Writing Through To Kill a Mockingbird
- Age: 13+
- 1/4th Credit
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Writing Through To Kill a Mockingbird
- Age: 13+
- 1/4th Credit
Author and professor Jonathan Rogers of Grammar for Writers demonstrates how good reading can produce writing with powerful symbolism and memorable characters from Harper Lee’s enduring classic.
Part of the Creative Writing with Jonathan Rogers series. This product is only available in a streaming digital format.
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Description
Writing through To Kill a Mockingbird provides a seminar in creative writing through a set of self-paced video lectures. Jonathan Rogers explores this masterpiece of American fiction to teach writers how to use point of view, pacing, and mannerisms to write what you know.
Dr. Rogers has written The Wilderking Trilogy, The World According to Narnia, and other books.
Writing Through To Kill a Mockingbird is part of the new series Creative Writing with Jonathan Rogers. Purchase the whole series or explore one of the other lecture sets for your homeschool:
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Additional information
| Age | 13+ |
|---|---|
| Age/Grade | |
| Lessons | 17 |
| Lesson Length | about 24 minutes |
| Teacher | Jonathan Rogers |
| Format | Streaming – 12 Months of Access |
| Runtime | 6 hrs and 57 minutes |
| Addl Mtls | Supplemental Writing Exercises |
Lessons
- First-Person Narration (28:48)
- In-Scene, Out-of-Scene (19:02)
- Mannerisms and Manners (26:22)
- Pacing (29:21)
- Convincing Description (18:40)
- Symbolism (23:20)
- Tim Johnson, Part 1 (31:28)
- Tim Johnson, Part 2 (21:14)
- Engaging the Reader’s Judgment (21:44)
- Revealing Gestures (25:31)
- The Ewells (31:11)
- Dialogue as Action (25:40)
- Showing and Telling in the Courtroom (22:13)
- Manners (Again) (24:27)
- Big Ideas (16:49)
- Seeing from the Character’s Perspective (27:04)
- Reality as a Source of Fiction (24:44)
Sample Lessons
Experience sample lessons inside our learning platform:
- Engaging video lectures
- Reading assignments
- Writing prompts
In the meantime, here is just one of the videos available at the link above.
Sample Exercises
Writing Exercise #1
This is a two-part exercise about first-person point of view:
- Pick a familiar fairytale or folktale and retell it in first person from the point of view one of the characters.
- Then tell the same story again, in first person from the point of view of another character.
Writing Exercise #2
Skim two chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird and note every place where Harper Lee shifts from writing in-scene to writing out-of-scene, or vice versa.
Now go back to the out-of-scene sections. What does Harper Lee accomplish by pulling out of scene? Some of the possibilities from the video lesson include:
- Providing exposition or background information
- Conveying necessary information
- Moving the story along or skipping ahead
- Establishing tone and voice
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