To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Audiobook available in the CHS library.

Poetry (choose 2)

• "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall
• "Black and White" by Three Dog Night (song lyrics) Video with lyrics. Video, live performance.

Short Fiction

• "Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy" by Mark Twain

Multimedia (choose 2)

• "To Kill a Mockingbird" (film) - Available in CHS Library
• "Racism/Incident at Little Rock" painting by Domingo Ulloa, 1957
• "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" (images, online)
• "A Class Divided" (PBS online documentary)

Historical Nonfiction

• Transcripts from the Scottsboro Trials PBS Documentary website

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1)

• "Interview with My Bully" by Jennifer Miller
• "Who was Jim Crow?" by Dr. David Pilgrim (essay and photographs, online)
• "The Ghost of Emmett Till" from The New York Times March 22, 2004
• "Morphine: A Southern Lady's Drug" (nonfiction article) - Could not locate, only found teacher-created worksheets/PPTs

The library also recommends:

Documentaries

• "Freedom Riders" by PBS American Experience
• "Scottsboro Boys" by PBS American Experience
• Eyes on the Prize by PBS
• The African Americans by PBS
• "Slavery by Another Name" by PBS

Short Videos:

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Part 1 from Crash Course Literature (12 minutes)
• To Kill a Mockingbird Part 2: Race, Class and Gender from Crash Course Literature (12 minutes)

Websites:

• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia by Ferris University
• Jim Crow Laws compiled by the National Park Service and published by the Jim Crow Museum
• Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown Library of Congress lesson plan with primary sources
• To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective Library of Congress lesson plan with primary sources
• Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Segregation from the Library of Congress
• To Kill a Mockingbird Unit Plan from Village Charter School

Articles:

• To Kill a Mockingbird from Literature and Its Times
• To Kill a Mockingbird from Novels for Students
• Jim Crow Laws from West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Jim Crow Laws from Dictionary of American History
• Jim Crow Laws from International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences