Literature Quote Bingo tied to Current Events

This game was produced by Terri Eichholz and is on the NY Times Learning Network.  Given in Bingo format, each square has a famous quote from literature.  The students job is to list a current event or historical real-life event or person that fits the quote.  To see the pdf click here.  Thanks to Richard Byrne for having this on his website.

Media Arts and To Kill a Mockingbird

On February 9 2016 I posted about To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Boys Trial.  To see that post click here.  Today I am posting about a lesson plan that I saw on Digital Wish that could be done collaboratively between the English teacher and the Media Arts teacher or by the English teacher if they know Photoshop.  To see the lesson plan click here.

To Kill a Mockingbird & the Scottsboro Boys Trial

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.