literal or symbolic representations of your theme.

STEP FIVE: At the end of class, share your poster with everyone else.

HOMEWORK: Half-page synopses for chapters 14 and 15.