informational text, and that provides an opportunity for children to read non-viction, and with a text -- mon fiction, and with a text like "to kill a mockingbird," it's valuable. the lynching in the text - it's invisible for many. it's the scene where attacus is sitting outside the gaol house guarding tom robinon, and scout and her brother come along and see the men who gathered outside. because it's scout's perspective, scout doesn't know what is going on. using the international text of to kill a mokking bird. we suggest teachers use ex-earnts from memoires about their own experiences with near lynching, to draw out for students that this is not an innocuous screen. this is a scary moment that scout can barely glimpse the real ramifications of of. >> you are teaching tomorrow's teachers. do you imagine the book hits in a different way, if you teach in tuscalusa or huntville versus newark or hoboken. >> absolutely. one of the things for students of colour is that tom robinson, i think, represents one of the typical figures in american media today. he's noble but pretty powerless kind but a victim.