English 10-2 Ms. Culliton

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Study Aides | The Author | Historical Connections | Themes and Issues | The Film

 

Study Aides

Ms. Culliton's Study Guide Questions

Ms. Culliton's Vocabulary List

Ms. Culliton's Vocabulary Exercises

(all on one page; if you lose one sheet and need a copy, copy the text of it from the web page, paste it into a word-processing document, format it, and then print it out)
 

Answer Key to Study Guide Questions (as far as we've gotten in class)

The To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide

Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird: A Research Guide for Students

Internet Teaching Guide

Web Quest

 

 

Historical Connections

Issues Now and Then | 1930s | Depression | Hate Crimes | Holocaust | Civil Rights

 

Timeline of U.S. History

 

Themes & Issues in the novel

and in the U.S. Today

 

Notes on Literature and Miscegination

 

Discrimination and Schools

Imagine Students' Forum

Human Rights Watch: Hatred in the Hallways

Little Rock Nine

Religious Discrimination in Schools

 

Religious Extremism

Mission America

Radical Religious Right Groups

With God on Our Side

American Family Association

Focus on the Family

Concerned Women for America

 

 

Groups Fighting Bigotry and Religious Extremism Today

Freedom Forum

Anti-Defamation League

Interfaith Alliance

People for the American Way

Southern Poverty Law Center

Teaching Tolerance

Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.)

Human Rights Watch: Hatred in the Hallways

 

Study Aides | The Author | Historical Connections | Themes and Issues | The Film

 

Hate Crimes and Lynching, Past and Present

FBI Hate Crimes Reports

CivilRights.Org Hate Crimes site

Definition of "Lynching"

Healing From Hate Crimes

The murder of James Byrd, Jr.: Racial violence and the social forces in America that fuel it

Anti-Hate Crimes Laws

Ku Klux Klan History

 

The Civil Rights Movement of the '50s and '60s
Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.)

Civil Rights Chronology

Les Bayless, Three who gave their lives: Remembering the martyrs of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

Little Rock Nine

 

Study Aides | The Author | Historical Connections | Themes and Issues | The Film

 

 

The 1930s

To Kill a Mockingbird Then and Now

Historical Archives for To Kill a Mockingbird

Scottsboro Boys Case

Site to figure out how 1930s $ value compares to today

Middle-class life in the '30s

Prices Then and Now

Legal and Racial Issues

 

Anti-Semitism

The Lynching of Leo Frank

Between the Wars: Father Charles Coughlin

Father Charles Coughlin

"Somebody Must be Blamed": Father Coughlin Speaks to the Nation

New Deal Network

 

 

The Great Depression

Photos of the Era

Guide to "Documenting the Face of America"

Aspects of Depression Life

Riding the Rails (from PBS)

America in the 1930s

 

 

 

Study Aides | The Author | Historical Connections | Themes and Issues | The Film | Writings about the Novel

 

 

Hitler and The Holocaust

The Rise of Hitler

Nizkor: a Holocaust Remembrance

The Holocaust/Shoah Page

The Holocaust--A Guide for Teachers

Holocaust: Cybrary of the Holocaust

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Book: The Other Victims

Roma (Gypsy) Victims of the Holocaust

Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture

Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals

NY Times Article

 

 

 

Study Aides | The Author | Historical Connections | Themes and Issues | The Film |

 

The Author and the Book

Recent Article on Lee

Harper Lee

Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird

Biographical Info.

Short Biography

Short Article

I-Search Paper on Censorship

A 1966 case of censorship

 

The Inspiration for Dill?

Teen Reads Page on Truman Capote

PBS American Masters: Truman Capote

The Author & Truman Capote

Biographical info. on Capote

Brief Biographical Sketch

Photograph

Photo and Works

 

The Film

The Film To Kill a Mockingbird

Media Literacy Guide