Monday, June 9, 2008

Holiday Assignment : To Kill A Mockingbird

It will be counted as part of your CA2 for term 3


Questioner - To come up with intesresting discussion questions for the chapters in the book, especially questions like "What does this tell us about......" or "Why do you think ...... "

Vocab Wizard - Pick out IMPORTANT or DIFFICULT WORDS in the chapter and explain what it means to the group. This should not be just copied from the DICTIONERY but must be explained in relation to the TEXT . You can be creative in your explaination and use photos or drawing or clip art to explain the meaning clearly .

Plot Mapper - Mindmap or storyboard important parts of the story by using the elements of a narrative like : trigger event, sequence of IMPORTANT EVENTS/ACTIONS ( must be linked in terms of cause and effect throughout the chapters), Problem/conflict .

Quote Picker - Pick out important quote from chapters and start a discussion about the meaning and significance of the quote to the story like development of plot, character, or theme.

Character Picker - Identify important character in each chapter and track the development of the character though the chapter through what character says or does and what other character says about this him/her. You must explain what it tell you about the character like the personality . The most important character to foucus on will be : scout, Atticus, Jem, Bill, Calpurnia, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell and Boo Radley .

Discussion Leader - To check and read through other members work and come up with interesting ideas to discuss based on what other members post or based on your own reading. Focus on themems in the story: COOURAGE, INTEGRITY, PREJUDICE, RACISM etc.

The work above must be done based on Chapter 1-10 .

posted by : Wanyin (17)

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