1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
WHRHS English 9

2. How many of you had heard of To Kill A Mockingbird Before this class?

3. How about Atticus Finch?

4. How about Scout?

5. What is the basic storyline? Do you know?

6. TKM is a story that is based on the childhood of the author, Nelle Harper Lee

7. There is a backstory to this Novel…

8. Before this class, Had you ever heard of the Scottsboro Trials?

9. The Scottsboro Trials took place in Scottsboro, Alabama

10. Where does TKM take Place?
Maycomb County, Alabama.

11. Book Vs. Real Life
Maycomb County, Alabama
Monroeville, Alabama

12. Book Vs. Real Life
SCOTTSBORO
MONROEVILLE IS HERE ->

13. The Scottsboro Trials began on March 25, 1931
The Book is set during the same time, during the Great Depression

14. Nine Black Teenage boys were riding the rails
They got into a fight with a group of white boys.

15. The black boys throw the white boys off the train.
News gets back to town about the fight

16. At the next stop – Scottsboro – a posse forms waiting for the train.
As they remove the boys – who are all in different cars – they come across two girls.

17. The girls, presumably to avoid charges of Vagrancy (homelessness), accuse the black boys of rape.

18. These are the scottsboro Boys
The Oldest is 19
The Youngest is 13

19. By April 9, 1931 – Less than a month later – eight of the boys were tried, convicted and sentenced to death. The ninth, 13-Year-Old Roy Wright, ends in a hung Jury when 11 vote for death and 1 vote for life imprisonment

20. Clarence Norris
Charlie Weems
Haywood Patterson
Olen Montgomery
Ozie Powell
Willie Roberson
Eugene Williams
Andy Wright
Roy Wright

21. Real Life vs. Book
Harper Lee was six years old during the Scottsboro Trials.
Scout is six years old during Tom Robinson’s Trial.