To Kill a Mockingbird Differentiated Unit Essential Questions: How are biases of all kinds harmful? Can prejudice ever NOT exist? Are people entitled to opinions that may harm others? What is courage? What is justice? Learning Goals and Understandings: • Students will consider the questions‚ what is good and right and how do we decide that that? • Students will learn to identify and apply the following literary terms: point of view‚ characterization‚ setting‚ and theme • Students will evaluate how
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The Character of Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird The narrator‚ Scout from the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ is a grown woman telling the story through her eyes as a young girl. Most of the book’s charm is gathered from the ironicness of her perspective of growing up in the depression era in the South. As the novel progresses Scout becomes more courageous‚ intelligent‚ and mature which helps her develop into a better person. Scout is a very courageous young girl. In chapter two
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autobiography A Work in Progress‚ best relates to Jem and Scout’s journey of growing up from To Kill a Mockingbird. Although Jem and Connor seem to relate more‚ Scout has a deeper connection rather than more than one connection. Connor Franta compares to Jem in understanding himself and seeing changes‚ as he compares to Scout by becoming more aware of how you view yourself and how others view you. One way that Connor relates to Jem is that as Jem got older he started to understand himself and find
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Both Inherit the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird exhibit this bias. In the time period in which they were written (1950-1960)‚ prejudice was starting to be recognized and fought more. Although both works experience and overcome prejudice‚ Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s Inherit the Wind focuses on discrimination against free thought and faith‚ whereas Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird condemns victims through racism along with ageism. Both Inherit the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird show themes
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need to be scared but help each other.” The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee supports the meaning of Wangari Maathai’s quote through the use of the literary devices of Symbolism and Setting. The author of the quote Wangari Maathai has used the literary device of Setting like in To Kill a Mockingbird. This literary device of setting relates to both the quote and novel. The quote talks about “to reach a higher moral ground.” This is how the novel has talked about the characters in the story
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The characters in the book To Kill a Mockingbird have changed a lot throughout the novel. They have many different relationships in the book. Throughout the novel we read about Jem and Scout at many ages. We read about Jem from when he’s a child to a young adult and about Scout when she’s a child. We see them grow all throughout the course of the novel. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird the author shows how Jem matures. He is still a boy at this point (chapter 16-20) in the book but is reaching
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To kill a mockingbird and Color Purple are two really good books who have their similarities‚ but of course not two things can be equal. This two book show us the the same from two different points of view. Both of them talk the problematics of African American in those times. It shows how life can be unfair sometimes and how most of those times‚ there is nothing we might do to change it. It shows how our decisions and action define us. How we live in a society were looking for equality and hoping
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that often... I was the oldest out of three. My dad wasn’t majorly involved in any extracurricular activities I did‚ but for the most part he was for my littlest brother. My mom was she was there for me when I was in Girl Scout and basketball. Every time i wanted to quit girl scouts or basketball when i was younger my mom wouldn’t let me she would always say she won’t let me be a quitter when I grow up. In high school i tried out for the drill team my mom was there telling me what i needed to fix‚ and
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In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee shows the characteristics of the Jeremy Finch through his younger sister and narrator‚ Scout Finch. Jem is a young boy growing up in the 1930’s deep south of America. Throughout the text Scout sees Jem display characteristics similar to Atticus that contradict common society‚ his maturation into a young man and his continuing childish perspective. One characteristic shown of Jem Finch that is similar to Atticus is his ability to empathize or “….climb
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To Kill a Mockingbird Discussion Essay- Jem and Scout are taught nothing of great importance in the classroom. Their real education comes from the people and events they experience. In To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scouts education is learnt in many ways‚ through classroom teaching‚ by their father Atticus and through Tom Robinsons trial. Through these experiences the children learn how life can bring many ordeals that are unfair or wrong but learn how it can be dealt with. Jem is affected differently
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