To Kill a Mockingbird

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Cliffs Notes: Harper Lee Biography


E Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird Summary / Study Guide

Summary and study guide, with notes, essays, quotes, and pictures.

EdSitement: Profiles in Courage: To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial 

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Encyclopedia of Alabama: Nelle Harper Lee

This study guide contains a biography of Harper Lee, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Harper Lee

A selective bibliography of open access articles on Harper Lee, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


Harper Lee Biography:  Biography.com


This web site is part of the Literary Department of Homework Online. It has been created to help students and readers of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird better understand the novel. Included in this site are summaries and explanations, character analysis, discussion of themes, a user's forum where readers can discuss and ask questions, and much more.

This unit guides students on a journey through the Depression Era in the 1930s. Activities familiarize the students with Southern experiences through the study of the novel and African American experiences through the examination of primary sources.

A 9 week (45-minute class period) integrated language arts/social studies unit.  It focuses on the reading of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, but broadens the background of the novel. This is accomplished as students explore the tragic case of the Scottsboro Boys in a WebQuest, an introduction to the Jim Crow System through supplemental readings, and research into actual demographic statistics of Monroeville and Monroe County, Alabama, of the 1930s. The unit plan includes literature circle response discussion and a variety of supplemental readings and activities to complete the picture of rural Alabama presented in the novel.

There are five outstanding thesis statements (paper topics) on this book that can be used as essay starters. They all include at least one of the themes found in Harper Lee’s book and could be used in classroom lessons. 

An annotation of Harper Lee's famous novel, this site contains definitions for over 400 words, allusions, and idioms found in the book.


Web English Teacher: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources