To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about a family known as the Finch’s who live in Maycomb County, Alabama. The author of the novel is Harper Lee. The story was written and published in 1960, and the story is set in the 1930’s. A time where black people and white people were heavily segregated from each other, and a time right around WWII and the Nazi era. The characters mainly consist of Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, Calpurnia, Boo Radley, Miss Maudie, Dill, Miss Alexandra, and Bob Ewell (these are just some of the characters). Atticus is a single father of the two children (Jem and Scout) and so he has Calpurnia to help him take care of them. Calpurnia is a middle-aged black woman who doesn’t exactly qualify as a maid,
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People all have different taste in everything, so requiring students to read the same thing may lower their interest in reading all together. Reading is a very important aspect in learning about all kinds of things like life in general. Reading To Kill a Mockingbird can give all kinds of helpful insights to life in general, but if some kids are not interested in the reading, forcing them to read will make them want to read even less, and then they may not get the insights that way. People can get these “clues” about life in different ways; more interesting ways. This is a very true paradox that is seen in daily life. When we read books, we not only increase our reading levels, we increase all our knowledge in all parts of reading. Our grammar can increase greatly, our mechanical errors will decrease rapidly, all that kind of …show more content…
Perhaps take a vote-have the students vote on a few books, and whichever book gets the most votes, choose that one to have them read. Some students will not like the chosen book, but they may eventually learn to like it. So, I do not think students should be forced into reading To Kill a Mockingbird because it may seem boring to them. A lot of students will think all books are boring, but one will stick out to them at some point. It may not be teaching them in an interesting or fun enough way for them. Maybe you need to get the message to them in a more sudden or more fun way perhaps. Either way, our nation’s youth must learn in some way, and forcing them to learn in one certain way isn’t really a good
People all have different taste in everything, so requiring students to read the same thing may lower their interest in reading all together. Reading is a very important aspect in learning about all kinds of things like life in general. Reading To Kill a Mockingbird can give all kinds of helpful insights to life in general, but if some kids are not interested in the reading, forcing them to read will make them want to read even less, and then they may not get the insights that way. People can get these “clues” about life in different ways; more interesting ways. This is a very true paradox that is seen in daily life. When we read books, we not only increase our reading levels, we increase all our knowledge in all parts of reading. Our grammar can increase greatly, our mechanical errors will decrease rapidly, all that kind of …show more content…
Perhaps take a vote-have the students vote on a few books, and whichever book gets the most votes, choose that one to have them read. Some students will not like the chosen book, but they may eventually learn to like it. So, I do not think students should be forced into reading To Kill a Mockingbird because it may seem boring to them. A lot of students will think all books are boring, but one will stick out to them at some point. It may not be teaching them in an interesting or fun enough way for them. Maybe you need to get the message to them in a more sudden or more fun way perhaps. Either way, our nation’s youth must learn in some way, and forcing them to learn in one certain way isn’t really a good