Tuesday, November 1

Today we continued to try to build up your background knowledge about the time and place of To Kill a Mockingbird by studying one important moment from the Civil Rights Movement, the murder of Emmett Till. Though the murder of Till occurred 20 years after the events of Mockingbird, we viewed it because the documentary exposed the same kinds of attitudes and structures that are held by many of the characters in the book we're reading. If you missed it, go to youtube, and watch Eyes on the Prize Episode 1, from the 5:30 minute mark up through 25:50. Also, read everything up through page 140 in To Kill a Mockingbird.