April 16

Today we watched a video of Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit. Then we looked at the picture of Reuben Stacey hanging, lynched, from a tree which was the subject of that song. We talked about how that is what the town would like to do to Tom Robinson in Mockingbird. Then we read through an interview with 3 ladies who grew up in rural Alabama about what it was like etc. Next we watched an interview with another old lady who grew up in rural Alabama. Finally we read through chapter 15 and part of 16. The test tomorrow is on chapters 8-16. I would STRONGLY recommend that you do the bonus from yesterday, if you haven't already to prepare for this test.