To walk a mile in somebody elses' shoes doesn't mean to throw on their Air Jordan's and walk.  It means that you should try to see their view from their side of the path.  As you walk along the path, you wear two back packs, one is on your front, the other on your back.  As you go along the path you find other people's faults and put them into the pack on your front so you can always see them; you put your own faults into the pack on your back.  This is not the correct pack arrangement, those packs need to be flipped around so you can see your own faults.  This idea is illustrated in To Kill a Mockingbird.  The way the people and characters talk and converse describes a world in which turmoil is common with people of a different ideology.

Marcus Flaherty and Lucas Moeller

Be prepared to formulate a well organized essay that proves true one of the following four themes from To Kill a Mockingbird :

1. Stand up for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

2. Withhold judgment on a person's character until you have walked a mile in that person's shoes.

3. Learning is reciprocal for adults and children.

4. Be who you truly are; never allow someone else dictate who you are or will be.

Each section, 1st hour, 2nd hour, and 4th hour will be assigned a different theme to complete the essay.

Specific details from the novel are necessary to support your ideas.  You must include four passages from the novel with complete and accurate parenthetical application.

The essay will be written within the time limits of class.  You are encouraged to prepare your ideas using pre-writing before you come to class in the form of an outline or a web.  Nothing written in prose form (essay form) will be allowed.  You may use your book and your pre-writing when you write the essay in class.