To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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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"

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What do you think?Do you agree or disagree?

• 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.
• Under our justice system, all citizens are
  treated fairly in our courts of law.

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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.

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then Harper Lee now

• Biographical information
• http//aolsvc.teenreads.aol.com/authors/au-lee-har
  per.asp
• Reminiscences from former classmates
• http//www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/lee_ha
  rper/about/remin.html
• Comments to Oprah
• http//www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6347760.
  html
• Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day
• http//www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/books/30lee.html
  ?ex1296277200en8cf62412813411bbei5088partner
  rssnytemcrss
• Privacy versus publicity
• http//www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/09/11/feat/f
  eat.3.html

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The Great Depression

• Overview of the time period
• http//encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761584403/Grea
  t_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
  .htmltop
• Growing up during The Great Depression
• http//googolplex.cuna.org/12433/ajsmall/story.htm
  l?doc_id564

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Scottsboro Trials

• History of the Case
• http//www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/s
  cottsboro/SB_HRrep.htmlHISTORY20OF20THE20CASE
• International Labor Defense's (ILD) Involvement
• http//www.writing.upenn.edu/afilreis/88/scottsbo
  ro.html
• Famous Trials
• http//jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm
• Historical Context

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Jim Crow Laws

• What was Jim Crow? Examples of laws
• http//www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm
• Jim Crow Laws
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

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Lynching

• Newspaper articles from early 1900s
• http//www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blett
  iere/lynching_newspaper_articles.pdf
• General information about lynching
• http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynchin
  g/lynching.htm
• Lynching in America
• http//www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/l
  ynching.htm
• Strange Fruit a song about lynching
• http//www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fruitholid
  ay.html

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Random Facts about To Kill a Mockingbird


The Boo Radleys

• Publication of novel in regards to Civil Rights
  Movement timeline
• http//library.advanced.org/12111/SG/SG5.htmlpubs
  
• Interview Growing up black in the 1930s
• http//library.thinkquest.org80/12111/mculley.htm
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• Censorship of novel
• http//www.ala.org/Template.cfm?SectionbbwlinksT
  emplate/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfmCont
  entID136590
• Allusions to novel in popular culture
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
  _in_popular_culture