WEBQUEST: To Kill A Mockingbird - PC\|MAC



WEBQUEST: To Kill a Mockingbird

 

The purpose of this activity is for you to use the Internet to find and review the historical backdrop of To Kill a Mockingbird. The historical context will provide you with a deeper understanding of the significance of the novel.

 

The Great Depression & 1930s America

1. Click on and explore the pictures taken from the 1930s Depression Era.

Picture two’s caption comments, “Not only did bank failures wipe out people's savings, they also undermined the ideology of thrift.” What does this mean?

How do you think this event affected the post depression era generations?

What influence do you think this attitude may have had on the current economic situation (the downturn in the market, bankruptcies, foreclosures, high credit card balances and/or reduced lending availability?

Considering the content and captions of pictures, what contribution did the climate change of the 1930s make to the U.S.’s already troubled times?

In what ways did the economic and environmental events of the 1920s and 1930s impact the social events of the 1930s and 1940s?

What historical figure, do you feel, influenced or could have influenced this period and how?

2. Explore the following links and print out one article that most interests you. Read and Highlight the important aspects of each article and write notes in the margin. Attach the highlighted and annotated articles to this cover sheet.

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This site is about the Great Depression that impacted the global community.

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This site is about the Depression in the United States during the 1930s.

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This site discusses The Great Depression.

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This site discusses what it was like to grow up black in the 1930s.

What historical figure, do you feel, influenced or could have influenced this period and how?

3. Click on the following link: and then Click on the Table of Contents links (located to the left of the screen) to find out more about life in the 1930s. Write a brief summary (1or 2 sentences each) about five different facts you learned about life in the 1930s.

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What historical figure, do you feel, influenced or could have influenced this period and how?

 Jim Crow Laws

1. Click on

Read the information on this page and write a brief summary (3-5 sentences) of what you

learned.

2. Click on the various links listed below. Print one article that interests you. Read, Highlight, and annotate the important aspects of the article. Attach the highlighted articles to this cover sheet.

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This site provides a brief history of the Jim Crow laws.

b.

This site provides examples of Jim Crow laws.

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This site answers the question: What was Jim Crow?

What historical figure, do you feel, influenced or could have influenced this period and how?

The Scottsboro Incident

1. The setting for the Scottsboro case was the rural American South in the 1930s, when whites feared racial fraternization as much as blacks feared the mobs that enforced segregation. The defendants in the case were known as the Scottsboro Boys—a label that reflected their youth, but even more, in that place and at that time, an epithet used to imply racial inferiority. Click on the following links, read about the trial, and summarize what you learned from each link.

a. This site provides a Brief synopsis of the Scottsboro incident.

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b. This site focuses on issues, such as the lynching in Alabama, that took place after the trial.

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What historical figure, do you feel, influenced or could have influenced this period and how?

Final Assignment:

Type a one-page synopsis reflecting upon what you have learned about 1930s America, Jim Crow Laws, and the Scottsboro Trial. Be sure to adhere to MLA format.

• ?      What surprised you?

• ?      What made you angry?

• ?      What do you think life would have been like for a small town, teenage, Caucasian girl or boy during this period? Would they have been aware of the political and socio-economic issues of the day?

• ?      How would life have been different for a teenage, African American girl or boy during this period? What concerns would they have had?

• ?      How have these events shaped the world today? If you could go back and make one change to the history that you have investigated in this assignment, whose shoes would you step into and what would you do?

 

This Webquest Due: Tomorrow, thirty minutes into classtime and worth 100 points. (thoroughness will be the deciding factor)

Final Assignment Due: _________________ and worth 100 points.

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