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CommonLit  Assignments

Chapter One: An Overview of the Great Depression
                               Better understand the context of the period in
                               which the novel is set from this non-fiction
                               article.
Chapter Six: From Slaves to Sharecroppers
                            Better understand the racial climate of the time and
                            Mr. Radley's language and assumptions.
Chapter Twelve: Learning to Read
                              Better understand the significance of Calpurnia's  
                              literacy and how education and race influence the
                              social structure of Maycomb.
Chapter 18 - The Scottsboro Boys
                              Examine a real-life trial like the Tom Robinson
                              trial. How does To Kill a Mockingbird compare to
​                              the events surrounding the Scottsboro Boys?


Grammar Pages

Lesson 1 Parts of Speech
Lesson 2 Proofreading
Lesson 4 Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Lesson 5 Complements
Lesson 9 Figurative Language
Lesson 11 Imagery

Paired Readings

PRIMARY SOURCES: "The Ideal Little Girl," Part 1
NON-FICTION ARTICLE: "The Southern Lady and Belle"
NON-FICTION ARTICLE: "Southern Honor: An Introduction
NON-FICTION ARTICLE: "The Pride and Power of the Southern               
                                                              Gentleman's Code of Honor"
NON-FICTION ARTICLE:  "The Ideal Little Girl," Part 2
PRIMARY SOURCES (with intro): The Southern Gentleman
NON-FICTION ARTICLE: "The Redneck Stereotype"
FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT: "You Worked Long Hours"
INTERVIEW: "Growing up Black in the 1930s in McCulley's..."
POEM: "The Mask" by Maya Angelou
POEM: "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
NON-FICTION ARTICLE: "The Scottsboro Affair"
ESSAY: "Christmas to Me" by Harper Lee
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: "Harper Lee Twits School Board..."

Video Study Guide

Introduction
Characters
Themes
Plot Summary
Top 10 Questions

About the Author

Harper Lee Biography
Nineteen Things You Never Knew about Harper Lee
Twelve (more) things You didn't Know About Harper Lee
Harper Lee's Only Radio Interview about Mockingbird
CBS Sunday Morning Passages: An Appreciation of Nelle Harper Lee

Crash Course Video