To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
"Shoot all the blue jays you want,
if you can hit 'em, but remember
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
What do you think?
Do you agree or disagree?
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All men are created equal.
Girls should act like girls.
It's okay to be different.
Nobody is all bad or all good.
Some words are so offensive that they should never be stated
or written.
6. Under our justice system, all citizens are treated fairly in our
courts of law.
Keep thinking.
Agree or Disagree?
7. The old adage, "Sticks and stones may break your bones,
but words will never hurt you," is true.
8. Speaking standard grammar proves that a person is smart.
9. A hero is born, not made.
10. No one is above the law.
11. Education is the great equalizer.
12. When the law does not succeed in punishing criminals,
citizens should do so.
then
Harper Lee now
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Biographical information
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http://aolsvc.teenreads.aol.com/authors/au-lee-harper.asp
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Reminiscences from former classmates
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http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/lee_harper/about/remin.html
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Comments to Oprah
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http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6347760.html
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Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/books/30lee.html?ex=129627720
0&en=8cf62412813411bb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Privacy versus publicity
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/09/11/feat/feat.3.ht
The Great Depression
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Overview of the time period
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761584403/Great_Depression_in
_the_United_States.html
Cultural information about the time period
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html
Music
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/depress.html#top
Growing up during The Great Depression
http://googolplex.cuna.org/12433/ajsmall/story.html?doc_id=564
Scottsboro Trials
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History of the Case
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRre
p.html#HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20CASE
International Labor Defense's (ILD) Involvement
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/scottsboro.html
Famous Trials
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm
Historical Context
Jim Crow Laws
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What was Jim Crow? Examples of laws
http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm
Jim Crow Laws
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
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Lynching
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Newspaper articles from early 1900s
http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/lynching_newsp
aper_articles.pdf
General information about lynching
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm
Lynching in America
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynching.htm
“Strange Fruit” a song about lynching
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fruitholiday.html
Random Facts about
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Boo Radleys
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Publication of novel in regards to Civil Rights Movement timeline
http://library.advanced.org/12111/SG/SG5.html#pubs
Interview: Growing up black in the 1930s
http://library.thinkquest.org:80/12111/mculley.html
Censorship of novel
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bbwlinks&Template=/Content
Management/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=136590
Allusions to novel in popular culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_in_popular_culture