To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

Checklist: be sure ALL THREE BODY PARAGRAPHS:

• Begin with a main idea/topic sentence - highlight in orange
• Explain/elaborates the main idea
• Give at least one specific example from the novel - highlight in green
• Give at least one specific example from real life - highlight in blue
• Explain how the examples support the main idea
• Summarize the paragraph with a concluding sentence - highlight in yellow

You will be graded on your ideas, organization, and conventions. (Rubric attached.)

Need more information?

• Click here to download a copy of the interview "Growing Up White in the South in the 1930s."
  
• Need more info about Jim Crow and segregation? Check out this great PBS site!
  
• Here's another great PBS site that deals specifically with the Scottsboro Boys story.