Activities.pdf. Openmind. To Kill a Mockingbird. Introduction This guide is written for teachers and students who are studying Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
The guide is written specifically for students in the UK, but I hope it may be helpful to users from other parts of the world. To Kill a Mockingbird is a set text for GCSE exams in English literature. It may also be studied for teacher-assessed coursework in English in Key Stages 3 and 4 (GCSE reading). About the novel To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960. Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, which may be the model for the fictional Maycomb. Back to top Studying the text There are many ways in which one can write about a literary text, but among those most commonly encountered at Key Stages 3 and 4 would be to study character, theme and technique. Chapter-by-chapter questions The questions below should help students and teachers find what is important in the novel, and could prove useful for revision. Chapter 1 Back to top of page Chapter 2 Chapter 3.
The Murder Of Emmett Till - Documetary in HD. To Kill a Mockingbird: Enrichment Tasks. To Kill a Mockingbird: Setting. Setting — Time and Place To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in southern Alabama.
The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. For parts of the deep South like Maycomb County, the Depression meant only that the bad times that had been going on for decades got a little bit worse. These rural areas had long been poor and undeveloped. Black people worked for low wages in the fields. Scout's family, the Finches, belong to the elite of local society. Instead of bringing people together, the shared experience of poverty seemed to contribute to making the South more class-conscious than other parts of the country.
You will notice that none of the characters in this story takes much interest in the world beyond Maycomb County. Of course, the most important difference between the South of the 1930s and the South today is that in the 1930s a system of segregation was in force. The Murder of Emmett Till. Emmett Till was 14 years old in the summer of 1955 when he was murdered by two white men in Money, Mississippi.
Why did this happen? Because Emmett had whistled at a white woman. Emmett Till was raised in Chicago, where segregation was less severe than in the South. If Emmett Till had been raised in Mississippi, he would have known that there were written and unwritten rules there for how black people were expected to behave around white people.
The official rules of segregation, known as “Jim Crow” laws, prohibited black people from using “whites only” water fountains and restrooms, sitting in the “whites only” section at restaurants or on buses, or buying a home in a white neighborhood. Emmett traveled to Money, Mississippi, to visit relatives that summer. But even as many southern whites rejoiced in the verdict, many black citizens of the South were moved by anger and grief over Emmett Till’s murder to protest segregation and the rules it forced them to live by. To Kill a Mockingbird: Emmett Till. Grade_10_-_English_200_-_Justice_and_TKAM.