Made For Us
A newly married 20-something High School English teacher from New Jersey (currently lost in the Midwest) who likes to read, cook, listen to jazz, write, design, & dream of world travel with my graphic designing husband.
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Look at all these comments Boo Radley received in 4 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
I know it’s cheesy, but I love that people love him that much!
*The excessive use of exclamatory marks was necessary.
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I have
notseen this episode, but I need to… (again)So Badly.
Someone buy me the first two seasons of
Bored to Death,
Please :)
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This made me chuckle.
I LOVE that someone’s students thought enough of Boo to make him a silly profile.
Some English teachers would be bothered about this and believe me, I probably love Boo Radley and To Kill a Mockingbird more than most, but this just tickles me that some 8th or 9th grade made this and got all of his friends and others to like it.
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“To Kill a Mockingbird” - Movie Theme
by Elmer Bernstein
We are closing Part 1 of the novel this week in my PreAP classes and will soon move on to the trial. Before I know it, it will all be over… In the last two years, this book has stolen my heart in so many ways and certainly solidified its place as my favorite book to teach, with Lord of the Flies making a close second.
I really love this theme. I played a portion of it for one of my on level classes today while they were finishing up their journals. Of my two on level classes, they get the most into the story and actually laugh out loud when things happen to Scout. They think that it’s so cool that we’ll watch the film after we’re finished reading. Little do they know how much I hope and pray that they’ll all fall in love with Gregory Peck and black and white movies.
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I teach Freshman English.
We are in Part 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird right now.
Directly after, my PreAP classes will begin a month long poetry unit where they will dissect pieces and use music to understand tone.
In January and a bit of February, we will cover Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet.
We will then have a short story unit.
I have, in the past, taught The Importance of Being Earnest at that time.
I do want another play to teach them. I am vacillating between The Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie.
Thoughts on which Freshman might enjoy more?
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We’re starting Chapter 4 tomorrow in my Pre-AP classes & Chapter 3 in my On Level.
I really LOVE this novel and I am soooo glad that my Freshman this year are really getting into it, so much more than last year’s bunch. It makes it even more pleasurable for me to teach it over the next month.
For my PreAP class, summer is almost upon them again in Maycomb County, and we all know that summer is Dill.
Some of my students last year became really obsessed with the “relationship” between Scout and Dill and drew pictures of them and things like “Scout -N- Dill 4EVER”… I know Harper Lee said her story was a LOVE story, but I think it’s so much more a love story between Scout and Boo. Those words toward the end, “Hey Boo,” will live on in my memory far after my life has moved beyond teaching Freshman English.
