This week the 8th graders were focused on a quote from To Kill a Mockingbird.
“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.”
Students discussed the quote and the following day when they walked into class, each student had a shoe placed on top of the desk. For 35 minutes, students journaled about the owner of the shoe. They answered questions to help them create the owner of the shoe. The next day, students reviewed the elements of a narrative in preparation for writing their first big essay of the year. The owner of the shoe they wrote about became the main character of their narrative. Today and next week, students are writing their rough drafts so that they are prepared to revise/edit by the end of next week.
