设计作者:Elva_yin
During the unit ‘Stranger than Fiction’ I read the book ‘Just Mercy’ written by Bryan Stevenson. This is a book that strongly emphasizes the idea of fighting for justice. In the book, Bryan Stevenson presented himself as an internship lawyer, specifically as one of those lawyers who helped people who were wrongfully put on death row. In this book, the author created many small stories, with one big plot of Walter McMillan which is a true story that happened in real life. This implies that this is an issue that is seen as very common in real life showing how people struggle just only for justice, suggesting the importance of taking it seriously.
On the second and third pages are the central idea and theme presented in this book. There are two t-charts on this page showing the two central ideas found in this book with evidence on the left column and thoughts on the right side. This is one of them, “The criminal justice system was broken during the 1980s.”, this central idea leads to the theme statement, which is also related to the “should” statement I created, “people should not get judged quickly by their race, gender, or looks.” The central idea and theme statement didn’t change much from the beginning and end, but the author did reveal it slowly, story by story.
The fourth and fifth pages are ‘big ideas’ and ‘texts are complex’, these two pages explain what the author wants us to understand the multiple meanings of a section. For example, in the chapter named, ‘Mockingbird Player’, the author’s purpose is to show the similarity between characters in the book Mockingbird, and Walter Mcmillan, implying that racism is commonly seen in real life. For the ‘big ideas’, was the first page of the unit. I listed out things that might be a social issue with many pieces of evidence supporting it, and after finishing the book, those social issues suspected are true.
On the last three pages, I collected evidence throughout the book and synthesized it. On page seven, I showed the author’s perspective and what the author wants us to get out of this book, which is what I developed at the bottom of the page. On page eight, I used a cause and effect mind map to show my thinking of how I developed the social issue, starting with ‘injustice’ and connecting it with other big ideas with examples in the story. On page nine are some additional notes I took while reading the book.
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