Mr.

Jackson To Kill a Mockingbird Midway Assignment Name:

One of the main concepts we have been focusing on in To Kill a Mockingbird through the halfway point (i.e. through part one, the end of chapter eleven) is courage. We have seen Atticus shoot the mad dog in the street when nobody else would. We have seen Scout and Jem try to keep their heads as everyone in Maycomb is losing theirs over the upcoming court case. Additionally we have just finished reading about how Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, although she seems to have little positive qualities, has overcome an addiction to Morphine just before she dies. These are all tremendous acts of courage.

For this short assignment you will draw or create a picture (a drawing, a sketch, a painting, a photo of your own creation, maybe even a tattoo you would give) of what courage looks like based on what we have learned about courage from To Kill a Mockingbird. In creating this picture you will not use scenes from the novel, but ones that you create or ones that you have seen from outside culture, e.g. (Mother Teresa, Gandhi, MLK, Someone sacrificing their life for others, firefighters, a loving mother) The examples for what courage could look like are endless. The key here is you must create the image you will turn into me. You cannot just take search courage on a Google search and print off one of these pictures. Once you have created this picture you will give a two paragraph (at least 5 sentences each) explanation for why this picture represents courage as we have learned about it in TKAM. The first paragraph will explain how the picture represents courage, then the second will explain how the picture relates to To Kill a Mockingbird.

As we have seen, Atticus Finch has this to say about courage

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. Its when you know youre licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew (128).