Full Description
The new Common Core State Standards mean major changes for language arts teachers, particularly the emphasis on "informational text." How do we shift attention toward informational texts without taking away from the teaching of literature?
The key is informational texts deeply connected to the literary texts you are teaching.
Preparing informational texts for classroom use, however, requires time and effort. Using Informational Text to Teach Literature is designed to help.
In this volume, we offer informational texts connected to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Readings range in genre (inaugural address, historical analysis, autobiography, etiquette book, newspaper editorial, and Supreme Court decision) and topic (the Depression, entails, etiquette, the right to a lawyer, stereotypes, lynching, miscegenation, and heroism).
Each informational text is part of a student-friendly unit, with reading strategies and activities.
Teachers need to incorporate nonfiction in ways that enhance their teaching of literature. The Using Informational Text to Teach Literature series is an invaluable supportive tool.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
Unit 1: What do Americans have to fear?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself"
Unit 2: Who's poor?
Jens Beckert: "Political Structure and Inheritance Law: The Abolition of Entails
Unit 3: Does a girl have to be a lady?
Lillian Eichler: Book of Etiquette
Unit 4: Does everyone deserve a good lawyer?"
Stephen Jones: "The Case for Unpopular Clients"
Unit 5: What is a lynch mob?
Clarence Norris and Sybil D. Washington: The Last of the Scottsboro Boys: An Autobiography
Haywood Patterson and Earl Conrad: Scottsboro Boy
Unit 6: What's up with Mr. Dolphus Raymond?
Chief Justice Earl Warren, Loving v. Virginia
Unit 7: Is Atticus a hero?
David Margolick, "To Attack A Lawyer In 'To Kill a Mockingbird': An Iconoclast Takes Aim At A Hero"
Rubrics
Two additional units are available on the series website: www.usinginformationaltext.com.
Chapter 8: What is the meaning of rabies in Mockingbird?
R. A. Craig: Common Diseases of Farm Animals
Chapter 9: What does Scout really know about Calpurnia?
Claudia Durst Johnson, "Interview: A Perspective on the 1930s"
About the Authors
Answers to all sections are available on the series website: www.usinginformationaltext.com.
