Sentences with phrase «teaching mockingbird»

Download a free copy of Facing History's Teaching Mockingbird guide and sign up for professional development to help you transform how you teach To Kill a Mockingbird.

One year ago, Facing History launched its Teaching Mockingbird curriculum to help educators connect the book's important themes of justice and morality to contemporary issues.

This literary event — taking place 55 years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird and about six months after Facing History published Teaching Mockingbird, its study guide to the novel — comes at a time when we have been diving deep into the themes of Lee's classic novel, both as a staff and with educators around the world.

For nearly two years, I've been thinking about the world of Maycomb as I worked with colleagues to create Facing History and Ourselves» resource Teaching Mockingbird.

Facing History's Teaching Mockingbird guide offers a fresh approach to the classic that engages students in the issues central to the novel — and their own lives — including race, class, gender, justice, and moral growth.

Facing History has developed a Teaching Mockingbird study guide and professional development courses that offer educators the resources they need to teach the novel through a contemporary lens and help students make connections between history and the world today.

The theme of the evening, «Everyone has a Story» speaks to both the program and to the launch of Facing History's new resource, Teaching Mockingbird.

As part of the award, Scott's teacher, Amy Rockenbach, will receive a $ 250 Classroom Award and free access to Facing History's Teaching Mockingbird online course.

Teaching Mockingbird uses Facing History's guiding lens to examine To Kill a Mockingbird, offering material that will enhance student's literary skills, moral growth, and social development.

We also recommend reviewing Fostering a Reflective Classroom from Teaching Mockingbird for suggestions for creating classroom contracts that include guidelines for respectful, reflective classroom discussions.

Facing History's guide Teaching Mockingbird offers a fresh approach to using the book in the classroom.

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To Kill a Mockingbird A father's (Gregory Peck) example is all that he has to teach his children (Phillip Alford and Mary Badham) the importance of treating all men equally.

Use this resource to transform how you teach Harper Lee's classic novel by integrating historical context, documents, and sources that reflect the African American voices absent from Mockingbird's narration.

Franklin says if students are reading «To Kill A Mockingbird» in their English class, he can use historical documents to teach common themes of the civil rights struggle.

Many books taught in Facing History and Ourselves classrooms have been challenged at one time, including The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Maus II by Art Spiegelman, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (register on our website to receive updates on our new guide to the classic novel slated to come out later this fall).

Michael Gove has made a «real mistake» in asking GCSE exam boards to remove US literary classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men from the English Literature syllabus, the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) has said.

The videos selected below provide historical background and thematic insights that will be useful for teaching To Kill a Mockingbird.

Do you teach Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird?

On my desk is a copy of the Los Angeles Unified School District's guide to teaching To Kill a Mockingbird.

Last night my roommates and I got onto a discussion about English and teaching (they try to indulge me a bit) and we realized we had all read To Kill a Mockingbird.

Do you teach To Kill a Mockingbird?

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A longstanding mindset of English Language Arts teachers is to describe their current unit or chunk of curriculum as «Teaching (fill in any title)», as in, «I am teaching To Kill a Mockingbird this monthTeaching (fill in any title)», as in, «I am teaching To Kill a Mockingbird this monthteaching To Kill a Mockingbird this month.»

Chin and Annette De La Llana, an instructional coach, began by watching Scherer teach the classic Harper Lee novel «To Kill a Mockingbird» on video.

In response to the passing of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, on February 19, Facing History and Ourselves» President and CEO Roger Brooks wrote an opinion editorial «Teaching to Kill a Mockingbird» that was published in The Boston Globe.