English 1201 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper
English 1201 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Class One Notes Student responsibility: Homework for the next two nights Questions on Ch. 1 -5 Numbers: 3, 16, 19, 20 Journal # _____ For Glossary: Genre: the type of literature; the category or classification. Fiction: work based on the imagination of the author. Creation of characters and plot are not real-life though they could be probable. Setting: time, place, circumstances and atmosphere of a piece of literature. Atmosphere: the feeling that is created by the description of the physical setting.
To Kill A Mockingbird as Historical Fiction To Kill A Mockingbird is based on a period in the USA which did exist and conditions have been historically noted. The key period, the Depression Era of the 1930’s, occurred after the great stock market crash of 1929. After this period people were without jobs and money was very scarce. As well as the main setting, some significant events did occur in the life of young Harper Lee and these are alluded to in the text of her novel: Issues with racism and social stereotyping Issues concerning the Scottsboro Trials Issues with the KKK and mob mentality and brutality
For Glossary: Historical fiction: An imaginary novel or story with characters and events that are created from the imagination of the author but the basis of setting (time, place and circumstances) are historic and real.
Setting of To Kill A Mockingbird Details of the exposition Setting: vivid description of 1930’s depression years, Southern Alabama, USA, (Maycomb). Racism was only one of the prevalent social prejudices. Novel publication: 1960. Racism still a very significant problem. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other activists existed all over the USA.
Description of the town: Find statements which most aptly describe the setting of the novel. Show they develop the atmosphere of the novel. � “Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch's Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County. " � "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. ” � “Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. . . " � "People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. “
Atmosphere and Diction �Atmosphere: _______________ �Diction which promotes the atmosphere: “. . . old town, …a tired old town …streets turned to red slop; … courthouse sagged. ” “…. hotter then: … flicked flies in the sweltering shade… “
Setting quotes: “Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum…There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. " Speaker: ______________ Page reference: _________ Atmosphere created: _________ Underline the words/phrases that create it.
Vocabulary To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1: 1. assuaged 2. apothecary 3. taciturn 4. repertoire 5. vapid 6. malevolent 7. predilection 8. nebulous Chapter 2: 1. condescended 2. indigenous 3. wallowing 4. illicitly 5. impressionistic 6. entailment 7. vexations Chapter 3: 1. dispensation 2. cordially 3. tranquility 4. iniquities 5. flinty 6. contemptuous 7. contentious 8. diminutive 9. judiciously 10. disapprobation Chapter 4: 1. auspicious 2. arbitrated 3. melancholy Chapter 5: 1. benign 2. tacit 3. pestilence 4. benevolence 5. placidly 6. asinine 7. edification
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