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To Kill a Mockingbird

Students relate to Scout and Jem's efforts in meeting adult expectations, dealing with school and peer pressure, and entering puberty. Explore the themes of prejudice, growing up, and courage in this American classic set in 1930's Alabama.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird Written By Harper Lee

  2. Students relate to Scout and Jem’s efforts: ~Meeting adult expectations ~Dealing with the demands of school and peer pressure ~Entering puberty with some equanimity The novel is an American classic. It is an adult novel about the trials and tribulations of childhood.

  3. Born in 1926 Monroeville, Alabama Both father and sister were lawyers This Pulitzer Prize winning novel was the only she published until July 2015 Although it is a fictitious piece, try to find similarities to her life Harper Lee

  4. A small fictitious town experiencing the aftermath of The Great Depression. *What is a caste structure? *What are the implications of “The Depression”? *How might Maycomb being a small town affect the story? Setting:Maycomb, AlabamaEarly 1930’s

  5. Literary Elements • Themes • Prejudice: learning how to judge in reasonable fashion • Growing Up: family, society, self; finding your place • Courage: learning when, how, and what to fight • Plot • The conflict of humanity and society • Two major plot strands, Boo and Tom, break novel into two parts • Boo and Tom mirror one another • **Challenge: Figure out how they mirror…

  6. Key Words Challenge Understand the changing definitions: Education, courage, prejudice, lady background, trash Study Denotation & Connotation Of the terms

  7. “Scout” aka Jean Louise Finch An adult retelling the story of her girlhood from 6 to 8 years of age. It is not told by a six year old, but an adult recording her life as she saw it at six. Point of View:Speaker / Narrator

  8. Motifs • Look for the following items as you read. Using post-its to annotate the occurrences will help you with your quote journals and essays. • Mockingbirds, boundaries, formal education, point of view (“walking in someone else’s shoes”), battles and weapons, secrets and hypocrisies, superstitions and scare-stories, and “when to worry”…

  9. Characters • Scout (Jean Louise Finch): 6 year old female narrator • Jeremy “Jem” Finch: Scout’s older brother • Atticus Finch: Father of Jem and Scout • Calpurnia: Housekeeper and cook for the Finch family • Arthur “Boo” Radley: Neighbor of the Finch family and a mystery to the children who represents part one of the novel • Tom Robinson: African-American man who is accused of rape and whose trial represents part two of the novel

  10. Pulitzer Prize 1961 • Sold over 30 million copies and is translated into over 40 languages • “Best Novel of the Century” in 1999 by Library’s Journal • In 100 Best English Novels from 1923 to Present – Time Magazine • First on a 2006 list by librarians who answered the question: “Which book should every adult read before they die?” Accolades The novel To Kill a Mockingbird and its author Harper Lee have received numerous awards and recognitions since the first publication in 1960.

  11. 2007 • Harper Lee is being awarded America's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her outstanding contribution to literature. Her only* novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and is ranked by the Guinness Book of World Records as the top selling novel of all time. The novel has sold more than 30 million copies. Last week, To Kill a Mockingbird won the Quill Award for best audiobook of the year for its belated debut on audio.  (*changed in July 2015) • According to the citation, Lee is being honored for "an outstanding contribution to America's literary tradition. At a critical moment in our history, her beautiful book, To Kill a Mockingbird, helped focus the nation on the turbulent struggle for equality."

  12. What does it mean to “come full circle”? In chapter 1 there are many clues that will not be explained until the end, nearly 300 pages later. Chapter 1 is the most challenging chapter in the book. Nevertheless, it provides many necessary clues. Stay with it… it is worth it! Key Chapters:1, 9, 15, 20, & 25

  13. Activities • Group Brainstorm • What did you fear as children? • Places? People? Objects? • Why did the places, people, or objects make you uneasy? • How are such fears outgrown? • What equivalent fears do adults have? • What fears do we face as a society? • As you read • Keep a list of the mockingbird references • Write thought provoking questions you think the teacher might ask • Try to trace the development of themes • Log Scout’s social and emotional progress throughout the novel

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