Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird

9th GradeELA55 min

Learning Objective

I can analyze how prejudice and injustice are portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Lesson Flow

Watch Video

12 min

Guided Notes

11 min

Key concepts students will learn:

  • According to the video, one of the great pleasures of reading is that we get to escape our narrow lives and imagine the world from other people’s perspectives.

  • In To Kill a Mockingbird, class is deeply entrenched in Maycomb, and it is by not honoring the class structure that Scout is able to achieve a small measure of justice.

  • Calpurnia’s “double life” is a textbook example of what W.E.B. Du Bois called a double-consciousness, where one is always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.

Practice

17 min

12 questions • Multiple choice & Short answer

Exit Ticket

5 min

Explain how the character of Calpurnia demonstrates the concept of "double-consciousness" as discussed in the video.

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