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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". What do you think? Do you agree or disagree?. All men are created equal. Girls should act like girls. It's okay to be different.

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"

  2. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree? • All men are created equal. • Girls should act like girls. • It's okay to be different. • Nobody is all bad or all good. • Some words are so offensive that they should never be stated or written. • Under our justice system, all citizens are treated fairly in our courts of law.

  3. Keep thinking.Agree or Disagree? 7.The old adage, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you," is true. 8. Speaking standard grammar proves that a person is smart. 9. A hero is born, not made. 10. No one is above the law. 11. Education is the great equalizer. 12. When the law does not succeed in punishing criminals, citizens should do so.

  4. thenHarper Lee now • Biographical information • http://aolsvc.teenreads.aol.com/authors/au-lee-harper.asp • Reminiscences from former classmates • http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/lee_harper/about/remin.html • Comments to Oprah • http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6347760.html • Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day • http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/books/30lee.html?ex=1296277200&en=8cf62412813411bb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss • Privacy versus publicity • http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/09/11/feat/feat.3.html

  5. The Great Depression • Overview of the time period • http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761584403/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States.html • Cultural information about the time period • http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html • Music • http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/depress.html#top • Growing up during The Great Depression • http://googolplex.cuna.org/12433/ajsmall/story.html?doc_id=564

  6. Scottsboro Trials • History of the Case • http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html#HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20CASE • International Labor Defense's (ILD) Involvement • http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/scottsboro.html • Famous Trials • http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm • Historical Context

  7. Jim Crow Laws • What was Jim Crow? Examples of laws • http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm • Jim Crow Laws • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

  8. Lynching • Newspaper articles from early 1900s • http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/lynching_newspaper_articles.pdf • General information about lynching • http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm • Lynching in America • http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynching.htm • “Strange Fruit” a song about lynching • http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fruitholiday.html

  9. Random Facts about To Kill a Mockingbird The Boo Radleys • Publication of novel in regards to Civil Rights Movement timeline • http://library.advanced.org/12111/SG/SG5.html#pubs • Interview: Growing up black in the 1930s • http://library.thinkquest.org:80/12111/mculley.html • Censorship of novel • http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bbwlinks&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=136590 • Allusions to novel in popular culture • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_in_popular_culture

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