H arper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) carries one of the most evocative and familiar book titles of the 20th century.

These descriptions are as wild as they animals they talk about. Can you figure out which creatures they refer to?

In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...