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Students should answer the following questions after viewing the Hey Boo, Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird excerpts. The links are below. I have also uploaded the assignment on my webpage.To Kill a Mockingbird Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930sDiscussion Questions the video, what does Harper Lee say in the archival radio interview about growing up in the South during the Great Depression?In this video, Wally Lamb reads a passage from?To Kill a Mockingbird?that describes the fictional town of Maycomb. What is it about the text Harper Lee used that makes this town come alive? Cite examples from the video (Note: use the transcript for additional help) to support your claim.How does the video describe life in the South during the Great Depression?What does Rev. Thomas Lane Butts mean when he says that "people took in racism with their mother’s milk?"Character Study: Scout FinchDiscussion Questions other famous characters in American literature is Scout compared to in the video?According to the video, what makes Scout a “typically American character?”How is Scout’s childhood described in the video?What special impact did Scout have on the female novelists interviewed in the video? What words do they use to describe her?In the video, the narrator says “A grown up Scout was the narrator of?To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout is simultaneously an adult looking back and a child experiencing life in a small town—a difficult feat—ask any writer.” Using evidence from the video, describe why this is so challenging.Is To Kill a Mockingbird Still Relevant Today?Discussion Kill a Mockingbird?takes place in a small southern Alabama town in the 1930s, but it was published in the early 1960s. Describe the climate in the South, and Alabama in particular, when the book was published. Use evidence from the video to support your answer.In the video, the author Diane McWhorter talks about when she was a young girl in 1963 and how she felt when she first watched the movie based on?To Kill a Mockingbird. What does McWhorter mean when she says “It made me confront the difficulty that Southerners have in going against people that they love? ” (Be sure to describe the transformation she experienced.)As discussed in the video, what are the some of the messages presented to the reader in?To Kill a Mockingbird?What reasons does the video give as to why?To Kill a Mockingbird?is still relevant today?To Kill a Mockingbird: Southern Reaction 1960Discussion Questions to the video, why didn’t people in Monroeville, Alabama "pay it any mind" when?To Kill a Mockingbird?came out? What do you think Jane Clark meant by that?Mary Tucker said she didn’t know what the white community’s reaction was to the book. Why? What does that tell you about the societal structure of Monroeville?Describe the evidence Andrew Young presented to support his statement "it was too close to me."In this video, many people comment on the impact and importance of this book. What statement do you find most powerful? Why? ................
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