This year Jharokha’s theme was Inclusion and
Division. Different subjects put up their stalls and talked about how the theme
connected to the subject. Grade 8’s English unit focused on
Discrimination. In this unit, we looked at the text “To Kill a Mockingbird” and
looked at discrimination from the perspective of two young characters, Jem and
Scout. Scout was encouraged to dress like a ‘lady’, a label which asked her to
wear dresses instead of pants and to keep her hair longer. Atticus Finch, their
father who was a lawyer supporting Tom Robinson a black man, who was
falsely accused of the rape of a white girl . It also talked about Boo Radley,
a character who was rumoured to have stabbed his father with a pair of
scissors. Jem and Finch were trying to understand the way society works.
To explore the setting of the book deeper, we
looked at Slavery in the US. We created a timeline of the history of slavery
and presented it in Jharokha. We talked about Discrimination in the US
and connected it to the text we were studying. We looked at prominent people of
the time such as Harriet Tubman, who was one of the escaped fugitives but made
her life’s goal to help the slaves by escaping the hard and perilous
conditions. We also looked at growing abolitionist movement at the time
such as the case of Dred Scott vs Sanford Dred.
This Jharokha was a great learning experience;
it helped us in identifying different issues throughout the globe.
By: Anarghya Saxena, 8B
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