Lesson 2-Profiles in Courage: To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial

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Review one of the most memorable cases in the history of the United States. After reading To Kill A Mockingbird, young scholars read and select court transcripts and other primary source material from the Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1933. They compare historical events from the trial with the trial that takes place in To Kill A Mockingbird. There are an awful lot of similarities, aren't there?

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primary source analysis, primary sources, close reading, textual analysis