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Prejudice was a important or one of the most important topics in To Kill A Mockingbird. Produce affects how someone is treated and sometimes are treated horribly by something they can't control. The article tells a recurring occurrence of people of black race being treated unfairly in luxury stores. This relates back to To Kill A Mockingbird about how something that someone can't control, like skin color, affects how much respect that they deserve.

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Newsela | Black teenager says he was arrested just for buying an expensive belt

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It's called shopping while black. And many African-Americans say they are either ignored in expensive stories, or asked question after question by suspicious sales staff.

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prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbirdis not just toward people of color but also to women. For example, Scout is constantly taught and told in To Kill A Mockingbird about how to properly act like a women. The article informs the reader upon the unfairness toward the women on the Argentian soccerteam and how they receive no respect from the media compared to the male players. This relates back to To Kill A Mockingbird about how Scout is constantly talked down upon and told how to act like a proper.

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Newsela | For Argentina women's soccer team, the most elusive goal is respect

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The Argentine women's soccer team finished third at the Copa America and will play for the Women's World Cup in France. They are fighting for better pay and treatment in their country.

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Maturation in To Kill A Mockingbird is present in kids and involves lessons that they learn on their own. As kids mature in To Kill A Mockingbird, they change their attitude on certain topics. The article talks about how Harry Potter has affected kids in a way that it changes their perspective on important topics like immigrants. AS the kids mature and understand more from Harry Potter, kids in To kill A Mockingbird, like Scout, learns from their elders.

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Newsela | It's not magic: Reading Harry Potter books can boost children's tolerance

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Maturation is part of all of the kid's life in To Kill A Mockingbird. Maturation is a big part of children's lives in To Kill A Mockingbird because at some point they all mature to Men or Women. For example, Jem in To Kill A Mockingbird grows up and learns life lessons that Scout doesn't understand yet.

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Prejudice is not hiding in To Kill A Mockingbird. In the story, prejudice is a big part of the characters lives. Scout and her family have experienced and seen the division of the races. This article describes the life of women wearing hijabs and how they have experienced some negative moments because of it.

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Newsela | Prejudice and progress: Women with hijabs talk what it's like to wear them

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Women who wear the hijab share their different reasons for wearing the headscarf.

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Perspective taking is one of the important lessons in To Kill A Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird main characters all experience some sort of perspective taking in order to understand someone situation. Sanding in someone shoes, as shown in the image below, is a idiom for understanding how someone feels and why they are acting a certain way. This related to TO Kill A Mockingbird and how Scout sands in color people's shoes, especially African Americans.

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Perspective taking can be noticed in To Kill A Mockingbird. It affects the story by having characters take into account the lives of the people around them, causing them to be more empathetic to those people. This article talks about how a comic writer imagines himself in the shoes of Frederick Douglass, enabling him to write the story more emotionally.

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Newsela | Comic writer Walker tries his hand at history in book on Douglass

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To Kill a Mockingbird has shown empathy though children. Children in this novel are a big part of who the book is and what it represents. In the website it talks about children and how empathy could either help them in school or in the real world like in a career. For example in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout wanted to be like her father and not be prejudice against a certain race.

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Unlike intelligence and physical attractiveness, which depend largely on genetics, empathy is a skill that children learn. Its value is multifold. Children who are empathic tend to do better in school, in social situations, and in their adult careers. Children and teenagers who have the greatest amount of skill at empathy are viewed as leaders by their peers. The best teachers of that skill are the children's parents.

The precursors of empathy can be seen in children within the first day or two of life. A crying newborn child in a hospital nursery will often trigger crying among other infants in the room. Such crying is not a true display of empathy. The newborn infant appears to be simply responding to a sound that makes her uncomfortable, much as she would to any loud noise.

Toddlers sometimes show behavior that is closer to true empathy in their first efforts to connect another person's discomfort with their own. When a 2-year-old sees his mother crying, he may offer her a toy he's been playing with or a cookie he's been nibbling. He is giving his mother something that he knows has made him feel better when he has cried. It is unclear, however, whether the child understands what his mother is feeling, or is simply upset by the way she is acting, much in the way a puppy will come up and lick the face of someone who's crying.

By the time a child is about 4 years old, he begins to associate his emotions with the feelings of others. While one child says he has a stomachache, some 4-year-olds may come over and comfort him. Others, much to the bewilderment and horror of parents and teachers, will walk over the to child and punch him in the stomach.

Yet in each case the healthy child is demonstrating his empathy for the one who is ill. The aggressive child does not know what to do with the skill he's been developing. The other child's pain makes him feel uncomfortable. Instead of running away or rubbing his own stomach, as he might have done a year earlier, he feels frustrated and lashes out.

