To Kill A Mockingbird
Teacher's Guide - Additional Resources

Introduction

Schedule/Lesson Plans

Capstone Project Ideas

Essay Topics

Additional Resources

NCTE Standards

Credits

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Web sites

To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee
A site that deals with every facet of Lee and her novel, including a biography, bibliography, and little known facts about her life and career.

The To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide
A very detailed guide for student and teacher on idioms, vocabulary, and allusions in the novel. It was assembled by a high school teacher in Los Angeles.

To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now
A compendium of exercises, study tools, and links for both the novel and the film, the site is very useful but somewhat out of date.

Printed Resources

Bloom, Harold, editor. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations. (New York: Chelsea House, 1996).

Childress, Mark. “Looking for Harper Lee.” Southern Living, (May 1997). pp. 148-50.

Erisman, Fred. “The Romantic Regionalism of Harper Lee.” Alabama Review, No. 26, (April, 1973). pp. 122-136.

Going, William T. “Truman Capote: Harper Lee's Fictional Portrait of the Artist as an Alabama Child.” Alabama Review, Vol. 42, No. 2. pp. 136-149.

Johnson, Claudia Durst. Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook. (New York:
Greenwood, 1994).

Johnson, Claudia Durst. To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries. (New York: Twayne
Publishers, 1994).

Shields, Charles J. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. (New York: Henry Holt, 2006).