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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. WHRHS English 9. How many of you had heard of To Kill A Mockingbird Before this class?. How about Atticus Finch?. How about Scout?. What is the basic storyline? Do you know?.

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee WHRHS English 9

  2. How many of you had heard of To Kill A MockingbirdBefore 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. Maycomb County, Alabama Monroeville, Alabama Book Vs. Real Life

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

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