Candace R Craig

A Classroom Guide to to Kill a Mockingbird Candace R Craig

Publisher Marketing: The To Kill a Mockingbird classroom guide is the fourth (and longest) in an ongoing series of Craig's Notes Classroom Guides. It includes all of the features that make Craig's guides thorough, practical, and insightful: chapter summaries, commentary, and ready-to-copy exploratory questions, quizzes, tests, vocabulary, literary activities, projects and writing ideas, and much more. Aside from assisting students and teachers in coming to grips with Lee's signature masterpiece, the guide is focused mainly upon traditional literary elements, although it introduces archetypal and historical criticism as well. It also contains a play adaptation of just the trial scenes, with intervening critical thinking questions students can use to lead the class in presentations and interpretive discussions. The bulk of the Mockingbird guide is delimited by pre-and-post reading projects and activities, but the main section progresses every two chapters, with a few exceptions. For every two chapters, you'll find: 1. Chapter summary (with a bit of commentary) for the teacher, which relates also to the concept(s) and/or follow-up activity; 2. A single student hand-out that includes pre-reading journal questions, the up-coming chapters' vocabulary list and guided reading questions; 3. A brief reading quiz to check for basic comprehension (to keep students on their toes), to be given after the assigned reading is due but before discussion; 4. A worksheet, class activity or lesson plan on a specific literary element or concept that works well with the correlating chapters from the novel; 5. A test/essay ("Quest"), which checks the student's knowledge of the vocabulary words and includes an essay prompt based on the concept(s) from the lesson. The guide also includes activities that incorporate Lee's second novel, Go Set a Watchman, and recent events across the United States, from Ferguson, Missouri to New York City. Users of this guide will have even more reason to taut Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for being as relevant today as it was in the years immediately following its publication in 1960. Be sure to check out the contents pages to preview this and much more.