To Kill a Mockingbird
Unit Links
Bambini
1. Cool Map of Maycomb County, Alabama
http://fitzgeraldenglish.wikispaces.com/Map+of+Maycomb,+Alabama
2. Blues song by Billie Holliday called “Strange Fruit” Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
3. Harper Lee receiving Presidential Medal of Freedom (go to 32:34)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doBkcj8Ic6s
4. Battle over royalties for Harper Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jHLlaEAgA
5. FDR First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933: “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself…”
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstinaugural.html
6. Modern editorial on TKAM
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2009/11/why_to_kill_a_mockingbird_matt.html
7. Predicting Text meaning and content
http://ctl.byu.edu/sites/default/files/critical_reading_mini-lessons/29How_to_Predict_the_Contents_and_Structure_of_a_Text.pdf
8. Schmoop Lesson Plan for TKAM
http://www.shmoop.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird/
9. YouTube video Jim Crow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7eNRB2_0Q
10. What is Jim Crow?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij6DWZ-W-KA
11. The Help – Jim Crow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnA1WUjGSXk
12. Audio book TKAM, read by Sissy Spacek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9vFRNteDfM
13. CBS Sunday morning anniversary of TKAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpuMF0iMx4
14. Historical Context for TKAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgC09oMIwLc
15. Q and A with Scout (child actress in TKAM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhozdarXBaI
16. Blog about THE HELP scene regarding Jim Crow laws
http://joanne-young.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-help-met-jim-crow.html
17. Jim Crow Laws excerpt
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-jim-crow-laws.html
18. TKAM allusions from the novel
http://mrsconnell-hss.wikispaces.com/TKAM+Allusions
19. Harper Lee Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021
20. Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee in Capote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehvxvoptt1Q