Use the links provided to answer the questions below on your
own sheet of paper.
Harper Lee, author
of “To Kill A Mockingbird”
1. What are 3
similarities between Harper & the character in the novel, Scout?
2. What did Lee’s
father do for a living?
3. Where was Harper
from? What year did she write the novel To
Kill A Mockingbird?
4. What are 3
interesting characteristics about Harper Lee?
New World Encyclopedia: “Harper Lee” …Look under the subtitle “Autobiographical
Elements”)
5. Harper Lee’s father was similar to the father in To Kill a Mockingbird in that he was a
small southern town’s lawyer. What was
Lee’s father’s most controversial case?
The Scottsboro
Boys
7. What was the inciting incident that lead to
the whole trial?
·
Wikipedia: “Scottsboro Boys”…Look only at the general synopsis at the
beginning of the article
8. What time period
did the Scottsboro boys’ trial take place?
9. What do you think
is the most disturbing part of the story?
10. What are some
over-arching issues this trial dealt with?
11. What practice did
the trial end in the South?
1930’s in the
South; The Great Depression:
·
Google
“The Great Depression in the South.” Go to the images and flip through them to
answer the questions below. Please read the questions before looking at
pictures.
12. What did all of
the pictures you viewed have in common? Why do you think this is?
13. Around what years
does it seem many of these pictures were taken?
14. What can you tell
about the Great Depression from the pictures?
15. Pick one picture.
Examine it. What do you notice about the background, the people, etc.?
·
Google “The
Great Depression in the North”. Look at a few of the images.
16. What is different
about the people in these photos & the ones you viewed about the South?
What is different about the background/setting?
Jim Crow Laws:
17. Who was “Jim
Crow”?
18. According to the
video, how did Jim Crow Laws begin?
19. In your opinion,
what was the purpose of the laws?
20. What would
eventually end the Jim Crow Laws?
·
Google
“list of Jjm Crow law examples by state.” Click on the first link. Pick two states, and read the list of laws
in that state.
21. What 2 states did
you choose?
22. What was the most
disturbing or strange law in that state? What year did it get put in?
23. What makes the
law so ridiculous?
The Civil Rights
Movement in Alabama
24. Why do you think
Alabama was the most racially harsh and strongly segregated? Why did Martin
Luther King Jr. feel the movement needed to go to Alabama?
25. What do you think
segregation stemmed from?
26. What happened in
Alabama that was widely televised & famous?
27. What happened because of it?
28. What words &/or phrases stick out to you in the
speech?
29. What
images/scenes stick out to you from the Alabama protest?
30. Write (with
number) a first and second choice from the following list to use as a topic for
your mini-research project.
1) The Great Depression’s affects on the
South
2) Southern traditions in literature
3) The Scottsboro Boy’s Trial
4) The rise of Jim Crow Laws
5) The ending of Jim Crow Laws
6) The Civil Right’s Movement in AL
7) Harper Lee’s life leading up to “TKM”
8) Changes made in Alabama after the Civil
Rights Movement 1963
9) Southern race relations in 1932 & 1961 1
10) Truman Capote & his relationship to
Lee
11) Horton Foote and the
film of To Kill a Mockingbird
12) Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement
13) Topics of interest for 1930’s America
14) Gender equality/lack of in AL in 1930’s/1960’s
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