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To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird author, Harper Lee, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W Bush in 2007. Photograph : Chip Somodevilla /Getty Images. Chapters 1-2 Annotation Focus. Point of view Shifts between formal/informal diction

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To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

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  1. To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee

  2. To Kill a Mockingbird author, Harper Lee, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W Bush in 2007. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

  3. Chapters 1-2 Annotation Focus • Point of view • Shifts between formal/informal diction • Allusions – find at least two • Character Development: Scout Jem Dill Atticus Calpurnia Boo Radley

  4. Chapters 3-5 • Character Development: Miss Caroline Cunninghams Ewells Miss Maudie

  5. Chapters 6-8 • Changing perception of Boo Radley • Character Development: Jem – maturing Miss Maudie

  6. Allusion to Rosetta Stone • The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. • Rosetta Stone was a key to understanding ancient languages. • This This Rosetta Stone is • an allusion to that Rosetta Stone.

  7. Chapters 9-10 • Lessons the children learn from adult behavior • Character Development: Atticus

  8. Chapter 11-13 • Bravery/courage • Role of women • Class system • Prejudice – race, gender, class • Character Development: Calpurnia Aunt Alexandra

  9. Chapters 14-20 • Justice v. injustice • Jem’s growing maturity - contrast with Scout and Dill • Character Development: Bob Ewell MayellaEwell Tom Robinson

  10. Chapters 21-27 • Tone – awaiting the verdict • Prejudice in all forms (race, gender, class) • Scout’s maturation in context of Boo Radley • Mockingbird motif • Foreshadowing • Character Development: Jem Miss Maudie Scout

  11. Chapters 28-31 • Point of view • Tone • Mockingbird motif • Loss of innocence/growing up • Character development: Atticus Boo Radley

  12. Type II Journal – CharacterizationChapters 1-8 Scout Jem Dill Atticus Calpurnia Boo Radley Miss Caroline Miss Maudie

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