Unit Plan Title: To Kill A Mockingbird Unit Summary:
A Child’s Tale Perspective on Racial and Social Injustice: To Kill a Mockingbird Students will examine Lee’s use of historical, cultural, and sociological norms to convey Southern small town life through the eyes of a child seeking answers for society’s cruelties. Within this unit, students will investigate the pervasive nature of racism by studying Lee’s use of acute social and psychological observations, setting and symbol to portray the values, attitudes, and beliefs of the time. Additionally, students will engage in drafting stories and personal responses in order to develop voice within their own writing. Curriculum Framing Questions:
What does it mean to grow up?
The impact of narrator reliability: understanding the story through the perspective of a adult’s recollection of her younger self’s perspective.
Understanding the historical, cultural, and sociological context of Maycomb, Alabama
Lee’s use of acute social and psychological observations in order to create intimate character sketches of the townspeople and their beliefs.
Lee’s use of symbolism (i.e. the snowman, the mad dog, the mockingbird) to portray the pervasive and ignorant nature of racism.
Lee’s thematic messages regarding appearance versus reality, justice versus injustice, and innocence versus corruption.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Unit Summary:
A Child’s Tale Perspective on Racial and Social Injustice: To Kill a Mockingbird
Students will examine Lee’s use of historical, cultural, and sociological norms to convey Southern small town life through the eyes of a child seeking answers for society’s cruelties. Within this unit, students will investigate the pervasive nature of racism by studying Lee’s use of acute social and psychological observations, setting and symbol to portray the values, attitudes, and beliefs of the time. Additionally, students will engage in drafting stories and personal responses in order to develop voice within their own writing.
Curriculum Framing Questions:
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