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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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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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Britannica Q&A: To Kill a Mockingbird
Top questions and answer for To Kill a Mockingbird.
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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 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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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird - Context
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...
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Video Sparknotes: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Summary
Check out Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Video SparkNote: Quick and easy To Kill a Mockingbird synopsis, analysis, and discussion of major characters and themes in the novel. For more To Kill a Mockingbird resources, go to...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (10/10) Movie CLIP - Scout Meets Boo Radley (1962) HD
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Atticus's Closing Statement - To Kill a Mockingbird (7/10) Movie CLIP (1962) HD
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Mayella's Guilt - To Kill a Mockingbird (5/10) Movie CLIP (1962) HD
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The real reason To Kill A Mockingbird became so famous
Find Overrated on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/OverratedTheShow/ In this episode of Overrated, Vox's Phil Edwards investigates the largely unheralded business reason behind the success of Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird."...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (4/10) Movie CLIP - Atticus Cross-Examines Mayella (1962) HD
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1/10) Movie CLIP - What Kind of Man Are You? (1962) HD
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To Kill a Mockingbird (2/10) Movie CLIP - There's a Lot of Ugly Things in This World (1962) HD
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To Kill a Mockingbird (3/10) Movie CLIP - The Children Save Atticus (1962) HD
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To Kill a Mockingbird (9/10) Movie CLIP - Boo is a Hero (1962) HD
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All Men Are Created Equal - To Kill a Mockingbird (6/10) Movie CLIP (1962) HD
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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Holden, JD, and the Red Cap- The Catcher in the Rye Part 2
In Part 2 of a course on The Catcher in the Rye, the narrator examines J.D. Salinger's life and considers how the author's experiences during World War II may have influenced his portrayal of Holden Caulfield. How Salinger creates...