1. To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee

2. What is the setting of the book?

3. People were poor . . .
Jobs were scarce

5. A drought in the South led to dust storms that destroyed crops.
“The Dust Bowl”

7. And then there was Hoover
President during the Crash
A whole new vocabulary was created to describe programs started by this president
“Hooverisms”

8. Hooverville
The little towns of ramshackle tin houses and lean-tos that grew up around the country after the Crash

9. Hoover Blankets
The only thing many people could find with which to cover themselves

10. Hoover Cars
There was no money for gas, so . . .

11. Jim Crow Laws segregation
From the 1880s to the 1960s, many states used “Jim Crow” laws to enforce segregation. Public businesses and institutions were not allowed to let their black and white patrons intermingle.
segregation

12. Schools were also segregated

13. In Alabama, buses had to have different waiting rooms as well as separate ticket windows
Theater customers were directed to separate seating for whites and blacks

14. and in Alabama where our story is told:
No Caucasian nurses were allowed to do their jobs in wards or rooms in hospitals where black men were placed
It was unlawful for a black person and a white to play together in a game of billiards (pool)
All toilet facilities were separate
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15. Scottsboro Boys Trial
9 young African-American men (13-20) accused of raping 2 white girls in 1931
Immediately sentenced to death
Trials went on for nearly 15 years before all the men were dismissed

16. Civil Rights Movement P

17. This story is about a girl in Alabama
and her brother
about courage
and cowardice
Justice and prejudice

18. and about her father, a man named Atticus

19. Who believed in justice . . .
for all men
even when his family was threatened

20. Then there’s the mockingbird,
but you will have to figure that out as you read.

21. About Harper Lee, the author
Won Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for To Kill a Mockingbird
Born in Monroeville, Alabama-also Truman Capote’s town
Received her degree from the University of Alabama in 1945
Did not publish a successful book after this one
Many details of this book are autobiographical
Her father was an attorney
Maycomb is very much like her hometown
Her story parallels Scout’s

22. The character of “Dill,” Scout and Jem’s playmate in the novel was based upon Lee’s actual neighbor, Truman Capote
Capote is famous for amongst other things, In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
It has been said that he gave Lee Mockingbird as a gift.

23. To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: historical novel, Southern drama
Published in more than 40 languages
Themes: are people essentially good or evil, the existence of social inequality, and the importance of moral education
Point of View: told from Scout’s view looking back as an adult, first person

24. Summative Assessment
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