To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: Background Information
Prepared by Mrs. Roff, library media specialist
Assignment:
1. Decide on a narrowed topic after viewing and reading the information gathered below.
2. Ask yourself: What interests me the most?
3. Create a question that will focus your research. What question do I want to answer in my infographic?
4. Feel free to use information from the sources below, but research at least one source of additional
information from books and the internet.
5. Take accurate notes from credible sources that answer your question.
6. Create an infographic, depicting in graphics (pictures) and text (words) the information you have found as a
means of teaching others about your topic.
7. List the sources that you used on a separate sheet or on the infographic itself.
Website: Provide the title and URL.
Book: Provide the author, title, publisher, and year.
8. Print your Infographic on your own or in the media center. Print your list of sources if separate.
1. Decide on a narrowed topic after viewing and reading the information gathered below.
2. Ask yourself: What interests me the most?
3. Create a question that will focus your research. What question do I want to answer in my infographic?
4. Feel free to use information from the sources below, but research at least one source of additional
information from books and the internet.
5. Take accurate notes from credible sources that answer your question.
6. Create an infographic, depicting in graphics (pictures) and text (words) the information you have found as a
means of teaching others about your topic.
7. List the sources that you used on a separate sheet or on the infographic itself.
Website: Provide the title and URL.
Book: Provide the author, title, publisher, and year.
8. Print your Infographic on your own or in the media center. Print your list of sources if separate.
What is an infographic? An infographic (information graphic) is a representation of information in a
graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance.
graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance.
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by Michael Levy, Feb. 19, 2016
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by Julia Wald, Feb. 5, 2016
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To Kill a Mockingbird Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930s:
"Learn about the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee’s hometown and the inspiration for the fictional town of Maycomb, the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird. Through archival interviews, photographs, and present-day commentary (including an excerpt from an interview with Harper Lee), [see] what life was like for people living in the South during the Great Depression." - A PBS video |
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by Donald Miller and Douglas Brinkley: A Biography of America
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Created by Facing History and Ourselves
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Possible questions to explore and depict about the setting of To Kill A Mockingbird:
1. How did The Great Depression affect Southerners in the 1930's?
2. In what way was there racial tension and discrimination in the south during the 1930's?
3. What were the gender expectations (gender bias) for women in the south during the 1930's?
4. How was education discriminatory in the 1930's?
5. How did The Great Depression affect the African American population in the south during the 1930's?
6. What major trials in the 1930's south evidenced discrimination in the justice system against African
Americans?
7. Other?
1. How did The Great Depression affect Southerners in the 1930's?
2. In what way was there racial tension and discrimination in the south during the 1930's?
3. What were the gender expectations (gender bias) for women in the south during the 1930's?
4. How was education discriminatory in the 1930's?
5. How did The Great Depression affect the African American population in the south during the 1930's?
6. What major trials in the 1930's south evidenced discrimination in the justice system against African
Americans?
7. Other?
