Mayella and Boo: Class notes After a discussion in y11 around an essay which asked for ‘children who suffer’ in the novel to be compared, we developed this list. I suggest that students find evidence to support these statements and …
Tag: Harper Lee
Mockingbird: opening thoughts
Mockingbird Chapter 1,2,&,3 Ask any student what the first chapter of a novel is “for” and soon enough someone will pipe up with something about “wanting to make the reader read on”. Once the dust has settled and you have …
Mockingbird and Violence: response to essay.
Explore the presentation of violence in To kill A Mockingbird. These slides were prepared by a yr 11 class after an essay question (above). The idea was that we would track Lee's presentation of violence through the novel and then …
Approaching a “character” question in an exam.
This post has come about after marking a series of mock IGCSE English Literature papers. For many of the boys I teach and work with, there is a reluctance to really engage with the question and the writing is really …
Go set a watchman: thoughts
Since I am still teaching in an IGCSE centre, To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of my set texts. Even if it had been dropped by the board, I suspect I would be teaching it anyway, probably in Year 9, …
Mockingbird table top plans
Year 10 worked to create plans for two questions: "Explore the significance of Heritage in the novel" '"The summer is going to be a hot one" - explore this quotation with particular focus on ch 12-15" Their work is on …
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