Character Arcs in To Kill a Mockingbird

Character Arcs in To Kill a Mockingbird

9th Grade · ELA · 45 min

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Learning Objective

I can analyze how a character's experiences in To Kill a Mockingbird shape their changing perspectives and moral growth.

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

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout doesn't like the class structure of Maycomb and argues that there is just one kind of folks. Folks.

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    Atticus displays real courage when defending Tom Robinson, which he defines as, “…when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”