Creative Writing for To Kill A Mockingbird:
Using the account of the trial in chapters 16-21, make one or more new texts by adapting the original. Please post this on your ePortfolio and you may want to submit it to the website fanfiction. Here are some suggestions:
- Write an account of the events of a chosen day, or a summary of the trial after the verdict for a local or regional newspaper, such as the Maycomb Tribune, the Montgomery Advertiser or the Mobile Register. (All these newspapers are named in the text. While Maycomb is a small [fictitious] town, Montgomery is the state capital of Alabama and Mobile is another large city in the same state.)
- Script and present a short item on any part of the trial for a news broadcast on an Alabama radio station.
- Write a scene for a play (stage or TV) or cinema screenplay of some part of the trial. You may wish to edit the original text to make your version shorter.
- Prepare a list of bullet points for Atticus to use in presenting his appeal against Tom’s conviction.
- Write one or more monologues, showing how various people experienced or witnessed the trial. These could be participants or observers. You may wish to choose some of the following: Judge Taylor, Mayella Ewell, Calpurnia, Helen Robinson, Mr. Gilmer, Heck Tate, Dill. Decide how open and truthful you want to be.
Reading Schedule for this week:
Monday/Tuesday March 8 & 9: for HW read chapters 22-24
Wednesday/Thursday March 10 & 11: for HW read chapters 25-28
Monday/Tuesday March 15 & 16: complete the novel ch. 29-31
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