To Teach or Not to Teach To Kill a Mockingbird

Why I'm Tired of Teaching To Kill A Mockingbird

It should not be taught as a moral guide, as a book where students relate to the characters, which means it should not be taught to high school ...

To Teach or Not to Teach To Kill a Mockingbird - Facing History

To Kill a Mockingbird is undoubtedly a lightning rod, but it is also a cultural barometer. Paying attention to the conversation around it can ...

Should We Still be Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird? - Off the Leash

To Kill a Mockingbird should not be taught in high school. The 281 pages of this 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner are told from the perspective of a 6-year-old white ...

Why Should We Continue to Teach To Kill A Mockingbird in Our ...

The many racist and conflicting topics that are present in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird causes many schools to want to ban the book ...

Should U.S. schools keep To Kill a Mockingbird in the curriculum?

Yes, the book is fine, but its themes have been tackled by many better writers since, (Eliison, Baldwin, so many others). By all means, teach it ...

Why I Kept Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird When Others Wouldn't

Others, like recently retired teacher Ann Freemon, who taught high school English for most of her 34 years as a teacher and To Kill a ...

Episode 1: To Teach or To Kill a Mockingbird — Teaching While White

Atticus Finch says not to ask questions we do not know the answers to. Yet, in teaching this novel, we are asking students to grapple with all sorts of things ...

How is "To Kill A Mockingbird" inappropriate for school? - Reddit

In my school board, we used to teach "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee in grade 10 English. In recent years the book has been removed from ...

3 Reasons Why We Still Need to Teach To Kill a Mockingbird

In 2015, Harper Lee released only her second novel, Go Set A Watchman, a follow up to her classic To Kill A Mockingbird.

Should 'To Kill A Mockingbird' still be taught in schools?

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is well written and contains essential subjects to discuss; nevertheless, it is not well taught in school.

Forget Atticus: Why We Should Stop Teaching 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

The school board in Biloxi, Mississippi, voted to ban To Kill a Mockingbird because, they say, “There is some language in the book that makes people ...

Should I teach To Kill a Mockingbird? - TeachNovels.com

This post will examine both sides of the controversy in order to help you reach the decision that is best for you and your students.

What to Do After Decades of Teaching 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Wrong?

Just, you know, take a walk in her shoes, dude, I might sneer, interrupting a teacher's account of an encounter with a difficult student's ...

We Shouldn't Always Feel Comfortable: Why 'To Kill a Mockingbird ...

So, a confession: To Kill a Mockingbird is not my favorite book to teach. Don't get me wrong—I have a lot of affection for the book. I read it ...

Why Are We Still Teaching 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in Schools?

Every student who reads Lee's book does not identify with Atticus or with Scout, and teaching it as though they do, or they must, may reinforce ...

How Do We Teach “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Honestly Confront ...

The educators there were predominantly White women. One 35-year classroom veteran estimated she had taught the book 20 to 25 times. As a child, ...

We Shouldn't Always Feel Comfortable: Why 'To Kill a Mockingbird ...

... for Teacher Quality, and Teaching Tolerance. So, a confession: To Kill a Mockingbird is not my favorite book to teach. Don't get me wrong—I ...

Shannon: Here's why we teach To Kill a Mockingbird | Ottawa Citizen

To Kill A Mockingbird is about discrimination – racial, economic and the fear of the unknown. · An argument against the book is that students may ...

Is it time to put “To Kill a Mockingbird” out to pasture? - Kevin Drum

A few days ago the Washington Post ran a story about some high school teachers in Washington state who wanted to stop teaching To Kill a ...

It's Not Kids' Stuff: Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird - Humanities Texas

A teacher workshop in Houston focusing on the classic novel as well as contemporaneous writings from the civil rights movement.