Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird
Grade 9th Grade · ELA · 55 min
What's Included
Learning Objective
I can analyze how prejudice and injustice are portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Warm-Up Video
CrashCourse · 11:37
Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird: Crash Course Literature 211
Guided Notes
3 key concepts
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
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 Questions
12 questions · Multiple choice & Short answer
Exit Ticket
Quick comprehension check
“Explain how the character of Calpurnia demonstrates the concept of "double-consciousness" as discussed in the video.”
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