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Powering Through Prose: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 17-21 Summary
Tom Robinson, an African American man, is now on trial for his alleged rape of Mayella Ewell. A guilty verdict means death by electrocution. Will Atticus be able to convince an all white jury of Tom’s innocence? Sitting in a packed...
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Powering Through Prose: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 6-11 Summary
The children’s second summer together is drawing to a close. But before Dill returns to Mississippi, our three mischief-makers try to catch a glimpse of the monster, Boo Radley. It nearly costs them their lives… and Jem’s trousers! More...
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Powering Through Prose: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 22-26 Summary
The heartbreak of the Tom Robinson case is followed by more horror. The children are learning some difficult truths about the society they live in. Their consolation is that Atticus thoroughly discredited Tom Robinson’s accusers - the...
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Powering Through Prose: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 12-16 Summary
Summer has come around again and - oh no - Aunt Alexandra has come to stay. It’s a good thing that Dill shows up because the children need each other more than ever. The trial of Tom Robinson, an African American man, is about to start...
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Powering Through Prose: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Plot Summary
Enjoy this much-loved classic as you’ve never seen it before! Join us for a journey into America’s Deep South in the 1930’s. The Great Depression has taken its toll on the people of Maycomb County, Alabama, and race relations are tense....
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Powering Through Prose: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 1-5 Summary
Welcome to Maycomb! Meet our protagonist Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, her brother Jeremy (‘Jem’) and their buddy Dill Harris. Follow the children’s adventures over two summers as they make mischief all over the neighbourhood. But they’d...
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Powering Through Prose: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapters 27-31 Summary
After the trauma of Tom Robinson’s case, things start to return to normal. Scout has her stage debut in the Maycomb Halloween pageant - her costume is a classic! Jem escorts her to and from the pageant, as a big brother should. But their...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Q&A: To Kill a Mockingbird
Top questions and answer for To Kill a Mockingbird.
PBS
To Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird?
One of the trademark texts of the American school system is Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. For decades it has been widely read in high schools and middle schools as a key anti-racist text. But how did this novel, with its...
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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...
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The Continuing Fight for Tom Robinson and To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, but its messages remain just as true today as they were in Harper Lee's novel. Learners watch a video that details the story of Anthony Ray Hinton, who was sent to prison for a crime he...
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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...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conflict: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces conflict in fiction writing. It is 2 of 7 in the series titled "Conflict."
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]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Asking Questions After Reading
This screencast focuses on using post-reading questions to evaluate and improve understanding of a text. It offers general question ideas and a specific example of questions for "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. [3:37]
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...