Websites
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Some super useful annotations to help you with some tricky words.
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The murder of Emmett Till (1955) is one of several injustices that seem to have inspired events in To Kill a Mockingbird (published 1960). Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy brutally murdered by two white men in August 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store. This PBS article gives some background on Till and his murder.
Movie or TV Productions
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You can't get more classic than this: the 1962 production with Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall.
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It's not an adaptation—it's a documentary about the adaptation. Pretty cool.
Articles
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If you want something a little harder, check out this 1903 essay by W.E.B. DuBois on African-American experience.
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In January 2009, high school teacher John Foley wrote an opinion piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer arguing that, now that President Obama is President-elect (at the time of Foley's publication), classic texts like To Kill a Mockingbird and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should be dropped from the curriculum for using the "N-word." Read Foley's opinion piece here.
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The man behind all those awesome books about cool stuff (you know the ones) voices his thoughts on "Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism."
Video
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Film buffs say that To Kill a Mockingbird's opening credits sequence is one of the greatest of all time. Watch it here.
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Charles J. Shields talks about his biography of Harper Lee.
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Pressed for time? Check out the trailer for the 1962 movie adaptation.
Audio
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Gregory Peck delivers Atticus's closing speech. Get ready to be stirred.
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Almost eight minutes of mockingbird song! Check out what all the fuss is for.
Images
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Can't you just picture her sitting on her porch offering cake to the neighbor kids?
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Atticus and his client, looking pretty grim.
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Take a good look so you don't kill one.