Can you understand more about how a person acts by learning about how that person lives? An interactive resource explores the setting of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird with several slides discussing the location, social conditions, and time period of the fictional (but historically inspired) town of Maycomb, Alabama.

Concepts

to kill a mockingbird, harper lee, setting, racism, empathy

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Compare and contrast the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird to another book set in the Great Depression, such as The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Have learners write an analytical essay at the end of the unit based on the questions on the first page of the interactive resource

Classroom Considerations

• Users need to have access to the Internet to explore the slides
• Some slides require viewers to login in their accounts to view or save their work

Pros

• Includes extensive vocabulary that pertains to the time and location setting of the novel
• Provides several primary source images that help to place the reader in the scene

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.7.1 RL.7.2 RL.7.3 RL.7.10 RL.8.1 RL.8.2 RL.8.3 RL.8.10 RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.5 RL.9-10.10a RL.11-12.1 RL.11-12.3 RL.11-12.10a