Opinion on Teaching To Kill A Mockingbird
I strongly believe that To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee should be taught in school. It teaches children, teenagers, and even adults moral education and gives a history of what all went on “back then”. Jem states that “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the African Americans.” (302). I think that this is one of the most important quotes throughout the entire book. It shows the perspective of a young boy who forced to be in the middle of all of this racism. I believe that the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” should be taught in school for many …show more content…
As one may know, this generation is immensely exposed to racism. With social media brought all of this news that most people would hear about in the span of 5 minutes. When my parents were this age, they didn’t know nearly as much as my generation does. This is only because they weren’t revealed any of this and this wave of technology brought exposure to the good and the bad in our world. Although my age group is unmasked to all of this adult knowledge, I do not think that it’s bad. A lot of parents try to hide all of the bad from their children, which makes sense, but then those children never see the real world until they are 18 and are pushed out into it. With this book, we got to see all of the bad events that lots of people didn’t even know about. I think that we’re mature enough to understand not to treat anybody like that. Since we have been exposed to all of this at such a young age though, we can relate and connect to the topics in the book. This book also taught me some life lessons that should definitely be taught in school like Atticus telling the children “if you can learn a simple trick Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” …show more content…
My point of view on that, is, we as tenth graders have a pretty massive vocabulary, and our brains are farther along than one would think. I do not think that there is anything wrong with the way that it is written. As a tenth grader, I believe that I am mature enough to know not to use any of the profane language in the book, along with the nonsense words. I am pretty sure that this goes for 99% of the other tenth graders too. The old fashion writing style didn’t both me one bit as I can tell when there is a word that it supposed to be used in there, and when there is not. I think it is good for all students to learn new words, and we also do vocabulary just in case some don’t quite comprehend those more sophisticated words. I could see where she is coming from when she says that it may prevent some students from fully understanding and comprehending the book, but I think that they would be determined enough to look up the word if they really had no clue how it went along in the context of the book. I also don’t see anything wrong with using old words. Just because they were used more commonly a while ago, does not mean that they do not make sense today. Along with that, I think it would be good for us to read those old fashioned words in the book because it gives the reader more of a background on how it really went on back then. It gave me more of
I strongly believe that To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee should be taught in school. It teaches children, teenagers, and even adults moral education and gives a history of what all went on “back then”. Jem states that “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the African Americans.” (302). I think that this is one of the most important quotes throughout the entire book. It shows the perspective of a young boy who forced to be in the middle of all of this racism. I believe that the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” should be taught in school for many …show more content…
As one may know, this generation is immensely exposed to racism. With social media brought all of this news that most people would hear about in the span of 5 minutes. When my parents were this age, they didn’t know nearly as much as my generation does. This is only because they weren’t revealed any of this and this wave of technology brought exposure to the good and the bad in our world. Although my age group is unmasked to all of this adult knowledge, I do not think that it’s bad. A lot of parents try to hide all of the bad from their children, which makes sense, but then those children never see the real world until they are 18 and are pushed out into it. With this book, we got to see all of the bad events that lots of people didn’t even know about. I think that we’re mature enough to understand not to treat anybody like that. Since we have been exposed to all of this at such a young age though, we can relate and connect to the topics in the book. This book also taught me some life lessons that should definitely be taught in school like Atticus telling the children “if you can learn a simple trick Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” …show more content…
My point of view on that, is, we as tenth graders have a pretty massive vocabulary, and our brains are farther along than one would think. I do not think that there is anything wrong with the way that it is written. As a tenth grader, I believe that I am mature enough to know not to use any of the profane language in the book, along with the nonsense words. I am pretty sure that this goes for 99% of the other tenth graders too. The old fashion writing style didn’t both me one bit as I can tell when there is a word that it supposed to be used in there, and when there is not. I think it is good for all students to learn new words, and we also do vocabulary just in case some don’t quite comprehend those more sophisticated words. I could see where she is coming from when she says that it may prevent some students from fully understanding and comprehending the book, but I think that they would be determined enough to look up the word if they really had no clue how it went along in the context of the book. I also don’t see anything wrong with using old words. Just because they were used more commonly a while ago, does not mean that they do not make sense today. Along with that, I think it would be good for us to read those old fashioned words in the book because it gives the reader more of a background on how it really went on back then. It gave me more of