To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson Plan

Students read chapters 18-24.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   Reading well: appreciating how the author is playing out each theme; appreciating how the author is weaving together the various threads of the narrative; enjoying the suspense of an emotionally charged trial.

2. 2

   Thinking well: using the discussion questions and the trial to consider how to draw conclusions from evidence and to use evidence to weigh arguments and counterarguments.

3. 3

   Speaking well: developing oral skills through vocabulary development, debate, and group discussion.

4. 4

   Listening well: developing a taste for good grammar and strong diction by closely examining the testimony in the trial; evaluating oral arguments...