To Kill a Mockingbird Characters, Themes and Contexts Workbook

This is a blank workbook for students to fill in as they study the novel. Because it’s a Word doc, you can easily adapt it. I have taken the characters and themes which have appeared in past questions on the Edexcel IGCSE Lit course, but you could easily add/remove pages if needed.

There’s a title page and an index. After that the rest of the booklet consists of two pages per character or theme.

The first page has a small picture in the middle and plenty of room around it so students can write a few key key quotations about that character, or create a mindmap about them, as appropriate.

The second page contains a table, divided as per the three main sections of the novel (Part One, Tom’s trial, and the aftermath of the trial) giving room for students to collect key moments/quotations from those sections that they could use in their exam essays. There’s also a box for recording key social and biographical contexts relevant to that character or theme.

It’s useful for helping them consolidate their knowledge as they study the novel, and is an invaluable revision resource.