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Making Student-Led Discussion Visible

School: Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, Devens, MA

3. Students? Individual Written Responses

I agree with what Asha said. She thought the truth was Tom?s innocence in the trial. She thought the jury turned it around. This all makes sense to me.

Many people talked about how people are often stuck in their ways and are unwilling or even scared to change their ways. I can connect this to the cycle of racism ? people are unwilling to change their way of life. Even if they start to doubt what they?re doing, they won?t change? Atticus used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson. But in the secret court of men?s hearts Atticus had no case.

I learned from what Dylan said that maybe Boo Radley is a child at heart, and his father was protecting him from the outside.

I agree that the injustice tries to take control of the gold/truth/mockingbird. In denying them freedom, it slowly kills it. It is not the injustice itself that kills it, but the pain of the barrier between it and the world ? the jail, the panther?s cage, etc.

?She said you can?t judge people until you see them and know them for yourself? When you are presented with the truth, the plain facts about someone, you can see them without assuming things about them? This is the gold that Scout has that forces Mr. Cunningham to see himself in the mob.

I wonder what Bob Ewell was like as a kid.


Alison furthered my thinking on how Mr. Ewell could have changed the way he lived, but didn?t choose to.

I disagree that it isn?t bob Ewell?s fault for the bad things he?s doing. He is responsible for his actions. He is the one who drinks and beats Mayella.

I agree, Choice is hard to do. Mr. Ewell couldn?t pull himself away because he wasn?t strong enough. It?s like with women, they had the choice to keep being under men, they fought, they were strong.

If dying for something you believe in makes you fit to live, are terrorists fit to live?

I DISAGREE that Tom Robinson is sacrificing himself by running out of the jail. I think that the fact that he ran away doesn?t have anything to do with the quote by MLK. When MLK says that, he is referring to a cause, something he wants to make change in annd is passionate about? When Tom ran he ran from himself, because he wanted to escape himself?

I agree that Tom Robinson is like the panther. I disagree that Tom Robinson?s death didn?t make a difference. I think it did.


I agree with Dylan and Nick about how Tom is the match tht starts the candle, which is Atticus. Then I started thinking if they are that, then I think Scout and Jem reflect it.

I disagree with (I forget who said it) the reflection of the candle can be bad?

I disagree with Jad when he said that the candle and the mirror represent a crowd? Tom Robinson was more of a match to help light Atticus? flame against racism.

The town was not the mirror! When you reflect light, you make more of it, not put it out.

Norah and Jacob have made me think that there is not only the candle and the mirror, but the wick and the flame?

Something that really opened my eyes? Someone said that ?a dream deferred? was connected to ?I have a dream?? I never thought about them being the same dream.