Think Quest Lesson-To Kill a Mockingbird

Material:
Text - To Kill A Mockingbird, The Screenplay by Horton Foote

Do Now:
List five milestones chronologically in the civil rights movement. When was To Kill A Mockingbird published?
For assistance, use the Time Line.

Aim:
How can we describe the gothic features of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird?

Motivation:
Teacher asks students to name some scary movies they have viewed.

Procedures:

1. Review vocabulary: entailment; collards; puny; regal; austere; subdued
2. Students work in pairs to list typical features of scary movies, for example: locations; types of characters; mood; sound effects; type of music; subject matter/theme; emotions: etc. When they are finished, students go to the following site and note any others that they might have missed. List of Gothic Features
3. Students take parts and read pages 3 through 9 of the To Kill A Mockingbird screenplay.
4. Discussion and review questions:
   1. When does this story take place?
   2. Who is telling the story? From whose point of view is the story told?
   3. What do we learn about Mr. Radley's son?
   4. What does the name Boo make the reader think of?
5. Students refer to the following link and write why children make good characters in gothic stories: Point Of View

Homework:
Students finish writing their paragraph on why children make good characters in gothic stories.