TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Harper Lee

• Born in 1926• First published work,

TKAM in 1960• Pulitzer Prize for

fiction in 1961• Film in 1962

How many copies? To Kill a Mockingbird has sold well in excess of 30 million since itspublication in 1960, and a million alone in the US in 2001.

Theme

• Prejudice is responsible for much social injustice.

• People often fear what they don’t understand.

More themes

• Courage, is doing what you think is right, when the odds of succeeding are against you.

• Education is not limited to the classroom, but is an important part of a person’s everyday life.

Author- Narrator

• Harper Lee• Grew up in rural small• Southern Alabama town• Father: Amasa Lee• Served in the state leg.• Older brother-• Truman Capote• Avid reader

• Scout Finch• Grew up 1930s, southern

Alabama town

• Atticus Finch: attorney, state leg.

• Jem and Dill

• Reads before she enters school

It’s Influence:

• This is director Cameron Crowe 's favorite film. The movie Almost Famous begins with the protagonist and his mother coming out of a movie theatre showing To Kill a Mockingbird ;Vanilla Sky actually shows a clip of the movie, with Atticus and Scout as remembered by the lead character, David Aames.

Motif

• Definition: a small running theme throughout the novel

Motif

• A sin to kill a mockingbird

• Walk in someone’s shoes

Figurative Language

• Ladies were like soft teacakes with frosting of sweat and sweet talcum.

• The Radley place…drew Dill as the moon draws water.

• Smoke was rolling off our house, like fog off a riverbank.

Metaphors

• I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

• ..tinfoil…winking at me in the afternoon sun.

• Time had slowed to a nauseating crawl.

Irony/Hyperbole

• No tutorial system divided by man could have stopped him from getting at books.

• “For a while” in Maycomb meant anything from 3-30 years.

Historical Events

• Civil War 1861-1865

• Reconstruction Amendments:

• 13th slavery abolished 1865

• 14th citizenship defined 1868

• 15th Suffrage 1870

Supreme Court Cases

• Plessy v. Ferguson 1896• separate but equal is equal

• Brown v Board of Education 1954• separate but equal facilities are inherently

unequal

Civil Rights Act 1964

Symbolism of the Names

• Finch - Small bird, loud song

• Dill - Spice, catalyst

• Charles Baker Harris - small bird flits around

Chapter 8

• 5. What unusual occurrance happens to cause school to close?

• 6. Snowman…Atticus objects because it looks like who?

• 7. Miss Maudie’s house burns down, why isn’t she upset?

Social Ladder

• Segregated Communities

• Professionals

• Business

• Labor

• Poor whites / blacks

Essay

• Education is not limited to the classroom, but is an important part of a person’s everyday life.

• Write your thoughts about the subject.

• Do not use “to be” verbs.

New Essay

• Correct the marked mistakes on your essay. Change to be verbs, phrases and the word, things.

• Add another paragraph about the novel. What does Scout learn outside the classroom.

Vocabulary chapters 1-3

• 1. Visit; stopover

• 2. Hazy: vague

• 3. Illegally

• 4. Being; person

• 1. Sojourn

• 2. Nebulous

• 3. Illicitly

• entity

More vocab

• 5. Scornful

• 6. Soothed relieved

• 7. Religious devotion

• 5. Contemptuous

• 6. Assuaged

• 7. piety

Even more vocab

• 8. Quarrelsome

• 9. Persist

• 10. dull

• 8. Contenious

• 9. Persevere

• 10. vapid

 

 

Fourth most taught piece of literature behind Romeo and Juliet,

MacBeth,

and Huckleberry Finn.

Trivia

• British Band, The Boo Radleys

• Demi Moore/Bruce Willis named their daughter, Scout, after the book’s character

• Jake Gyllenhaal named his dogs “Atticus” and “Boo Radley”

• American film institute named Atticus Finch the greatest hero of the 20th century.

It’s Influence:

• This is director Cameron Crowe 's favorite film. The movie Almost Famous begins with the protagonist and his mother coming out of a movie theatre showing To Kill a Mockingbird ;Vanilla Sky actually shows a clip of the movie, with Atticus and Scout as remembered by the lead character, David Aames.

Atticus Communications

In Search of Atticus Finch

@tikus

The Atticus Finch American Inn of CourtAtticus Finch.

