Norris Language Department

To Kill a Mockingbird

by  

Harper Lee

Harper Lee-a description of the interview with the author following her publishing of To Kill a Mockingbird.   Includes some descriptions of the characters in the book and how the story was based upon her life experience in Maycomb, Alabama.

* Think you know your stuff? Test your reading knowledge and comprehension with practice quizzes.

        *Quotes quiz for chapters 1-11

    *Quiz yourself over chapters 1-10           

Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird

*More, more, more!  A site with numerous links and research information regarding Harper Lee, lesson plans, webquests, and social issues. 

*Stumped on a word?  Vocabulary, allusions and idioms help-A site with a brief chapter synopsis but extensive vocabulary explanations to assist in reading the book.  Vocabulary words are broken down by chapter and defined.

*Summaries and Analysis- Chapter summaries, terms defined, practice quizzes, quotations, major themes, etc. to help in deciphering To Kill a Mockingbird.

*Comprehensive supplemental study guide to reading To Kill a Mockingbird. 

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The Great Depression

*Prices from the 1930s compared to now.

*Historical interviews-The following are links to interviews with people who grew

    up in the south during the 1930s.

    *Interviews with white women who grew up in the south during the 1930s

    *Interviews with black women who grew up poor in the south during the 1930s

*Scottsboro Trial-A trial in the south that is similar to the Robinson trial in To Kill a Mockingbird.

How is To Kill a Mockingbird still relevant?  

Harper Lee is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush on November 5th, 2007 for the impact To Kill a Mockingbird has had on the world.  It has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.