Teaching Empathy

Although the best training for empathy begins in infancy, it's never too late to start. Infants and toddlers learn the most by how their parents treat them when they are cranky, frightened, or upset. By the time a child is in preschool, you can begin talking about how other people feel.

The way you show your own empathy, however, may be more important than anything you say. If your 3-year-old cries out, "Look at the fat lady!" and you publicly bawl out your child and say that he shouldn't embarrass other people, you're working against yourself. Instead, quietly and gently explain why saying that may make the woman feel bad. Ask him if he's ever felt bad because of something a person said. Even so, some 3-year-olds may be too young to comprehend what you are saying.

When a child is about 5, he can learn about empathy by talking about hypothetical problems. How would you feel if someone took a toy away from you? How would your friend feel if someone took a toy away from him? By the time a child is 8, he can grapple with more complex moral decisions in which he must realize that someone else's feelings may be different from his own.

How Children Develop Empathy

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Unlike intelligence and physical attractiveness, which depend largely on genetics, empathy is a skill that children learn. Its value is multifold. Children who are empathic tend to do better in school, in social situations, and in their adult careers. Children and teenagers who have the greatest amount of skill at empathy are viewed as leaders by their peers.

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Empathy in To Kill a Mockingbird is present from the beginning of the novel to the end of the novel. In this picture, it shows that empathy is about feeling connections between people. Empathy connects back To Kill A mockingbird in different ways. For example when Calpurnia is trying to teach scout how to feel what other people are feeling.

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, empathy is shown in many different ways. Empathy to begin within the video means to understand another person's perspective without judging them. In the book To kill a Mockingbird people are judged by their skin color and the way they are treated is not being taken under consideration on how they feel.

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Moral Education can be seen in To Kill A Mockingbird. It affects the story by having characters, more specifically children, be taught manners and how to treat others. This article talks about the reform movements in the 1800s. When the education was reformed the children would receive the fundamentals of learning and a shared moral vision of citizenship.

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Newsela | Numerous reform movements changed the U.S. during the 1800s

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Before the Civil War, the key issue facing Americans was slavery. Afterward, improving labor conditions, securing women's suffrage and making alcohol consumption illegal were widely debated.

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Moral education is a key factor in To Kill A Mockingbird story. It affects how the younger generation will handle the situations given to  them. Racial equity in To Kill A Mockingbird is almost completely absent and evidently leads to a unhappy death. That is why schools in America are now taking it upon themselves to protect racial equity.

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Newsela | How one Missouri school is working to keep racial equity

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A desire for racial and economic equity motivated City Garden Montessori School in Missouri to rethink how to achieve true integration.

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Maturation in To Kill A Mockingbird is written as important steps in life. This article shows how children as they get older they start the growth and learning that develops in them. This connects in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in ways like the beginning to the end of the story of how Scout matures as a person and understands how people are treated.

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In psychology, maturation is the process of development in which an individual matures or reaches full functionality. Originally, maturation examined only biological forces, such as the aging process, involved in a child's changes in behavior. Maturation theories evolved to include cognitive development as a result of biological maturation and environmental experiences. Modern concepts of maturation theorize that it is the process of learning to cope and to react in emotionally appropriate ways.

Along with growth and learning, maturation is one of three processes that play a central role in a person's development. Maturation does not necessarily happen along with aging or physical growth, but is a part of growth and development.

The concept of maturation was pioneered by Arnold Gesell in the 1940s. He emphasized nature's role in human development. In developmental psychology, the concept of maturation was advanced by Jean Piaget. For him, simply growing up played a crucial role in children's increasing capacity to understand their world, posing that children cannot undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough. Today, cognitive theories of development do not adopt a strictly biological perspective. Instead, maturation relates to the interplay between genetics and socio-environmental influences. Also, maturation is no longer seen as being limited to childhood.

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In psychology, maturation is the process of development in which an individual matures or reaches full functionality. Originally, maturation examined only biological forces, such as the aging process, involved in a child's changes in behavior. Maturation theories evolved to include cognitive development as a result of biological maturation and environmental experiences.

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To Kill A Mockingbird contains moral education that was different for its time. The lessons shown to the children and younger generation were taught but also shown by actions from others. Now in 2019, we are thankful to have books for children that can teach key lessons of moral education.

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Newsela | Children's books with human characters can make a big difference

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Reading books with people as the main characters can make a big impact on a child's generosity and willingness to share.

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Perspective taking is shown in To Kill A Mockingbird. It affects the story by having the characters take into consideration the lives of the other characters they judge, and putting themselves into their shoes to see how they would feel. This article explains an organization where people tell their stories to each other and put themselves into their shoes

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Newsela | The barrier-breaking power of learning someone else's story

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Narrative 4, an organization that aims to build empathy in people through storytelling, is reaching teens around the world.