On Friday we had a half day so we didn't have class.
Today in class we were assigned a letter and were told to sit with people with different letters in groups. Then we got a timeline describing the events of the Scottsboro case. We had to read it and then had to make up three journal entries about it. Our group had to write them in the voice of Ruby Bates who was one of the women who accused the teenager boys of raping her on the train. It was very interesting because it turned out that she had lied about it. She disappeared and then came back two years later as a surprise defendant and confessed that it was a lie. Learning about the trials was pretty cool because they were the very things that inspired Harper Lee to write To Kill A Mockingbird. Today was a good class because we all pretended to be different vital people of the trials.
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