Authors Have the Power

Objective:

Students will discuss how social issues impact the way individuals live and the power that authors have when they write about those issues.

Activities:

1. Go to library to check out To Kill a Mockingbird.

2. View 15-20 minutes of Baz Luhrmann's 1997 movie Romeo and Juliet.

3. Write about how one social issue has affected you and whether or not you've ever seen it depicted in literature.

Note: 

Please begin reading To Kill a Mockingbird. There is no harm in reading something twice; often the reader discovers something missed in the first reading. While you read think about the social constructs in the novel.