Essay Topics/Writing Process
English 8
Burdett
1) Choose 3 events from the Boo Radley plot in Part I and show how they are paralleled to events in the Tom Robinson plot in Part II.
2) What values does Atticus want to teach his children? Support your answers with specific events from the novel.
3) What major lessons does Scout learn over the course of the novel, and how does she learn them? Choose 3 and discuss them.
4) Choose one of the following characters and discuss his or her purpose in the novel: Aunt Alexandria, Dill, Miss Maudie.
5) Choose either the theme of “courage” or “education”(both formal and informal) and explain how this theme develops and changes over the course of the novel.
You
will be responsible for:
1)
outline
2)
rough
draft – hand-edited
3)
final
draft – paper copy