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To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I - Crash Course Literature 210
In which John Green teaches you about Harper Lee's famous (and only) novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. John will cover a bit about Harper Lee's personal life, (seeing as this novel has some autobiographical elements) and her long association...
Schooling Online
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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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...
The Art Assignment
Do Not Try to Eat This
Dada was a movement known for collage, upturned urinals, and its radicality--a reaction to the horrors of World War I. It was NOT known for its food, but in 1961 artist Man Ray offered this "Menu for a Dadaist Day," and we cooked it for...
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English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - Narrative Style, Techniques & Figurative Language in Prose Fiction (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Our second lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll tackle narrative style, techniques and figurative language. You’ll discover a writer’s number one rule – show, don’t tell. Soon enough, you’ll have all 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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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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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...
Crash Course
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...
Crash Course
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Character Study: Scout Finch
This video [4:18] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo highlights Scout, one of the most beloved characters in all of American fiction and the main character of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the video, students learn what...
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Pbs: To Kill a Mockingbird Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930s
In this video [4:34] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo, learn about the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee's hometown and the inspiration for the fictional town of Maycomb, the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird....
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Pbs Learning Media: Is to Kill a Mockingbird Still Relevant Today?
This video [4:34] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo highlights the social climate in the South when To Kill a Mockingbird was first published and a few years later, when the film premiered. The video highlights the reactions to...
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Pbs Learning Media: To Kill a Mockingbird: Southern Reaction 1960
This video [5:08] from American Masters: Harper Lee: Hey, Boo describes what life was like for those who challenged the system of segregation in the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Highlighting observations from cultural and...
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.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird Part I
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird is a short video that discusses cultural, social aspects of the south as wells as character, plot and symbolism in an entertaining format.