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 Author Learn about Harper Lee. Historical Learn the background behind the civil rights movement and equal rights. Before-You-Read 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 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 Point of view, superstition, rumor, private and public life being the same, pride, reaction to insults, courage, unity, division, justice, discrimination, racial injustice, hypocrisy. Activities and Writing Assignments including five choices of comparison essays, race relations, and equality. Suggestions for Further We include an in-depth reading list of more books by the same author and other books that tie in with, or are similar to, To Kill a Mockingbird .
All of the unit lessons are written from a Christian worldview!