Please do not turn this work in. The guide is simply here to help you through the novel. Looking at it will help you better understand characters, symbols, events, and themes.

Learn about the author's background.

This micro-article summarizes how the nation's economy plummeted in 1929.

The setting of the novel is the 1930s. However, Lee wrote the book in 1960. This year should provide you a lens through which to better understand why she wrote it.

Open this document to better understand the setting of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Read about the event, case, and trial that TKAM's central plot is based upon.

Use this guide to help you through the six, short chapters of this short, but historically important, book.

This is the entire novella, which you may choose to read digitally or print & annotate.

Take your time, savor this small novella. Write a responses of your own while you read, keep your own journal with similar chapter titles.