To Kill a Mockingbird for CIE IGCSE

This unit includes everything you need to teach Mockingbird at High School for the IGCSE, and it will save you hours of preparation time! It is focused on essay writing skills for Cambridge IGCSE, but it could be easily adapted for other exam boards. It includes 23 lessons; each lesson covers a chapter of the novel. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, assessment questions, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts for analysis, online research, opportunities for creative writing, context cards and a revision workbook. The page numbers refer to the Orange Faber and Faber edition with an introduction by Ian Gregor.

Chapter 1: An introduction to Maycomb County and Alabama
Chapter 2: A Southern Education, Miss Caroline extract practice
Chapter 3: The relationship between Atticus and Scout
Chapter 4: Atticus and Bravery
Chapter 5: Miss Maudie Atkinson
Chapter 6: How Harper Lee builds tension
Chapter 7: Growing Up
Chapter 8: Creative Writing and The Fire
Chapter 10: The rabid dog
Chapter 11: Ms Dubose and Southern Belles
Chapter 12: Segregation and Calpurnia’s church
Chapter 13: Aunt Alexandra
Chapter 14: Exam practice
Chapter 15: Lynch Mobs and the KKK
Chapters 16-21: The Trial
Chapter 17: How Harper Lee creates mood and atmosphere
Chapter 21: The Verdict
Chapter 23: Character Foils: Bob and Atticus
Chapter 24: The Missionary Ladies
Chapter 25: Role Models
Chapter 28: The attack on Scout and Jem
Chapters 29-30: The Aftermath
Chapter 31: The Ending