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Copies of 'Watchman' in a Monroeville bookshop
CLEAN: Interior shots of bookshop workers unpacking copies of Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' and stamping them with a unique Monroeville imprint on February 18, 2015 in Monroeville, Alabama.
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People buying copies of Go Set a Watchman
CLEAN: Interior shots of people buying copies of Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' on February 18, 2015 in Monroeville, Alabama.
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Monroeville bookshop selling copies of 'Watchman'
CLEAN: Interior shots of people in a Monroeville bookshop buying copies of 'Go Set a Watchman' on February 18, 2015 in Monroeville, Alabama.
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Character Study: Scout Finch
Scout Finch, the rough-and-tumble protagonist of Harper Lee's iconic To Kill a Mockingbird, learns quite a bit about how the world works as she observes her father's defense of Tom Robinson. Learn more about Scout and her distinctive...
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To Kill a Mockingbird Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930s
The characters of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird are formed and informed, in part, by the distinctive historical backdrop of Alabama during the Great Depression. Watch a video that details Lee's experience growing up in...
PBS
Family and Identity through To Kill a Mockingbird
How does the Finch family structure set it apart from their community, even before Atticus begins defending Tom Robinson? Watch a video that discusses how Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird establishes a distinctly American world...
Crash Course
Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird
In the second video in a series about To Kill A Mockingbird, the narrator considers how Harper Lee uses the contrast between Scout's attitudes and those of the people of Maycomb to critique the ingrained southern attitudes toward race...
Crash Course
To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I
Harper Lee’s 1961 Pulitzer prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird gets the Crash Course treatment in two short videos. The first quickly summarizes the plot and the conventions of Southern Gothic Fiction before examining what the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Character Study: Scout Finch
This video [4:18] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo highlights Scout, one of the most beloved characters in all of American fiction and the main character of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the video, students learn what...
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Pbs Learning Media: Is to Kill a Mockingbird Still Relevant Today?
This video [4:34] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo highlights the social climate in the South when To Kill a Mockingbird was first published and a few years later, when the film premiered. The video highlights the reactions to...
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Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird: Southern Reaction 1960
This video [5:08] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo describes what life was like for those who challenged the system of segregation in the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Highlighting observations from cultural and...
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Pbs: To Kill a Mockingbird Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930s
In this video [4:34] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo, learn about the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee's hometown and the inspiration for the fictional town of Maycomb, the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird....
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective
Primary texts enhance study of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" by providing a sense of the book's Depression-era context, highlighting the relationship between whites and blacks during that time in the South.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird Part I
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird is a short video that discusses cultural, social aspects of the south as wells as character, plot and symbolism in an entertaining format.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 211: Race, Class, and Gender in to Kill a Mockingbird
A video in which author John Green discusses Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird with a focus on sharing human experiences to gain empathy. [11:36]
Shmoop University
Shmoop: To Kill a Mockingbird: Boo Radley
This resource provides a short video about the character, Boo Radley, from the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. [2:31]
Shmoop University
Shmoop: To Kill a Mockingbird: Quotes
Brief video describing the character Scout's quotes regarding her preference toward dressing like and boy and participating in boy-type activities. She makes numerous quotes about not wanting to be a girl and the video involves the...