Mr. Trevenen's Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird


	"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
	Menu: Resources Assignments and Questions Resources To Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Survival Guide - This is an excellent site that offers to be a reader's guide to To Kill a Mockingbird. Use it to explain words and allusions that appear in the chapters. It also summarizes the chapters quickly for reference and reminders. The History of Jim Crow - Meant as a complementary site of information for the PBS short series The History of Jim Crow, this site is meant for educators and others interested in that period of American history. To Kill a Mockingbird: Parallels to Jim Crow America - Lesson plans for an in-depth unit that combines social studies and language arts from the site "The History of Jim Crow." Learning Guide to To Kill a Mockingbird (the movie) - This site offers teaching and learning suggestions for selected movies and To Kill a Mockingbird is one of them. Lesson Plan from the Yale-New Haven Teachers' Institute - A lesson plan for Mockingbird found in a larger unit. Novelguide.com: To Kill a Mockingbird - Just as its name suggests, Novelguide.com offers reading information for the novel including character profiles, metaphor analysis and popular quotes. SCORE's To Kill a Mockingbird Unit - This supplemental unit To Kill a Mockingbird was developed by Linda Taggart-Fregoso in the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Project, funded by the California Technology Assistance Program (CTAP) and the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA). This is a well written lesson plan. Assignments and Questions Examine the early images of the children of Maycomb County, particularly the games played by Jem and Scout in chapter one, the children in Miss Caroline's first grade in chapter two and Walter Cunningham in chapter three. From what we learn about what these children think, what can we tell about the adults of Maycomb County? Choose a passage from the text of To Kill a Mockingbird that you believe expresses an important point about a character or the message of the story. Copy the passage onto your paper and write about what you found so important about the passage. For examples of this assignment, please log on to this site and read the Student Commentaries by Chris, Kinna and Lacy.. E-mail Thomas Trevenen Copyright 2001-2002 by Thomas Trevenen Number of visitors since January 8, 2001: Back to Top