SwissEduc: Lee, Harper: *1926

Lesson Plans
- To Kill a Mockingbird project; a web project
- In Today's News. This activity helps students to transverse across historical time periods in order to better empathsize with the social and racial issues during Lee's literary writing period.
- Studying To Kill a Mockingbird: excellent lesson plan with just about everything you need.
- Student Activities: a lesson plan from San Diego County Office of Education. Grade level 9 - 10.
- Lessonplan from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
- To Kill a Mockingbird: An Historical Perspective. Students gain a sense of the living history that surrounds the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. They may better grasp how historical events and human forces have shaped relationships between black and white, and rich and poor cultures of our country. This unit guides students on a journey through the Depression Era in the 1930s.
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Mat Campione
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Parallels to Jim Crow America:This unit, although centered on the reading of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, seeks to broaden the context of the novel. This is accomplished as students explore the tragic case of the Scottsboro Boys in a WebQuest, an introduction to the Jim Crow System through supplemental readings, and research into actual demographic statistics of Monroeville and Monroe County, Alabama, of the 1930s. The unit plan includes literature circle response discussion and a variety of supplemental readings and activities to complete the picture of rural Alabama presented in the novel.
- To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Trial WebQuest: This lesson allows students to examine the Scottsboro trial and compare it to the trial in To Kill A Mockingbird
- To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial, two part lesson plan.
- Mapping the Mockingbird: This lesson offers a focused approach to studying the 1930s. Students catalog objects that are important location references to characters and events in the novel. Then they use the catalog to construct a physical map of Maycomb.
Other Teaching Information
- Thematic Discussions
- Groupwork: Create the Maycomb County Tribune newspaper
- Test
- Preparation Activities
- Discussion Questions from Chicago Public Library
- Note to Teachers with Questions for Class Discussion, Topics for Research, and Writing Projects
- Group work
- Unknown Words and Expressions (html, pdf, word documents) and topics for ESL class
- Cultural Literacy Test
- Discussion questions and activities
- Tea with Miss Alexandra
Teaching Ideas Connected to the Movie
- Film Study Guide
Handouts
- Comparing characters (pdf)
- Character traits (pdf)
- Historical characters from the Scottsboro Trial (pdf)
Quizzes with online correction
- easy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- average: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Summary questions
- Questions
- 90 Questions

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