Go Set a Watchman Lesson Plan

Diverging Timelines

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

Students will explore the consequences of events in To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and how things could have gone differently for the characters in both novels.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

Structure:

Break students into two groups to create timelines using pen and paper, digital tools, or any other medium available. One group will make a timeline of important events from To Kill a Mockingbird, while the other group creates a timeline of events from Go Set a Watchman. Important events might include the Tom Robinson trial; the lynching of Tom...