Mrs. Kurucz
ckurucz@tvhs.k12.vt.us
Introduction
In this classic novel, Scout narrates the story of her youth growing up in Maycomb, Alabama. The situations in this novel will make you laugh, gasp in disbelief, feel outraged, and even question your own society.
Before we begin reading this novel, it is important for you to understand the life and time of the South during the 1930's. This was a time when racism and prejudice were prevalent; poverty was rampant due to the Great Depression; and children were not meant to be heard. Life was hard.
In order to show you these life and times, you are to follow the task and steps below.
Task
To submit a Viewer's Literacy Guide answering questions while working through the web sites below.
Process
1. Using the selected
Web sites, view and read about life in the South during
the Great Depression. The Viewer's Literacy Guide will direct you on what
to view.
Growing Up White during the 1930's Growing Up Black during the 1930's Photographs Enforcing Racial Discrimination |
 Photo by Esther Bubley |
2. Follow the steps and complete the Viewer's Literacy Guide . Print out this guide, complete it, and submit it to me. The guide tells you what sites to look at and when. Please read each piece carefully.
Evaluations
1. Viewer's Literacy Guide -- make sure this is detailed and in complete sentences.
Conclusion
These activities were designed to help you:
- to identify elements of living during the Great Depression
- to determine what life was like in the South during the 1930's
- to examine prejudice, stereotypes, and racism within society
- to question our treatment of others
Cybrary
http://www.madison.k12.ky.us/co/oot/msa/Southern/TOKILL.htm
This site is an
informational site for students reading and writing about TKAM. Watch
out for some of the sections -- they are student responses and may not
be completely accurate. Also some of the additional links to this link
may not work.
http://www.elwood.k12.nf.ca/ThemLit_Theme%20
Essays_01/memorable_quotes_from_to_kill_a_.htm
This site contains
some memorable quotations from the novel.
http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=Unit&WCU=5300
This site gives some
general definitions of terms from the novel as well as links as to how
they apply to the novel. It's important to click on the links at the bottom
of most pages in order to find the needed information.
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/mockingbird/scripts.html
This site contains
activities for scripts and storyboards. You might use it to locate pages
of events in the novel for characters, setting, or themes.
http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/hs/eng/hurd/prereadi.htm
This site is general background information. Some of the links within
the text work; some do not.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html
This site accounts the Scottsboro trial, upon which the trial of Tom Robinson
is based. Many comparisons can be made between the two.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
This site contains many links to the information on the American South;
it is not TKAM specific, but you may enjoy it for background reading.
http://www.fsu.edu/~CandI/ENGLISH/webquests/mocking.htm
Another school site about the novel -- scroll to the Resources section,
which contains a number of extension sites.
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19268_20778-52530--,00.html
This site lists prices for items during the Great Depression.
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