Language Arts 9 assignment
Due Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Mrs. Marston

Respond to To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Choose 1 of the following:

H -1. Keep a Response Log as you read a section of the book. Reflect on your thoughts and feelings; what confuses or upsets you; what you consider significant and why. (Example: On pages in a journal, write two columns: What you notice. What do you think about what you noticed?) 
                        
H -2. A book reflects the viewpoints of the author. Learn about Harper Lee, when she lived and where. Find out the life experiences that may have motivated her to write the book. Write the ways you think this book reflects Harper Lee’s personal experiences. 
                         
3. List 4 major episodes in the book. Use your list to identify the time of events, shifts in points of view, the relationships of episodes and themes. 
                        
4. Draw a map or make a model of the places in which the actions of the book happen. Place the characters in their communities. 
                        
5. Create a collage of artwork (of your own creation) of what you consider important images from the book. 
                        
6. Create a poster for a new movie based on the book. Include pictures of today's actors whom you might cast in the main roles. 
                        
H - 7. Produce a newspaper from the place and time in the book. Write feature articles on "current events" from the book:
advertisements, editorials, letters to the editor, church news, obituaries. 
                        
8. Create a diary that you think a main character might have kept. Record the dates of the entries and the way the character is feeling about what is happening to or around him/her in the book. 
                         
H - 9. Find out more about the themes of the book or other details from the book that interest you, or points that arouse your curiosity. (For example:historical events, geographic settings, famous people referred to).
Writing tips:
Make the paragraph the unit of composition Use the active voice.
Put the statements in positive form. Use definite, specific, concrete language.
Omit needless words. Avoid a succession of loose sentences.
Express coordinate ideas in similar form. Keep related words together.
In summaries, keep to one tense. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.