To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide by Andrew Clausen

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom, #6 on Big Read List (UK's top 200), #1 TIME All-Time best 100 English Language Novels 1923-2005, Brotherhood Award National Conference of Christians and Jews, Paperback of Year Bestsellers magazine. Through Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning story, To Kill a Mockingbird, students will learn: Author Biography: Learn about Harper Lee. Historical Background: Learn the background behind the civil rights movement and equal rights. Before-You-Read Activities: Written or oral reports on American Civil War, Slavery, or Civil Rights movement, study the U.S. Constitution, Jim Crow laws, listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. and write a response. Vocabulary words used throughout the novel, utilizing a variety of activities to stimulate retention and growth. Literary Techniques: In context, synonym, setting, characterization, point of view, exposition, foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, extended metaphor, foil, irony, dynamic and static characters, theme, motif. Moral Lessons and Character Values: Point of view, superstition, rumor, private and public life being the same, pride, reaction to insults, courage, unity, division, justice, discrimination, racial injustice, hypocrisy. Read more