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Journal Article
Arts in Action: Creating Opportunities for Equity and Change
2023
Overview
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, published sixty years ago, was voted \"best-loved novel\" in PBS's The Great American Read poll in 2018. Recently the book has undergone much-needed scrutiny about how it deals with issues of prejudice. In an NCTE blog post, Julia Franks writes, \"I've been trying to pull To Kill a Mockingbird from the curriculum for decades . . . because the messages about race and the status quo are so very outdated.\" So why choose to read it in a high school classroom? For the last fourteen years, they have taught To Kill a Mockingbird in a variety of ways: as a text students read to answer quiz questions; through the theme of coming of age; and by centering Lee's craft as she breathes life into the town of Maycomb. None of these approaches felt like they were doing the novel, or their students, justice because Lee doesn't breathe life into all her characters. It occurred to them that they were trying to teach the novel the way they wanted it to be, rather than calling attention to and discussing its shortcomings.
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