Look at your classmates, and ask yourself if your culture is healthy or unhealthy. How can you tell if you're living in a toxic culture?

Write out a strategy to help improve and motivate the people in your community to embrace the positive principles of the group. How can you create a healthy environment where people respect the cultural norms and rules and don't feel like they'll be punished for messing up? How can you encourage them to find their purpose?

Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.