1. TO Kill a Mockingbird Screen Play By Harper Lee Mr. Shelton George Wythe High School

2. Pre-reading:  Point of View: the story is told by the pov of a six-year-old girl. We see the world through her eyes; this is to accent her growth / loss of innocence.  Setting: Maycomb Alabama In other words, it is the deep south during the depression era. This means poverty and prejudice are to be expected.

3. Themes  Prejudice  Social, racial, any other difference.

4. Characters  Scout Finch: otherwise knows as Jean Louise Finch. She is six years old and the protagonist of the story.  Atticus Finch: Scout’s father. He is a lawyer and a single parent  Jem Finch: Scout’s ten-year-old brother.  Dil: Charles Baker Harris: a boy from Meridian Mississippi who does not have a father and comes to visit every summer.

5. Characters  Miss Maudie: She is the next door neighbor who is a kind woman who plants flowers all the time.  Miss Stephanie Crawford: the town gossip; foil to Maudie; in the screen play, she keeps Dil.  Miss Rachel Haverford: keeps Dil in the book  Walter Cunningham Sr: father of a poor family in Maycomb; they are farmers, and his son is an acquaintance of Scout.

6. Characters  Bob Ewell: foil to Atticus Finch  Tom Robinson: accused of a crime  Boo Radley: a reclusive boy who lives in the neighborhood; lies are spread about him.

7. Questions 1-20  1. Maycomb Alabama  2. skip  3. False; it was the great depression era  4. Scout: Jean Louise  5: 6  6. He is a local farmer who barters for legal fees  7. Legal work

8. Questions 1-20  8. He is poor.  9. Jem is Atticus’s 9-year-old son.  10. He would not play football for the methodists  11. Maudie is the kind neigbor ladie.  12. Dil  13. he eats raw squirrels, his eyes are popped, and he eats any cats he can catch

9. Questions: 1-20  14. Miss Stephanie is the town gossip; Dil’s aunt  15. Boo Radley had stabbed his father in the leg with scissors.  16. Jem calls his daddy Atticus.  17. She is rumored to have a Confederate pistol under her shawl.  18. He complements her on her camelias

10. Questions: 1-20  19. Atticus’s watch has an inscription from his wife.  20. Jem was six when his mother died.  21. Tom Robinson (who is accused of raping a white woman).  22. She was in the Radley front yard.  23. They see Tom Robinson’s trial.

11. 20-40  24. Dill  25. They see Tom Robinson on trial.  26. Came to see Boo Radley in the basement.  27. If he believes Tom’s story.  28. Tom is guilty before tried.  29. Sneak into the back yard of the Radley place.

12. 20-40  30. He tells her that she can’t go.  31. They spit on the gate.  32. They saw a shadow.  33. They take his pants off.  34. a shot gun blast  35. a prowler  36. It is the first day of school  37. She blames him for getting her into trouble.

13. The Court Case  Tom Robinson vs Bob Ewell  Gather evidence for the court case. Who is implied?

14. Understanding Setting: Sit Ins

16. Understanding Setting: Brown vs Board I