To Kill A Mockingbird

You are about to read To Kill A Mockingbird. The story takes place in Maycomb Alabama. The main character Atticus Finch is asked to defend a black man charged with the rape of a white women. Through the eyes of his children Scout and Jim Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the deep south of the 1930's. To best understand this novel you must understand the author first. 

Your task is to go to various websites to learn the needed background information before starting the novel. Each website will have a short couple questions for you to answer to make sure you understand the material.  The questions and answers should go on a separate  piece of paper.

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/

Questions:

1.Where did the term "Jim Crow" originate from?

2.After the year 1990 what did the term "Jim Crow" become identified with?

3. What supreme Court upheld segregation or separate but equal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Thursday

Questions:

1. What was the date for Black Thursday? 

2.Explain how the Wall Street Crash led to the The Great Depression?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-mass-exodus-plains/

Questions: 

1. During The Great Depression many Dust Bowl farmers packed their families and headed way?

2. Why did the farmers go?

https://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021

Questions:

1.What work is Harper Lee most famous for writing?

2.What famous Civil War general is Harper Lee related to?

Now you will read To Kill  A Mockingbird and hopefully all the websites helped you understand some of the material of the book.