To Kill a Mockingbird -- WEB QUEST

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD -- WEB QUEST

In this classic novel, Scout narrates the story of her youth growing up in Maycomb, Alabama. The situations in this novel will make you laugh, gasp in disbelief, feel outraged, and even question your own society.

It is important for you to understand the life and time of the South during the 1930's. This was a time when racism and prejudice were prevalent; poverty was rampant due to the Great Depression; and children were not meant to be heard. Life was hard.

In order to show you these life and times, you are to follow the task and steps below.

TASK

To submit a Viewer's Literacy Guide answering questions while working through the web sites below.

DIRECTIONS
I. Using the selected Web sites, view and read about life in the South during the Great Depression.

The Viewer's Literacy Guide will direct you on what to view. http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dffxfkwr_28hfpxgdj5

1. Growing Up White during the 1930's -- http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html

2. Growing Up Black during the 1930's -- http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0730

3. Photographs Enforcing Racial Discrimination --http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html

4. Jim Crow Laws -- http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jimcrowlaw1/Jim_Crow_Laws.htm

5. Murder of Emmett Till -- http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html

6. FSA-OWA Photographs -- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

7. Photographs of Greensboro, Alabama -- mailto:SUBJ%2B@band(United%2BStates--Alabama--Greensboro%2B))%2B@FIELD(COLLID%2Bfsa))

8. Photographs of Selma, Alabama -- mailto:SUBJ%2B@band(United%2BStates--Alabama--Dallas%2BCounty--Selma%2B))%2B@FIELD(COLLID%2Bfsa))

9. Photographs of Eutaw, Alabama mailto:SUBJ%2B@band(United%2BStates--Alabama--Eutaw%2B))%2B@FIELD(COLLID%2Bfsa)

II. Follow the steps and complete the Viewer's Literacy Guide . Print out this guide, complete it, and submit it to me. The guide tells you what sites to look at and when. Please read each piece carefully.

Evaluations
Viewer's Literacy Guide -- make sure this is detailed and in complete sentences.

Conclusion
-- These activities were designed to help you:
-- to identify elements of living during the Great Depression
-- to determine what life was like in the South during the 1930's
-- to examine prejudice, stereotypes, and racism within society
-- to question our treatment of others

Cybrary

http://www.madison.k12.ky.us/co/oot/msa/Southern/TOKILL.htm

This site is an informational site for students reading and writing about TKAM. Watch out for some of the sections -- they are student responses and may not be completely accurate. Also some of the additional links to this link may not work.
http://www.elwood.k12.nf.ca/ThemLit_Theme%20Essays_01/memorable_quotes_from_to_kill_a_.htmThis site contains some memorable quotations from the novel.
http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=Unit&WCU=5300This site gives some general definitions of terms from the novel as well as links as to how they apply to the novel. It's important to click on the links at the bottom of most pages in order to find the needed information.
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/mockingbird/scripts.htmlThis site contains activities for scripts and storyboards. You might use it to locate pages of events in the novel for characters, setting, or themes.
http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/hs/eng/hurd/prereadi.htmThis site is general background information. Some of the links within the text work; some do not.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.htmlThis site accounts the Scottsboro trial, upon which the trial of Tom Robinson is based. Many comparisons can be made between the two.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.htmlThis site contains many links to the information on the American South; it is not TKAM specific, but you may enjoy it for background reading.
http://www.fsu.edu/~CandI/ENGLISH/webquests/mocking.htmAnother school site about the novel -- scroll to the Resources section, which contains a number of extension sites.
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19268_20778-52530--,00.htmlThis site lists prices for items during the Great Depression.

http://mockingbird.chebucto.org/bio.htmlThis site provides biography information of the novel's author, Harper Lee.