Contextual Framework: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Skinny Poster

Jim Crow laws, the Great Depression, a small Alabama town: the world of To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee's own.

Give students the context behind the American classic.

This skinny poster sets To Kill a Mockingbird in its time, connecting Scout's story to the history and life experiences that shaped Harper Lee.

Poster Shows:

• Historical world events that occurred during the author's early life
• Key events of Harper Lee's life before the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird
• Selected quotations from To Kill a Mockingbird

Go deeper with the full unit. Pair this poster with the Contextual Framework: To Kill a Mockingbird activity book, or get both in the Book and Poster Set.

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About the Author

Johanna Parkhurst grew up on a small dairy farm in northern Vermont before relocating to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She holds degrees from Albertus Magnus College and Teachers College, Columbia University, where she studied the teaching of English. She divides her time between teaching and writing, and she's published three novels for young adults in between obsessing over which lesson plan to use the next day.

Johanna loves traveling, hiking, skiing, and yelling at the TV during football and hockey season.

4P2252: 13 x 38 inches, laminated. ©2017.