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This amazing TED Talk follows the same themes as To Kill a Mockingbird.

This chart assists students with planning and preparation for their high school careers to help students gather information about careers, cost, and goal setting.

This supplemental material will educate students on the Scottsboro case and how it inspired Lee to write To Kill a Mockingbird.

While reading To Kill a Mockingbird, this WebQuest will assist students in understanding the case of Emmett Till as well as why this is an important memory to Harper Lee and inspired her writing of the novel. Students will be seeing the graphic images that were shown during the time.

While reading To Kill a Mockingbird, this anthem is a supplemental piece.

After the mob scene, students will be analyzing the effects of mob mentality in various situations with application to other events, situations, and the Broadway play.

This quick webquest helps students understand the history of mental illness and how it was treated in the 1930s, assisting with their understanding of Boo Radley.

A great selection of projects to culminate the end of the novel.

After reading about Tom Robinson's case, students complete a research paper analyzing the injustices in the current justice system.

After reading To Kill a Mockingbird, students will complete a newspaper to cover the events of the novel. It's a great way to review that is unique and applies various layout and design practice.

After the mob scene, students will be analyzing the effects of mob mentality in various situations.

While reading To Kill a Mockingbird, look at Langston Hughes' Scottsboro Limited poem to compare historical events to the novel.

Students use the selected evidence to decide which is correct in this court case- Ewell or Robinson. It's a great activity to use at the beginning of the unit so students can read to novel to see if they were correct in their first analysis.

Using various sources including Dr. Suess' Sneetches, students learn Otherness and apply it to To Kill a Mockingbird

Langston Hughes's Let America Be America Again with analysis questions. A great addition to a Harlem Renaissance Poetry Unit.

Langston Hughes's Refugee in America with analysis questions. A great addition to a Harlem Renaissance Poetry Unit.

Langston Hughes's Mother to Son with analysis questions. A great addition to a Harlem Renaissance Poetry Unit.

This activity focuses on pieces of Kozol's book, Savage Inequalities as well as current sources to define the inequities in public education today.

This Webquest directs students to various resources to discover the inequities in education caused by poverty.

After reading or watching A Raisin in the Sun, students should compare characters to each situation suggested in the poem- which characters explode, dry up, or fester?