This lesson contains 22 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.
Items in this lesson
Literature V6
Slide 1 - Slide
what do you know about the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
Slide 2 - Mind map
Roadmap
Context - the author and her life (today)
Setting - Alabama in the 1950ies (today)
Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) (today)
Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird (tomorrow)
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
- the combination of nostalgia and criticism make a mockingbird both endearing and enduring -
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Nelle Harper Lee
1926 - 2016
Monroeville (AL)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Go Set a Watchman (2015)
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the setting
- Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first new it.. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told it had nothing to fear but fear itself -
(Roosevelt 1933)
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Harper Lee
She grew up in the 1930s in a small town in Alabama, one of the USA's southern states.
youngest of four
Father = lawyer
The Great Depression
Racial unrest (Jim Crow laws, Rosa Parks, riots in Little rock High School)
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Slide 8 - Video
To Kill a Mockingbird
- the movie
(1962)
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What's with the title?
'I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' (p.99)
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What's with the title?
'"Your father's right', she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' (p.99).
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Main Characters
Jean Louise - Scout- Finch
6 years old when the book starts
Daughter of Atticus Finch
Sister to Jem
Mother died
Tomboy, fisty girl
- there is just one kind of folks, folks -
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Jem Finch
10-13 years old
Brother of Scout
Son of Atticus
Big Brother
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Atticus Finch
Dad to Jem and Scout
around 50 years of age
Lawyer
Kind, honest, patient, smart
- You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it -
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Cal (Calpurnia)
The Finch's cook and general help
Second mother to Scout
Mother to Zeebo
loyal, kind, sometimes very bossy
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Charles Baker Harris (Dill)
One year older than Scout
Stays with his aunt Rachel in the summer
Father is ...?
Mother can't really take care of him
Small for his age
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Arthur (Boo) Radley
Neighbour to Scout, Jem and Atticus
Mysterious and reclusive person with a Past
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Tom Robinson
Field worker
Married with children
Accused of raping a white woman
Atticus is his lawyer
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What went on before
Chapter 1:
The main characters, time, and place are introduced
We're in Maycomb, Alabama in the early 1930s.
Jean-Louise (Scout) Finch is our narrator.
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Boo Radley's story is told by Jem
Boo got into trouble with the law when he was as a teenager and has been locked up in his house ever since.
Age 33, he attacked his dad with a knife for no apparent reason.
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Chapter 2
Scout is finally allowed to go to school. Her first day, however, is a big disappointment.
