Teaching a unit based on the theme of coming of age is important in a classroom of adolescents. He has been taught language arts many times in high school. Coming-of-age works make up a large part of the literary canon, including works like TheAdventure of Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, etc. Additionally, this theme is important because the adolescent students in the class are essentially experiencing their own coming. of age. They are currently going through the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood. Students will be able to relate more easily to literature that focuses on a coming-of-age story than to other literary works. This will encourage students to participate more actively in class discussions and respond to texts. It also allows students to apply the things they learn from literature to their own lives and struggles growing up. I would say this is one of the most important things literature teachers can hope for. In this coming-of-age unit, the two main texts will be To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has become one of the most widely taught books in high school classrooms. In some classrooms, teachers use only a partial interpretation of the novel, focusing on racial injustice. Although this is an important theme of the novel and definitely needs to be taught, it is not the main theme of the novel. To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of this racial injustice through the perspective of a child. This is the coming of age story of the narrator, Scout. According to Theodore Hipple in “Will the Real Mockingbird Please Stand Up?” " (1969), the novel also tells the story of Jem's growth as he loses his childhood innocence as he moves toward adulthood. By viewing the novel as the coming-of-age story of two children, students will be able to relate to the work better than they would if they read it as an article about racial injustice. However, students will still be able to learn about the historical social injustice depicted in the novel. This is a good way for students to discover how the society they live in has been shaped. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story that holds a place in the literary canon and is an important historical account of