To Kill a Mockingbird
Literary Response
Use the General Rubric to help you with the structure and organization for these homework
assignments.
The response is due at the beginning of class on the double period each week for the next threefour weeks. Please type and double space your responses using size 12 font. You should aim
for three to five well-developed paragraphs for each of these responses.
CONNECTION
Connect something you have read in To Kill a Mockingbird to anything else you have read, watched,
or listened to. Does a character in the novel remind you of a famous person in the media or someone
in your life? Does an event in our novel make you think of something else you have read on your
own or studied in class? Make sure to provide adequate support for your claims by providing quotes
from the novel and examples from life.
COMPARE/CONTRAST
Compare and contrast something or someone in the novel to something else. You can compare and
contrast a character to another character, to yourself, or the same character to him/her self from
different parts of the novel. You can compare and contrast events in the novel to the real world or to
an ideal world (the way it should be). You decide what two things will be examined. Make sure to
provide adequate support for your claims by providing quotes from the novel and examples from life.
PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Select any character (except for Scout) and “walk in his (or her) shoes” for a while. Write in the first
person and tell the reader about the events of the novel from your point of view. Cover at least three
events or three specific details from one big event and support your claims with quotes. You may add
creative touches and little known “facts” about this character.
PERSUASIVE
Isolate one issue that comes up in the reading and explain how the issue pertains to the novel. When
you have done this, take a position and convince your readers to agree with you by providing several
examples from your experience or the world at large. Some of the issues explored in our novel are
prejudice, sexism, racism, poverty, snobbery and friendship, just to name a few. Make sure to
provide adequate support for your claims by providing quotes from the novel and examples from life.
CLASSIFICATION
Classify into categories anything we have read so far in the novel. Try to classify types of characters
we have met so far by a common criterion, or characters’ reactions to a common event. Perhaps you
see patterns in the story that play and replay, can these be categorized? Make sure to provide
adequate support for your claims by providing quotes from the novel.