In which John Green teaches you MORE about To Kill a Mockingbird. In this installment, John teaches you about race, class, and gender in the American south, as seen through the eyes of Scout and Harper Lee. John will talk about how Scout...

Join us for a comprehensive lesson on the context of Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird reflects the tensions in American society during the Civil Rights Movement. But the novel’s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...