To Kill a Mockingbird

Your objective test is this Tuesday and the essay portion will be this Wednesday. Please be familiar with TKAM, the Scottsboro Trial, "Strange Fruit," and "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught."

If you are on a class trip later in the week, be sure to read Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker."

Week of October 4, 2010

The objectives for the first part of this week are as follows:

 analyze moral dilemmas as revealed by a character’s motivation, words, and behavior;
 identify and analyze recurring themes across literary works;
 analyze how an author’s words create tone and mood, and how those words advance the novel’s themes; and
 identify and evaluate figurative language used in the text.

The homework includes reading through chapter 8 this Monday, reading through chapter 9 and starting the vocabulary packet this Tuesday, and finishing Part I of the novel this Wednesday.

Listed below are some of the links that we will use to study topics that are related the text:

Websites: http://academic.udayton.edu/Race/02rights/jcrow02.htm
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_narratives.html
http://www.exodusnews.com/HISTORY/History007.htm
http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/omaha%20riot.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/2986/index.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6106285
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/who.htm