Nobelers dive into To Kill A Mocking Bird

I had the pleasure of observing Natalie Pederson's Honors English class which houses our Nobel cohort. They had a Socratic Seminar today on To Kill A Mocking Bird and I loved hearing them explore the questions they had come up with. I particularly enjoyed listening to them discuss how the book would have changed if Scout would have been a boy, whether the trial would have been different if it had happened in 2019 instead, and why do they think Harper Lee chose Scout as the narrator.

Today's discussion builds on the creative thinking the did earlier in the unit where they took the clues Harper Lee leaves the reader about Maycomb and they designed their own maps interpreting what Scout's hometown looked like.

I look forward to observing these creative thinkers again!

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