Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Warner Books, 1960.

Essential Questions:

1. How does the community of Maycomb define the roles and personalities of various characters? How does the setting and geography reflect these definitions?
2. How do characters deal with the pressure of these roles, expections, and stereotypes?
3. What are the life lessons Atticus tries to teach his children?
4. Who is marginalized in Maycomb? How do they each deal with their marginalization? What effect do they have, or what purpose do they serve, in the larger community?

Reading the Novel:

1. Highlight descriptions of places. Create a map of the town of Maycomb.
2. Look out for the motif of birds
3. Make a note of the different kinds of education the children receive -- especially the life lessons they get from Atticus
4. Look for the differences between the everyday reality that adults see and the imaginative reality that the children see

To Kill a Mockingbird Reading Guide.pdf

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