A Little Behind the Times

So I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird. I never really thought it was a book I needed to read and none of my teachers had it as required reading. Well in pursuit of trying to be as organized as possible for my first year (for me this means know what I am going to do a week in advance!) I am trying to get my lessons semi-laid out for at least the first month of school. Right now I am working on my Honors 10 class because I am the most excited about their unit right now. The theme of the unit is "Heroes." I think so many times in our society that kids are let down by their heroes, ex. Mark McGuire and Tiger Woods. I know that it is not "fair" to put all the pressure on these guys to act perfect but come on act responsible and don't break the laws. ANYWAYS.... I have some great ideas I am pretty pumped about including the kids designing a page for their hero at the Hero Project website. So on to the point..I have been looking for a novel to go along with my hero unit and was looking down the list of book sets that our school has (which is rather limited and maybe a little outdated) I went to the library and checked out some of the books on the list and did some investigating on some of my teacher websites and found To Kill a Mockingbird was one that may fit well so I started reading.
I just finished up a little bit ago and I must say I enjoyed it. I did find my mind wondering and then would have to go back and re-read some parts. I'm not sure if it was because I was in a gym of volleyball players or what but I had a hard time concentrating today. Other times I contribute it to the fact that I was trying to think of how to incorporate the book into the unit and also what I needed to take out of the book to highlight to the students. Overall I think it will fit well and with Honors kids I am interested to see what their take on it is! Well that is all for now hopefully there will be an update on this in a couple months!