The Naming of the Parts

Original and 35th Anniversary Edition

Reprint version, 1967

Back cover with the words,“World Sale Over 7 Million

Copies”

Reader’s DigestCondensed Version, Summer

1960

Toronto Version, 1965

Movie tie-in Version, 1962Sold for 60 cents

Web sites

TKAM: A Student Survival Guide.

TKAM: Then and Now

TKAM: A Homework On-line Study Guide

Use context clues to guess the meaning of the word.

• Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn...(p. 42).”

• "Jem gaped at him (p. 49)."

Answer

• tacit (adj.) An agreement, or, in this case, a "treaty" that is tacit is one that has been silently agreed upon. Thus, the children know that they can play on Miss Maudie's front lawn even though she never directly told them that it was all right to do so.

Answer

• gaped (vb.): To gape at someone is to stare at that person with your mouth open. See a rather extreme example of gaping.

An example of gaping

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Questions

1. Who is narrator of the story?

2. What is Calpurnia’s relationship to the Finch family?

3. / 4. Name two details the children think they know about Boo Radley?

More Questions

• 6. Why won’t the children eat the pecans that fall into the school yard?

• 7. What was one item the children find in the tree?

8. Name one punishment Scout had to endure on her first day of school.

Chapter 5

• 9. Children want to send a note to Boo, how do they plan to get it there?

10. What was Dill’s job in this adventure?

Bonus: What came out of Burris Ewell’s hair?

Photo questions

• This is Scout the bully holding which of her schoolmates to the ground?

• Bonus: How does Jem try to make this right?

Chapter 6

• 3. How do the children plan to spend Dill’s last night in Maycomb?

• 4. How do you get a fence to stop squeaking?

• 5. What makes Jem decide to return to the Radley house?

Irony/Hyperbole

• No tutorial system divided by man could have stopped him from getting at books.

• “For a while” in Maycomb meant anything from 3-30 years.

Symbols

• Finch - small bird

• Jem - gem

• Dill - catalyst; spice/herb spices up the life for Scout and Jem

Symbol

• Charles Baker Harris - Harris is a small bird that flits from place to place

• Robert E. Lee Ewell - ( irony) Bob Ewell not a southern gentleman, not respected

Symbols

• Link Deas - first name is Lincoln. Link between white and African American community

• Mrs. Gates - Scout’s third grade teacher• swings/hypocrite

Symbols

• Mr. Underwood - newspaper man - typewriter

• Scout - one who moves ahead to inform

• Boo - scary legend/ more than one way to make a person into a ghost.

Bell work

• What is your impression of the trial so far?

Chapter 17

• Heck Tate’s testimony

• Bob Ewell’s testimony

• Contrast the Ewell house and the African American community

Chapter 17

• Heck Tate and Mr. Ewell:

• Why should a doctor have been called?

• Why is the position of the injuries important?

Trial timeline

• Track the evidence according to different witnesses:

• Tate:

• Ewell:

• Mayella:

• Tom:

Chapter 17 Q’s

• 1. Who was the first witness?

• 2. What did Atticus ask Heck Tate in cross-X?

• 3. Where are the children sitting?

• 4. What did Atticus ask Ewell to write?

Chapter 18

• Who was Mayella afraid of?

• Why did Mayella ask Tom inside the fence?

• What is Tom’s physical impairment?

Chapter 9

• What did the children get for Christmas?

• What is Scout doing that Uncle Jack object to and Atticus is waiting out?

• Name one detail about Francis.

 

 

Fourth most taught piece of literature behind Romeo and Juliet,

MacBeth,

and Huckleberry Finn.

Trivia

• British Band, The Boo Radleys

• Demi Moore/Bruce Willis named their daughter, Scout, after the book’s character

• Jake Gyllenhaal named his dogs “Atticus” and “Boo Radley”

• American film institute named Atticus Finch the greatest hero of the 20th century.

It’s Influence:

• This is director Cameron Crowe 's favorite film. The movie Almost Famous begins with the protagonist and his mother coming out of a movie theatre showing To Kill a Mockingbird ;Vanilla Sky actually shows a clip of the movie, with Atticus and Scout as remembered by the lead character, David Aames.

Atticus Communications

In Search of Atticus Finch

@tikus

The Atticus Finch American Inn of CourtAtticus Finch.

The Naming of the Parts

Original and 35th Anniversary Edition

Reprint version, 1967

Back cover with the words,“World Sale Over 7 Million

Copies”

Reader’s DigestCondensed Version, Summer

1960

Toronto Version, 1965

Movie tie-in Version, 1962Sold for 60 cents

Web sites

TKAM: A Student Survival Guide.

