To Kill a Mockingbird - Complete unit of work

To Kill a Mockingbird can be taught in Year 9 to cover KS3 Reading World Literature.


Content includes:
- A brief biography of Harper Lee and the social and historical context of 1930s Alabama and 1960s America
- 33 lesson scheme of work (following the four part lesson plan structure)
- Activities to develop knowledge of the plot
- In depth analysis of the characters of Scout, Jem, Atticus, Dill, Boo Radley, Bob Ewell and Miss Maudie
- Exploration of the key themes (law, good and evil, courage, prejudice, racism, class, innocence and maturity, etc)
- Developing awareness of the features of a novel – character, theme, plot, style
- Harper Lee's message and the role of setting, the mockingbird motif and language
- Cloze passage to consolidate understanding of the plot
- Discussion tasks
- Hot seating activities
- Empathy activities
- Video links to help the teaching and learning of plot, character and theme
- Character analysis and profiling
- Mind mapping themes and issues

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is fully editable, so teachers are able to adapt the resource to suit the needs of each class they teach.