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Understanding the Jim Crow Era: Context for "To Kill a Mockingbird"

This assignment encourages reflection on personal experiences with discrimination based on physical attributes or age and connects them to images from the Jim Crow Era. Students will analyze photographs to gain insight into the social context of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Each photo requires a graphic organizer response that includes an observation, reflection, and question. The task helps students grapple with the complex emotions these images evoke while fostering predictions about tone, setting, and conflict in the novel.

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Understanding the Jim Crow Era: Context for "To Kill a Mockingbird"

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  1. Warmup • Think of a time you couldn’t do something based on your physical attributes or age. • Or, have you ever been discriminated against because of your age or appearance? • How did you feel? What did you do? Why?

  2. Content Language Objective • Read and reflect on images related to the Jim Crow Era in order to gain an understanding on the social context of the setting in “To Kill A Mockingbird”

  3. Assignment: • After each photo complete the graphic organizer on a separate piece of paper. • Be sure to include an observation, a reflection and a question for each image. • It is ok to be angered or confused by these images, some are graphic and disturbing but all are actual images from a bygone era in American history and serve to set the context of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

  4. Photo #1

  5. Photo #2

  6. Photo #3

  7. Photo #4

  8. Photo # 5

  9. Photo # 6

  10. Photo # 7

  11. Exit Slip • After looking at these photos, predict the tone, setting and conflict in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Use evidence to support your prediction.

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