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KillYear 10 English To Kill a Mockingbird Web Quest
Year 10 English To Kill a Mockingbird Web Quest

7/29/2013

7/29/2013

Connor Miles
Draft Due: 12th August Final Due: 20th of August

Connor Miles
Draft Due: 12th August Final Due: 20th of August

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Title………………………………………………………. 1

Novel blurb………………………………………………

Scenario…………………………………………………

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

To kill a mocking bird is a novel written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. It was immediately successful, and has become a classic of modern literature. The plot is loosely on Harper Lee’s observations of her family and neighbours, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
The story is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, who is always called by her nickname, Scout. Scout starts to explain the circumstances that led to the broken arm that her older brother, Jem, sustained many years earlier; she begins by recounting her family history. The first of her ancestors to come to America was a fur-trader and apothecary named Simon Finch, who fled England to escape religious persecution.

In this web quest you will investigate into three different topics related to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird these are: (i) “The White Knights” of the Ku Klux Klan (ii) Reverend Wade Watts (iii)

Webpage 1 The Ku Klux Klan http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/default.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=kkk Question 1: What Was the Klan’s presumptions of Negros?

Question 2: When Was the Klan Founded and why?

Question 3: Who is it that
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