Possible Topic Ideas

By Anonymous
I was thinking about writing about the portrayal of minorities in novels. I thought it would be interesting to write about The Hate U Give and possibly To Kill a Mockingbird or something like that. I'm not positive yet but I think this is a super important topic.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2019 at 6:37 AM

    I really enjoyed reading To Kill a Mockingbird and I think that would be a really important book to use in the topic that you have chosen!!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2019 at 6:44 AM

    I think this is a super interesting topic and those are definitely good books to use in looking at minorities. I remember really liking To Kill A Mockingbird!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2019 at 4:26 PM

    Definitely an important topic. Like said above, the books go very well with your topic.

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  4. Ms. SchieffelinJanuary 24, 2019 at 7:07 AM

    I love your idea to focus on a contemporary novel, and "To Kill a Mockingbird" would give you secondary criticism, but the story gives us so much of the white perspective rather than the perspective of the characters of color. You might want to look into "Between the World and Me," a nonfiction book by Ta-Nehisi Coates which is written as a letter to his son. It came out in 2015. Here's an abbreviated version of the book: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/.
    Here's a cool website that provides resources for teaching the novel, but you could maybe dig into something they mention to make connections: http://www.readwritethink.org/resources/resource-print.html?id=31231

    I'm excited to work on this with you!

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