A strong community acts as a family during difficult times. The evidence for the family aspects of Maycomb is abundant in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and it is the focus of a lesson on the importance of setting as it relates to a novel's plot.

Concepts

to kill a mockingbird, setting, harper lee

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Encourage learners to write a paragraph about their own settings (time period, community, classroom, home, etc.) using figurative language
• Assign the final essay as a unit assessment

Classroom Considerations

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• Lesson duration is around 40 minutes

Pros

• Aligned to Common Core standards
• Examines the context of To Kill a Mockingbird in a way that lends well to an interdisciplinary unit social studies

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.3 RL.9-10.4 L.9-10.4.a L.9-10.4.d