To Kill a Mockingbird: A Teaching Guide

The challenging level focuses on a variety of reading strategies to help students construct a meaningful literature experience as well as develop critical thinking and academic skills.

Table of Contents

Notes to the Teacher
About the Organization of This Literature Guide

o Chapter Pages
o Strategy Pages
o Tests
o Writer s Forum Pages
o History of Social Thought Pages
o Theme Pages

The Groupings of Literature
Introducing the Literature
Sample Lesson Plan
Quick Find Legal Vocabulary

Book Order
Alphabetical Order

Quick Find Chapter Index
Bibliography
Note: The chapters in this book are untitled: the phrases after each title are placed as guides

Part One:

Strategy 1: Beginning a Book
Strategy 2: Marking a Text

Chapter 1: Dill Arrives

Strategy 3: References and Allusions Consulting Outside Sources
Strategy 4: Plot The Design of a Story
Strategy 5: Forming Hypotheses
Strategy 6: Rhetorical Figures

Chapter 2: Scout s First Day of School

Strategy 7: Characterization
Writer s Forum 1: Description
Strategy 8: Plot Conflict
Writer s Forum 2: Journal

Chapter 3: Walter Cunningham and Burris Ewell

Strategy 9: Irony
Strategy 10: Point of View
Writer s Forum 3: Compare and Contrast Essay

Chapter 4: Gum in the Oak Tree

Strategy 11: Setting and Mood
Strategy 12: Foreshadowing and Flashback

Chapter 5: Miss Maudie; The Fishing Pole Note

Strategy 13: Dialogue
Writer s Forum 4: Dialogue
Test 1: Chapters 1-5

Chapter 6: Jem Loses His Pants...and Recovers them

Writer s Forum 5: Persuasion

Chapter 7: Soap Figures; Thank you; Filing the Knot-Hole

Writer s Forum 6: Thank-you Note

Chapter 8: Snow and Fire

Writer s Forum 7: Parody

Chapter 9: Atticus Accepts the Robinson Case; Scout Fights Francis

Strategy 14: Names and Characterizating Terms

Chapter 10: Mad Dog

Strategy 15: Characterization Continuum

Chapter 11: Mrs. Dubose

Writer s Forum 8: Definition
Test 2: Chapters 6-11


Part Two
Chapter 12: Calpurnia s Church

Strategy 16: Prior Knowledge

Chapter 13: Aunt Alexandra Comes to Stay

Strategy 17: Distinguishing Fact and Opinion

Chapter 14: Dill Runs Away
Chapter 15: Friends in the Yard; Mob at the Jail

Strategy 18: Historical Fiction/Autobiography
Test 3: Chapters 12-15

Chapter 16: The Courtroom
Chapter 17: Heck Tate and Robert E. Lee Ewell Testify

Strategy 19: Sensory Language

Chapter 18: Mayella Ewell Testifies

Strategy 20: Imaging

Chapter 19: Tom Robinson Testifies
Chapter 20: Dill and Mr. Dolphus Raymond Meet; Atticus s Closing Speech

Strategy 21: Revising Hypotheses

Chapter 21: The Jury Decides

Writer s Forum 9: News Article
Test 4: Chapters 16-21

Chapter 22: Reactions to the Verdict; Bob Ewell Threatens Atticus
Chapter 23: Picking the Jury in Retrospect; Folks

Writer s Forum 10: Summary

Chapter 24: Missionary Circle Meeting

Strategy 22: Stock Characters and Character Foils

Chapter 25: The Death of Tom Robinson

Writer s Forum 11: Eulogy/Anecdote

Chapter 26: Hitler and Democracy

Test 5: Chapters 22-26

Chapter 27: Bob Ewell Trespasses at Judge Taylor s, Trails Helen

Writer s Forum 12: Possible Ending

Chapter 28: Halloween Pageant and Return Home

Strategy 23: Adjusting Reading Rate

Chapter 29: Scout Tells Her Story and Meets Boo

Strategy 24: Logical Fallacies

Chapter 30: Heck Tate Decides

Writer s Forum 13: Evaluation

Chapter 31: Scout Takes Boo Home; Last View of the Finch Family