To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Enduring Understandings
- Literature reflects how different races, classes, ethnicities, and minorities have been frequently mistreated throughout history.
- Social standing contributes to one's identity and one’s perceived identity.
- Literature reflects the separation of social classes at different times in history.
- Authors frequently use the written word to promote social change and to further their beliefs about politics, government, and society through the use of allegories and metaphors.
Books
In Destiny, we have a Resource List for all things TKM related with over 50 resources.
Books on Harper Lee: 813 LEE I Am Scout by Charles Shields 813 LEE Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Help for Students: 813 SCH Reading and Interpreting the Works of Harper Lee by Elizabeth Schermermund We also have a Resource List for the 1930s with over 50 titles. |
Key Figures of the 1930s South
Use Biography in Context to research their lives (and we have books in the library)
Scottsboro Boys
Walker Evans and Farm Security Bureau Photos Herbert Hoover Dorothea Lange Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Key Events or Organizations of the 1930s
Use US History In Context (and we have books in the library)
1929 Stock Market Crash
Black women as domestic servants Child Labor Code-switching Dust Bowl Eugenics movement Fireside Chats Gender Roles--Southern Lady, Southern Gentleman Great Depression Jim Crow Laws and Segregation KKK Lynching and Mob Violence Music of the Great Depression (big bands, jazz, blues) New Deal Radio Shows (Amos N Andy) Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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Websites
Code-switching
https://www.britannica.com/topic/code-switching
Eugenics movement
https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/america-s-hidden-history-the-eugenics-movement-123919444
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/origins-eugenics
Walker Evans and Farm Security Bureau
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/docchap4.html
Herbert Hoover
https://hoover.archives.gov/hoovers
Dorothea Lange
www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/bios/dorothea-lange/
www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/
www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/origins-lynching-culture-united-states (you will need Ms. Schmidt's username and password for this)
https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/?q=mob+violencewww.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/?q=mob+violence
Harper Lee
www.monroecountymuseum.org/
Letter to Oprah
Jim Crow Laws
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/understanding-jim-crow-setting-setting (you will need Ms. Schmidt's username and password for this)
www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/index.htm
www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Southern Lady/Southern Gentleman
https://www.tumwater.k12.wa.us/cms/lib/WA01001561/Centricity/Domain/1106/1930s%20Girls%20and%20Expectations.pdf
https://www.silive.com/relationships/index.ssf/2012/02/an_etiquette_guide_from_1936_shows_just_how_much_things_have_changed.html
Scottsboro Boys
www.scottsboro-multicultural.com/
https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/scottsboro-american-tragedy (you will need Ms. Schmidt's username and password for this)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/code-switching
Eugenics movement
https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/america-s-hidden-history-the-eugenics-movement-123919444
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/origins-eugenics
Walker Evans and Farm Security Bureau
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/docchap4.html
Herbert Hoover
https://hoover.archives.gov/hoovers
Dorothea Lange
www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/bios/dorothea-lange/
www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/
www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
- Fireside Chats
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/origins-lynching-culture-united-states (you will need Ms. Schmidt's username and password for this)
https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/?q=mob+violencewww.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/?q=mob+violence
Harper Lee
www.monroecountymuseum.org/
Letter to Oprah
Jim Crow Laws
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/understanding-jim-crow-setting-setting (you will need Ms. Schmidt's username and password for this)
www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/index.htm
www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Southern Lady/Southern Gentleman
https://www.tumwater.k12.wa.us/cms/lib/WA01001561/Centricity/Domain/1106/1930s%20Girls%20and%20Expectations.pdf
https://www.silive.com/relationships/index.ssf/2012/02/an_etiquette_guide_from_1936_shows_just_how_much_things_have_changed.html
Scottsboro Boys
www.scottsboro-multicultural.com/
https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/scottsboro-american-tragedy (you will need Ms. Schmidt's username and password for this)
Students will
- Compare, analyze, and critique the portrayal and treatment of different classes, ethnicities, and other cultural or marginalized groups during different time periods.
- Analyze the ways in which marginalized characters are treated and the author’s purpose in showing that portrayal.
- Analyze how literature reflects commonly held views of the population during a specific period in time.
- Identify different stereotypes of characters repeated throughout literature.
- Analyze and write a cohesive, well organized, analytical essay exploring how racism and prejudice play a critical role in the text.
- Identify and incorporate text support in order to enrich one’s argument and thesis.
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