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Learning Objective
• Topic: To Kill A Mockingbird
• Do: Read and analyze story
• Level of Thinking: Analysis
Last Week
• “To Kill A Mockingbird”
– Read Chapter 22-24
– For Chapter 18-31 Test
• Be sure you are studying your vocabulary words
• Be sure you know definition of illusion and idiom
and are able to give examples from Chapters
18-31
• Review summaries/analysis for Chapters 18-31
on TKAM Student Survival website and
SparkNotes (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/)
– Focus: Character Development
Last Week (cont.)
• “To Kill A Mockingbird”
– Chapters 18-31 J-103-104
1. Do the characters reflect the tensions of the Civil Rights?
2. What are the most important turning points in the novel? Why?
3. What are five themes within the novel?
4. What does Harper Lee’s voice tell us about the concerns and dreams
of her generation?
5. If you were the voice of your generation, what would be your most
important message?
6. In the first 21 chapters, what character has changed the most? Are the
changes profound or just a result of growing up?
Vocabulary:
notoriety
furtive
remorse
mollified
subtlety
discreet hypocrite
iota
indignant
infantile
Don’t forget to study allusions and idioms at TKAM Student
Survival website http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/
This Week
• “To Kill A Mockingbird”
– Read Chapter 25-31
• Monday-Project Presentations/Read TKAM
Chp. 25-26
• Tuesday-Read TKAM Chp. 27
– For Chapter 18-31 Test
• Be sure you are studying your vocabulary words
• Be sure you know definition of illusion and idiom
and are able to give examples from Chapters
18-31
• Review summaries/analysis for Chapters 18-31
on TKAM Student Survival website and
SparkNotes (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/)
This Week (cont.)
• “To Kill A Mockingbird”
– Chapters 18-31 J-103-104
1. Do the characters reflect the tensions of the Civil Rights?
2. What are the most important turning points in the novel? Why?
3. What are five themes within the novel?
4. What does Harper Lee’s voice tell us about the concerns and dreams
of her generation?
5. If you were the voice of your generation, what would be your most
important message?
6. In the first 21 chapters, what character has changed the most? Are the
changes profound or just a result of growing up?
Vocabulary:
notoriety
furtive
remorse
mollified
subtlety
discreet hypocrite
iota
indignant
infantile
Don’t forget to study allusions and idioms at TKAM Student
Survival website http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/
Homework
• Finish any incomplete
classwork
• Read To Kill A Mockingbird
Chapters 27
Prompts for Project
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To Kill A Mockingbird is set in the 1930s but was published in 1960.
Have attitudes to racism remained the same or have there been any
changes (for the better or worse) since then, in your view? Prepare to
give examples of how it has gotten better or worse.
Give a brief overview of Chapter 24. How, in Chapter 24, do we see
Aunt Alexandra in a new light? How does Miss Maudie support her?
Why is the court of public opinion sometimes more influential than
the court of law? Refer to the novel and an example in real life.
Do you think the missionary ladies are sincere in worrying about the
“Mrunas” (a tribe in Africa)? Give reasons for your answer. What is
your opinion of the Maycomb ladies, as depicted in Chapter 24? Why
do you think that way? What can you learn from the women of
Maycomb about proper and improper behavior?
Why does Aunt Alexandra accept that the Cunninghams may be
good but are not "our kind of folks"? Do you think that people should
mix only with others of the same social class and/or race? Are
class/race-divisions good or bad for societies? Give evidence to
support your answer.
What is “circumstantial evidence”? What has it got to do with Tom's
conviction? Should it be used in trials? Explain your answer?
Three Days Late
• Last night read Chapter 24 To
Kill A Mockingbird
Due Today
• To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters
25-26
• Project Presentations