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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PreAP classes met Boo Radley today as we read chapters 29-30.
We read the final chapter together tomorrow.
“Hey, Boo”
Some of the best lines of the novel.
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Freak Out!
Fall Break is over tomorrow and a little piece of me is dying inside :/
However, we are in the heat of the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird in PreAP and on our way to our big essay on either A.) Atticus or B.) Boo. Harper Lee, you’ve been a gem for the second year in a row and I thank you.
Super Amazing Upside?:
4 1/2 weeks until Thanksgiving Break :)
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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
A very well done documentary on the Scottsboro Trials. I showed the first twenty minutes to my PreAP classes today since we are starting Part 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird on Monday. I’d show them all 90 minutes of it, but I can’t use the class time for that…
It’s very moving throughout the entire story and the last scene will get you… (if you weren’t already deeply impacted).
Produced by PBS.
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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.
