1. Talk with your partner… Caste System = a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, if your parents are poor, you're going to be poor, too. Same goes for being rich.
Is Maycomb under a sort of caste system?
How are characters viewed based on the caste system?
How does someone’s caste label affect them?

2. India’s Caste System

3. Maycomb Hierarchy
Place the following “castes” in order you think they belong:
Cunningham
Finch
Ewell
Radley
Calpurnia and her church

4. Identify for each of the caste.

5. Where would your character stand?
Agree
Disagree

6. Where would your character stand?
People don’t change.
Agree
Disagree

7. Where would your character stand?
All men are created equal.
Agree
Disagree

8. Where would your character stand?
The strong are responsible for taking care of the weak, whether they want help or not.
Agree
Disagree

9. Where would your character stand?
You’ll never know a man until you walk in his shoes.
Agree
Disagree

10. Inquiry Question
How can we understand the author’s views on prejudice through an analysis of the “the caste system of Maycomb?”

11. Read Chapter 12-13 Search for the Hierarchy mentioned in the story.
Students will continue their post-it note connections.

12. What famous storyboard?

13. What famous storyboard?
Spiderman 2 with Doc Ock

14. Movie Storyboard
Each student will get a blank storyboard. If they were to be a director of a movie based upon To Kill A Mockingbird what would the shots look like in the scene they choose.
Students can choose any scene from to map out.

15. Closure- 3-2 -1 Post-it 3 Things I learned today
2 Questions I still have about TKAMB
1 Comment for the teacher