Read one of the articles below and construct your response in agreement or disagreement with the reasoning given for why To Kill a Mockingbird is a treasured reading experience. Be sure to explain whose commentary you are responding to and give specific textual evidence from the book in your response.
Article one
Article Two
Article Three
Article Four
LANGUAGE in To Kill a Mockingbird:
(This will be covered with in-class writings and discussions.)
LINKING To Kill a Mockingbird to today:
Read one of the following articles and then respond to the ideas set forth. Be sure to explain which article you are responding to and give specific textual evidence from the book in your response.
Article One
Article Two
Article Three
Article Four
LEARNING more about context in To Kill a Mockingbird:
You have been assigned ONE speech from below, all given during the setting time period of the novel. READ and analyze your assigned speech for meaning and purpose, and rhetorical techniques being used by this author to achieve purpose. At the end of reading, write a paragraph explanation for how this speech relates to the novel.
A. Speech by Mary McLeod Bethune, "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?"
, America's Town Meeting of the Air, New York City - November 23, 1939
C.
Speech by FDR, First
Inaugural Address. (1933)
E.
Campaign Speech by FDR, "The
Forgotten Man" (1932)
F. Speech by Winston Churchill, "The Defence of Freedom and Peace" (The Lights are Going Out) (broadcast to the United
States and Britain on 10/16/1938)
Then, as an in-class assignment, in a group with others who read the same speech, craft a total of 10 AP-style multiple choice questions to go along with this speech. Look back at the multiple choice test question examples provided earlier in the year for reference in the wording and creation of these questions. Provide an annotated answer key (with explanation for which are the correct answers and why) with your final copy of the questions.
