To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom, #6 on Big Read List (UK's top 200), #1 TIME All-Time best 100 English Language Novels 1923-2005, Brotherhood Award National Conference of Christians and Jews, Paperback of Year Bestsellers magazine. <BR><BR> Through Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning story, To Kill a Mockingbird, students will learn:<BR> Author Biography: Learn about Harper Lee. <BR> Historical Background: Learn the background behind the civil rights movement and equal rights.<BR> Before-You-Read Activities: Written or oral reports on American Civil War, Slavery, or Civil Rights movement, study the U.S. Constitution, Jim Crow laws, listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. and write a response. <BR> Vocabulary words used throughout the novel, utilizing a variety of activities to stimulate retention and growth. <BR> Literary Techniques: In context, synonym, setting, characterization, point of view, exposition, foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, extended metaphor, foil, irony, dynamic and static characters, theme, motif. <BR> Moral Lessons and Character Values: Point of view, superstition, rumor, private and public life being the same, pride, reaction to insults, courage, unity, division, justice, discrimination, racial injustice, hypocrisy. <BR> Activities and Writing Assignments including five choices of comparison essays, race relations, and equality. <BR> Suggestions for Further Reading: We include an in-depth reading list of more books by the same author and other books that tie in with, or are similar to, To Kill a Mockingbird. <BR><BR> All of the unit lessons are written from a Christian worldview! <BR><BR>

• Large 8.5x11 printed workbook format is convenient to read and easy on the eyes
• Every question has plenty of whitespace for student's answers
• Encourages neat and clean handwriting practice
• Easily transports without the need for a laptop or other expensive equipment
• Provides a permanent record of the student's work
• Convenient, removable answer key included for the teacher!
• Study guides do not contain the text of the story, play, poems, or book.
• Recommended for grades 9-12.
• Setting: Alabama, Southern USA, 1930s
• Genre: American literature