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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird. By Harper Lee. What is the setting of the book?. People were poor. Jobs were scarce. A drought in the South led to dust storms that destroyed crops. “The Dust Bowl”. And then there was Hoover. President during the Crash

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee

  2. What is the setting of the book?

  3. People were poor . . . Jobs were scarce

  4. A drought in the South led to dust storms that destroyed crops. “The Dust Bowl”

  5. And then there was Hoover • President during the Crash • A whole new vocabulary was created to describe programs started by this president • “Hooverisms”

  6. Hooverville • The little towns of ramshackle tin houses and lean-tos that grew up around the country after the Crash

  7. Hoover Blankets The only thing many people could find with which to cover themselves

  8. Hoover Cars • There was no money for gas, so . . .

  9. Jim Crow Laws From the 1880s to the 1960s, many states used “Jim Crow” laws to enforce segregation. Public businesses and institutions were not allowed to let their black and white patrons intermingle. segregation

  10. Schools were also segregated

  11. In Alabama, buses had to have different waiting rooms as well as separate ticket windows Theater customers were directed to separate seating for whites and blacks

  12. and in Alabama where our story is told: • No Caucasian nurses were allowed to do their jobs in wards or rooms in hospitals where black men were placed • It was unlawful for a black person and a white to play together in a game of billiards (pool) • All toilet facilities were separate **pg. 195-201**

  13. Scottsboro Boys Trial • 9 young African-American men (13-20) accused of raping 2 white girls in 1931 • Immediately sentenced to death • Trials went on for nearly 15 years before all the men were dismissed

  14. Civil Rights Movement • P. 212-214

  15. This story is about a girl in Alabama and her brother about courage and cowardice Justice and prejudice

  16. and about her father, a man named Atticus

  17. Who believed in justice . . . for all men even when his family was threatened

  18. Then there’s the mockingbird, but you will have to figure that out as you read.

  19. About Harper Lee, the author • Won Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for To Kill a Mockingbird • Born in Monroeville, Alabama-also Truman Capote’s town • Received her degree from the University of Alabama in 1945 • Did not publish a successful book after this one • Many details of this book are autobiographical • Her father was an attorney • Maycomb is very much like her hometown • Her story parallels Scout’s

  20. The character of “Dill,” Scout and Jem’s playmate in the novel was based upon Lee’s actual neighbor, Truman Capote • Capote is famous for amongst other things, In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. • It has been said that he gave Lee Mockingbird as a gift.

  21. To Kill a Mockingbird • Genre: historical novel, Southern drama • Published in more than 40 languages • Themes: are people essentially good or evil, the existence of social inequality, and the importance of moral education • Point of View: told from Scout’s view looking back as an adult, first person

  22. Summative Assessment • P. 225

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