Name: _____________________
Group members: _____________________
To Kill a Mockingbird Google Docs Project
You will be conducting a computer quest to find information about incidents, items, locations, and people who influenced Harper Lee and thus the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
This is not an organized web crawl, as I want you to explore many of the websites available for a variety of information. Each group of three will use Google
Docs Presentation to create the project.
Select two other students to work with on this project. Each of you will be required to search for one category for your group, but each group will be required to submit ALL of the items listed below in one Google Docs
Presentation .
You will evaluate yourself and the other members in your group for the amount of work and effort you put forth on this project. This will count as a summative grade.
* No written work is copy and pasted, this is plagiarism! All work is to be written by students, in their own words! Grammar Counts! Slides should be proof read and writing must be in complete sentences. *
SETTING AND HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS
1.
__Locate and copy a map that shows the location of Monroeville, Alabama, the “fictional” setting of To Kill a Mockingbird.
2.
__Since the story is set in 1933, find and insert into your presentation five pictures that reveal everyday life in the South during that time.
3.
__Find five facts about the Great Depression and how it affected the economy.
4.
__Determine how much money $1.50 would be equal to today.
5.
__What were the sit down strikes in Birmingham?
6.
__Find a picture of Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt.
7.
__Find out who Edgar Rice Burroughs was and what types of books he wrote.
8.
__Find out about the 1933 University of Alabama football team. Who was the coach?
9.
__Who is Windy Seaton?
10.
__Find a copy of the picture entitled “The Light of the World” by Hunt.
11.
__What are the major daily newspapers in Alabama?
12.
__Obtain a picture of Truman Capote and try to discover the link between Capote and Harper Lee.
13.
__Discover information about the Scottsboro Boy’s Trial. Obtain the basic facts of the case.
14.
__Discover how often it snows in South Alabama, and what the weather was like in South Alabama in 1933.
15.
__Who is Dixie Howell? Find a picture!
16.
__What does a “Lydia E. Pinkham” bottle look like?
17.
__Find a copy of a speech by Henry W. Grady.
18.
__Tell about William Jennings Bryan.
19.
__Find a Southern “haint” story and print it.
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WHITE AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE
1.
__Find some examples of “Jim Crow Laws” and print at least five of them.
2.
__Find five pictures that reveal what life was like for African-American folks who lived in the South during the 1930’s.
3.
__What was the great “black migration”?
4.
__What was the Harlem Renaissance and give two examples (each) of writers, dancers, singers, and artists.
5.
__What was the membership of the Ku Klux Klan in 1933?
6.
__Read an oral history of an African-American person who lived through this time and summarize it.
7.
__What are
Blackstone’s Commentaries
? Why is it ironic that these belong to Calpurnia?
8.
__Find a picture of an African American school in session in 1933.

FASHION, FOOD, FLORA AND FAUNA
1.
__Find a picture of an azalea, a camellia, a canna and a grape arbor.
2.
__Get the following recipes: greens, cracklin’ cornbread, ham charlotte, ambrosia, berry tarts, and divinity fudge.
3.
Find a picture of a union suit (not a military outfit).
4.
__Find an example of the dress standards for men, women, and children in the 1930’s.
5.
__Find a picture of a mockingbird and listen to its song. Make sure you obtain facts about its habitat and its singing abilities.
6.
__Find a picture of a CSA pistol.
7.
__Find a picture of an Indian-head penny.
8.
__Find a picture of a yellow martin (a type of bird).
9.
__Find a picture of a monkey-puzzle bush.
10.
__What is a bantam rooster and what does it look like?
11.
__Try to discover what “Old Family” and “background” means.
12.
__What is the WPA?
13.
__NRA—WE DO OUR PART was part of what campaign during the Roosevelt administration?
When you are finished with your work you need to check to be sure:
1.
Put all work in order, divided appropriately into the three sections with a cover slide for each section.
2.
All work should be in the groups Google Docs Presentation!
3.
Title the cover of the Presentation. Include all your names on the front cover.
Fill out an evaluation form for you and your group.