Schedule/Lesson Plans
Capstone Project Ideas
Essay Topics
Additional Resources
NCTE Standards
Credits
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 students and teachers on idioms, vocabulary, and allusions in the novel, 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out of date.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).
