To+Kill+A+Mocking+Bird

**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 Black during the 1930's Photographs Enforcing Racial Discrimination Explanation of Jim Crow Laws Examples of Jim Crow Laws Murder of Emmett Till FSA-OWA Photographs Photographs of Greensboro, Alabama Photographs of Selma, Alabama Photographs of Eutaw, Alabama || Photo by Esther Bubley ||
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Evaluations** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Viewer's Literacy Guide -- make sure this is detailed and in complete sentences.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Conclusion** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These activities were designed to help you: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Cybrary** @http://www.madison.k12.ky.us/co/oot/msa/Southern/TOKILL.htm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This site contains some memorable quotations from the novel. @http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=Unit&WCU=5300 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/mockingbird/scripts.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@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.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to identify elements of living during the Great Depression
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to determine what life was like in the South during the 1930's
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to examine prejudice, stereotypes, and racism within society
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to question our treatment of others

@http://mockingbird.chebucto.org/bio.html<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This site provides biography information of the novel's author, Harper Lee. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Webquest** | [|Guide] |[| Paragraph]| [|Rubric]


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