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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

To Kill a Mockingbird & the Scottsboro Boys Trial

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Mary Edmonds has put together a series of  lesson plans that  span 5 to 8 periods  The learning objectives for this unit are as follows:
  • to expose the students to the history and cultural milieu of the deep south in 1935 America
  • to demonstrate close contextual reading
  • to gain an awareness of how one's society might force its citizens to take unpopular, but moral stances in order to promote change 
To see the lesson plans click here.

The Scottsboro Boys with their lawyer and guards (UPI photo, March, 1933).

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