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“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” jean louise finch.

A blackout poetry I did with  TKAM

I didn’t know much about what to actually do when I started teaching high school English, but my classroom came with a set of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, and I knew that, somewhere along the line, it had become accepted that every 9th grader in America must be assigned that book.  So I figured I’d start there.  And in that way, Harper Lee helped me figure out my first real job.

Everyone that I know that has read To Kill A Mockingbird said it was a really boring book. It is probably the only book that I actually enjoy reading.

"Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the government is fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use that phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. We know that all men are not created equal in the sense that some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they are born with it, some men have more money than others, and some people are more gifted than others. But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal. An institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the ignorant man the equal of any president, and the stupid man the equal of Einstein. That institution is the court. But a court is only as sound as its jury, and the jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore the defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, gentlemen, believe Tom Robinson."

TKMB key quotes with page references. It's really important to know the book really well so you don't spend ages looking for quotes. Also, I love TKMB.