To Kill a Mockingbird Discovery Guide

This Discovery Guide workbook covers comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar & enrichment ideas related to To Kill a Mockingbird. As students read, they complete worksheets, writing topics, hands-on activities and field trips.

The Discovery Guide is broken down into weekly units in which students read a section of the novel and answers comprehension questions pertaining to those chapters. Each unit contains a variety of critical thinking activities including projects, drawing, writing assignments, and a puzzles which correlate to chapters in the novel. Writing assignments apply concepts in the story to the student's life and many passages are chosen to emphasize Biblical lessons that relate to the story.

Total Language Plus Discovery Guides are designed to take about 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Depending on the number of activities students perform and the degree of emphasis placed on composition skills, this study guide may serve as your complete Language Arts curriculum.

Barbara's notes: This Pulitzer Prize winning novel is of must-read caliber. It is masterfully written, and is on most high school required reading lists. Caution: inappropriate language.

Book Summary — 281 pages

Book Category — Adventure

Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird — Relationships

Setting — Maycomb, Alabama

Novel Study Highlights — 6 units

Spelling-Vocabulary — Medium

Critical Thinking — Difficult

Biblical Focus — Christian virtues

Related Studies — Alabama history and geography, civil government, communities, traditions, civil rights

Focus — Theme, descriptions, simile, metaphor, personification, dialogue, characterization