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MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird. Perspectives. MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird. Significant concept: Perspectives are shaped and influenced by age, race and background. MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird. Unit question How do you see the world?. MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird.
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MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Perspectives
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Significant concept: Perspectives are shaped and influenced by age, race and background.
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Unit question How do you see the world?
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Area of Interaction Environments how we interact with our environment influences how we look at the world
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Context • Harper Lee, b. 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama • Story set in the Deep South in the 1930s • Important period in American history • The Great Depression • Disenfranchisement of blacks and the poor • Novel published in 1960 • American civil rights movement at its peak
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Today’s task: • research topics that will help us understand the setting, mood and reaction to the novel; • Prepare an ‘informal’ Presentation of your findings in Powerpoint(5-10 minutes).
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Step by step • Gather information from various online and printed resources (mediatheek); • Form a consensus view about the most relevant information; • Prepare a 5-10 minute Powerpoint presentation of your findings; • Give your presentation to the class; • Hand in a copy of your presentation.
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee & Mockingbirds: Jodie, Iris, Jaime The Deep South: Tushar, Rudi, Stella The Great Depression: Eric, Lysanne, Ben , Femke Lynch mobs: Max, Roos, Ian, Thomas The Scottsboro Boys: Janneke, Nick, Anna, Disenfranchisement and the civil rights movement: Lena, Marc, Dante, Valerie
MYP UNIT: To Kill a Mockingbird Timetable: Wed (today): Gather information Thurs: Gather information and make presentation Fri: Presentations (Harper Lee; The Deep South & the Great Depression) Mon: Presentations (Disenfranchisement … ; the Scottsboro Boys; Lynch mobs)