Connecting Poetry to To Kill a Mockingbird

1. Connecting Poetry to To Kill a Mockingbird Alice Willis, MLIS, M. Ed. SC Geographic Alliance Teacher Consultant Lewisville High School Richburg, SC

2. Implementation – Day 1 • After reading To Kill a Mockingbird students will discuss five themes from the book as identified by Mrs. Barnes and Ms. Willis. • Students will locate on Literature Resources from Gale one of the poems drawn at random.

3. Implementation – Day 2 • Students will be given a review of locating primary documents from the LOC. Today, students will be locating an image matching from the Jim Crowe era or Civil Rights Movement of the 1960 that correspond to the poem and To Kill a Mockingbird. • (Part 1)

4. Day 2 • Students will take a copy of the original poem and the image that was located and and create a found poem. • Students will be asked to jot notes of their thinking process on yellow memo notes and attach to the back of their found poem.

5. Day 3 • Students will discuss their found poems in peer groups and then with the whole group.

6. Sample Poem • “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson. Armed troops escort African American students from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas] Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c26447 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c26447 Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-126447 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., 20540 USA