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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by American author Harper Lee. It became instantly successful after its release; in the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize a year after its release, and it has become a classic of modern American literature.
To Kill a Mockingbird's ranking by an organization of British librarians on a list of books that everyone should read before they die 2: The ranking of The Bible on that same list
The English Department is particularly strong at MCS. Students read a wide variety of novels, and with 7th and 8th graders, a Shakespeare play is incorporated in the year's curriculum annually. Novels and plays that students have read as part of the curriculum include The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Romeo and Juliet .
A Time to Kill: John Grisham: References to slavery, rape, and the text includes racial slurs 1989 — 67 — To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee: Offensive language, racism, unsuited to age group 1960 15 21 40 Tricks: Ellen Hopkins: 2009 98 — — Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller: Sexual content 1934 — — — Twilight (series) Stephenie Meyer
Classic American novel Of Mice And Men has been removed from the Welsh GCSE curriculum amid concerns about racism. The new English Language and Literature syllabus issued by the country’s ...
In August 2009, the school principal Kevin McGuire removed the book To Kill a Mockingbird from the grade 10 curriculum due to a complaint received from a parent who expressed concern about the language in the book. It was returned to the grade 10 curriculum in 2011. [2] St. Edmund Campion offers an Advanced Placement (AP) Program.
Richard Thomas will star as Atticus Finch in the Indianapolis run of "To Kill a Mockingbird" — a play adaptation by Aaron Sorkin.
[44] Kyle Smith of National Review accused the media of a double standard when labeling the removal of Maus from the McMinn County, Tennessee school curriculum by the school board as a "ban", while not using the same label for when To Kill a Mockingbird was removed from required curriculum by a school board in Washington State. [45]