tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950710616481951104.post1818252957015567122..comments2013-09-14T15:35:38.789-05:00Comments on Subject to Change: To Read or to Love, that is the questionKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17061926361615154525noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1950710616481951104.post-59642530592333838282010-03-08T09:30:13.910-06:002010-03-08T09:30:13.910-06:00Oh, To Kill a Mockingbird! One of my favorite book...Oh, To Kill a Mockingbird! One of my favorite books ever! It was required summer reading ... I can't remember for which grade. And for several years that followed, I think I read it EVERY summer until it became Gone with the Wind that I had to read annually over summer break.<br /><br />It's been years since I read TKM, but I never saw a simplified version. The earliest times I read it, I think I was fairly young and some of it was probably above my head. Especially the court scenes. But I still got a lot out of it. I wasn't reading it for insight into the legal system, discrimination, injustice, etc... I was a Southern tomboy who could relate in a lot of ways to Scout, and I was just itching to find out the mysteries behind who Boo Radley was and where the gifts in the tree were coming from. Later, as I became more mature and the reading became easier for me, I began to take away more meaning from the book.<br /><br />I should probably admit at this point that I was really young when I read Animal Farm too, and it took me a decade to realize the book had political overtones! I would just take what I could from a book, and leave anything that was above my head behind!<br /><br />Anyway, if the language in the simplified version of TKM is at the appropriate level for your class, I'd say go for it. Who knows - maybe it will inspire them to graduate on to the original version if they ever do a re-read?!?Krishttp://blog.thedetectivemom.comnoreply@blogger.com