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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 2 Summary
The students in Ms.Franz's 7B class who are reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee had their second session today, and the topic of discussion was chapter 2. Everybody completed their tasks accurately, so minimal feedback was addressed. We could all agree that the second chapter was not as diverse as the first ; we could see the story begin to shape. For instance, this chapter was more about Jean Louise's first day of first grade. Angelina (our Discussion Director), posed an exceptionally "deep" question which we all enjoyed responding to. She asked us to compare and contrast the ways of education in the 1930s to education nowadays. I thought that this question really made us consider all the factors, negative and positive to help us

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