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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Setting in to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, learners explore the importance of setting in literature and apply their learning to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Students are introduced to the three main components of setting: time, place,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of four video lessons and a teacher's guide about Harper Lee and her masterpiece "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Profiles in Courage to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers two separate lesson plans which focus on the theme of "Courage," as portrayed in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and court transcripts (and other primary source material) from the second Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1933.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: To Kill a Mockingbird

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia explores the 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Harper Lee. The article includes a description, a plot summary, and a look at the movie adaptation and other cultural influences.
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Handout
Vocabulary.com

Vocabulary.com: Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" Chapters 11 20

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a series of vocabulary words as they appear in Harper Lee's classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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The English Teacher

Teacher2b.com: To Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this sample test for the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Teachers can pick and choose the questions that will fit with their students learning styles.
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Unit Plan
The English Teacher

Teacher2b.com: Notes for "To Kill a Mockingbird"

For Students 9th - 10th
Review notes for the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
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The Book Report

Teenreads.com: To Kill a Mockingbird, Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find a brief review of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," as well as a biography of the author and along excerpt from the novel.
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Interactive
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: To Kill a Mockingbird Wordlist and Vocabulary Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a To Kill a Mockingbird wordlist and vocabulary puzzles.
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Study Guide
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Book Summary for to Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a booklist (alphabetical by Parts) and a fill-in-the-blanks word puzzle for To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: News Hour Extra: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns Fifty

For Students 9th - 10th
Background on the history of the novel, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', banned in many U.S. school districts for many years, but now recognized as one of the greatest American novels. (July 14, 2010)
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Other

To Kill a Mockingbird the Student Survival Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A study guide for "To Kill A Mockingbird." Gives chapter summaries, vocabulary words, and allusions with helpful hints. Also provides links to other sources and lesson plans for teachers.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: (Nelle) Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a detailed biography of Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." The biography includes numerous passages from the novel, and how the novel related to Lee's life and environment.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Mob's Voice vs. Hero's Voice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is used to get learners to explore point of view and issues related voice in writing and social justice. This lesson requires the students to analyze and discuss the...
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Harper Lee

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about the life and work of Harper Lee when you visit this informative site. This site provides links to activities, vocabulary lessons, newspaper articles and more focused on the book "To Kill A Mockingbird."
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Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
CliffsNotes offers a comprehensive overview of the novel by Harper Lee entitled "To Kill a Mockingbird." Here you can find chapter summaries, character analyses, study help, a biography of the author, and more.
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Unit Plan
Swiss Educ

Swiss Educ: Lee, Harper 1926

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a rich collection of both background and teaching ideas, with a great number of multimedia files. Includes what purports to be a phone message from Lee herself.
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Handout
Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Arts and Literature: Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical portrait of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: To Kill a Mockingbird Theme Quotes

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of 34 flashcards about thematic elements in To Kill a Mockingbird. Play games, match definitions, and take a quiz to learn. Registration may be required to access some resources.
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Other

David's Gallimaufry: To Kill a Mockingbird, Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by an experienced high school teacher, this study guide includes notes about the book, about its 1930's setting, review material and quizzes. Also provides links to other relevant sites on Lee, the novel and the time period.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (12) reading passages (grades 7-11) to pair with "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. A young Scout watches her father, prominent lawyer Atticus Finch, defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman in the...