Confession:
I don't love To Kill a Mockingbird.
I know. Gasps of shock, surprise and disbelief that a teacher doesn't like TKAM. I get that it's a great book with an important story, it's just that when people list it in their top five favorite books my reaction is always more of, "Really? Mockingbird?"
This is the reason I'm choosing Mockingbird as the first book to read and write curriculum for on this site. I know it's a common book to read in high school, and I never had a student who was gleeful to be doing the TKAM unit in 9th grade.
My goal is to read the book and try to find the fun in it for myself, and hopefully that will convey to your students.
Day One starts tomorrow!
