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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird. Web-Quest : Harper Lee, Conspiracy Theories, and Censorship. Ms. Wellmeyer Revised 10/2011. Instructions for web-quest. Copy and paste the links from the slide into a web browser (Explorer, Safari, etc ) Read the articles on the web page

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird Web-Quest: Harper Lee, Conspiracy Theories, and Censorship Ms. Wellmeyer Revised 10/2011

  2. Instructions for web-quest • Copy and paste the links from the slide into a web browser (Explorer, Safari, etc) • Read the articles on the web page • Answer the questions on the white slides directly onto the slide. You may type in your own responses or copy and paste from the websites. • Save your PowerPoint to the desktop • When you are finished, turn in this PowerPoint via dropbox. Instructions on how to do this will be provided.

  3. Your name: Period:

  4. Read the article and answer the questions on the following slide Go to http://www.neabigread.org/books/mockingbird/readers02.php

  5. How many plots are in this novel? What does the first plot revolve around? The second? What are two of the broad themes of To Kill a Mockingbird What line from the book ties the two stories together?

  6. Read the article and answer the questions on the following slide Go to http://tokillamockingbird.com

  7. What town is Maycomb County based on?

  8. Go to http://www.neabigread.org/books/mockingbird/mockingbird03.php Read the article and answer the questions on the following 2 slides

  9. 7. List an important event that occurred in the 1930s. 1940s 1950s Early 1960s Mid 1960s

  10. 12. How many novels did Harper Lee write during her lifetime? List 5 things you learned in the section, “Historical Context: The Jim Crow South.”

  11. Read the article and answer the questions on the following 2 slides Go to http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/SG/SG5.html#author

  12. What were the Scottsboro Trials? Copy down the chart that shows the similarities between the Tom Robinson trial in To Kill a Mockingbird.

  13. 16. Copy down the chart that shows the similarities between Scout Finch and Harper Lee.

  14. Scroll down to the section titled, “The Friendship of Harper Lee and Truman Capote” Answer the following questions on the next slide Go to http://www.neabigread.org/books/mockingbird/mockingbird04.php

  15. What was Capote and Lee’s friendship like early on? Later in life after they had both become successful authors? 19. What rumor did Capote do little to disprove?

  16. Read the transcript and answer the following questions on the next slide Go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5244492

  17. What new evidence put an end to the rumor that To Kill a Mockingbird was actually written by Truman Capote? How did Truman Capote react to Harper Lee’s success?

  18. Go to the website: http://gilc.org/speech/osistudy/censorship/

  19. 22. What is the definition of censorship?

  20. Go to the website: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924691,00.html Read the essay on censorship.

  21. 23. List 5 things you didn’t know before about censorship and books being banned in schools.

  22. To turn in this assignment: • Save to the desktop. • Follow instructions on how to send this project via dropbox.

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