ASSIGNMENT DUE TOMORROW!

To Kill a MockingbirdBackground Information

To Kill a Mockingbird

Assignment due tomorrow!Lions: Research the history of the Great

Depression (www.library.arkansas.gov/travelerEBCO)

Pull out the most important information i.e., When did the Great Depression occur? What happened to cause the Great Depression? Where did it originate? Did it affect other

countries in the world? How bad was unemployment during this time? What brought the Depression to an end?

To Kill a Mockingbird

Assignment due tomorrow!Tigers: Research biographical information

on the life and times of Harper Lee. (www.google.com) Google “Harper Lee” and follow the links Pull out the most important information i.e.,

When did she live? (Is she still alive?) Where did she grow up and how did that affect her

writing? Which character in TKAM is said to be most like Lee?

Why?

To Kill a Mockingbird

Assignment due tomorrow!Bears: Research the history racism in

the South in the 1930s (http://www.tvhs.k12.vt.us/WMHS/Faculty/Kurucz/html/eng9/TKAM/Bird1.htm)

Pull out the most important information i.e., What was it like to grow up white in the 1930s What was it like to grow up black in the 1930s What were Jim Crow laws? Give two examples