TKAM: Then and Now

TKAM: A Homework On-line Study Guide

Courage

• Courage is doing what you think is right when the odds of succeeding are against you.

Chapter 11

• What does Jem do to show his anger toward Mrs. Dubose?

What is his punishment? Describe the scene.What lesson does Atticus hope Jem learns

from the experience?What does Mrs. Dubose send Jem and why

does he get mad?

Chapter 10Mad Dog

• Jem sees the dog• Tim Johnson• Cal calls Mr. Finch• Atticus and the Sheri

show up

Events of Chapter 10Mad Dog

• Tim Johnson

• Cal 1st to Recognize

• Neighbors Behind closed doors

• Sheriff hands the gun to Atticus

• Tom Robinson

• Seen before/knows the potential danger

• Not involved, but interested

• Law expected to protect

Prejudice

• Atticus is reluctant, but accepts

• “usual disease”

• “dangerous dead or alive”

• Zeebo cleans up

• Strong sense of responsibility

• Seems like a safe place

• Always a threat

• Duty

New word

• Atticus is reluctant, but accepts

• “usual disease”

• “dangerous dead or alive”

• Zeebo cleans up

• Strong sense of responsibility

• Seems like a safe place

• Always a threat

• Duty

ALLEGORY

• A form of extended metaphor , in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Bellwork

• Atticus was feeble; he was nearly fifty (chapter 10)

• feeble (adj.): weak; frail

Chapter 6 & 7

• 1. How does Dill explain Jem’s missing pants?

• 2. What is the secret about the pants that Jem doesn’t tell Scout that night?

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More questions

• 3. When the children plan to send a letter to the person who leaves the gifts, they are prevented. How does it happen?

4. Why does Jem cry about this?

Who is this?

• 5. Died of natural causes.• 6. The most boring child I had

ever met.• 7. Seemed to care more about

her flowers than her house?

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And more….

• 8. Whose arrival was one of the good parts about Christmas?

• 9. What is Atticus’ brother’s occupation?

• 10. How do you get a gate to stop squeaking?

How many copies? To Kill a Mockingbird has sold well in excess of 30 million since itspublication in 1960, and a million alone in the US in 2001.

Harper Lee

• Born in 1926• First published work,

TKAM in 1960• Pulitzer Prize for

fiction in 1961• Film in 1962

 

 

Fourth most taught piece of literature behind Romeo and Juliet,

MacBeth,

and Huckleberry Finn.

Trivia

• British Band, The Boo Radleys

• Demi Moore/Bruce Willis named their daughter, Scout, after the book’s character

• Jake Gyllenhaal named his dogs “Atticus” and “Boo Radley”

• American film institute named Atticus Finch the greatest hero of the 20th century.

Chapter 8

3. Why does Scout think the world is ending?

5. Scout was so busy looking at the fire she didn’t notice……

Atticus Communications

In Search of Atticus Finch

@tikus

The Atticus Finch American Inn of CourtAtticus Finch.

The Naming of the Parts

Original and 35th Anniversary Edition

Reprint version, 1967

Back cover with the words,“World Sale Over 7 Million

Copies”

Reader’s DigestCondensed Version, Summer

1960

Toronto Version, 1965

Movie tie-in Version, 1962Sold for 60 cents

Web sites

TKAM: A Student Survival Guide.

TKAM: Then and Now

TKAM: A Homework On-line Study Guide

Author- Narrator

• Harper Lee• Grew up in rural small• Southern Alabama town• Father: Amasa Lee• Served in the state leg.• Older brother-• Truman Capote• Avid reader

• Scout Finch• Grew up 1930s, southern

Alabama town

• Atticus Finch: attorney, state leg.

• Jem and Dill

• Reads before she enters school

Bellwork

• Plot chart of chapter 28 -29

• Begin with Halloween pageant.

• “Thus began our longest journey together.”

Questions

• The narrator of the story is?

• What is Calpurnia’s relationship to the Finch family?

• Name two details the children think they know about Boo Radley?

More questions

1st day if school:

Scout is unusual for a 1st grader because…

Name one fact we learn about Walter Cunningham and his family.

What is it about Burris Ewell that made Mis Caroline scream?

Photo questions

• This is Scout the bully holding which of her schoolmates to the ground?

• Bonus: How does Jem try to make this right?