Cliff Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird (Cliffs Notes) List Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $2.20 Used From: $1.14 Average Rating:

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A coming-of-age story set in the South, this novel is rich with subjects for conversation. Narrated by Scout, a young girl on the brink of a life-changing event, To Kill a Mockingbird was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1960.

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Most helpful in understanding each chapter of the book. The critical essays at the back of Cliffs Notes and Cliffsnotes Review makes reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" more interesting and challenges one to think about events of that time.

I am taking a criminal justice course and was assigned to review the movie "To Kill a Mocking Bird" from a legal perspective. While this study guide is for a literary purpose, it was most helpful in understanding the concepts and characters in the movie. The book was in great condition.

Read the book and this helped me ace my exam. Great for people who dont like reading or people who have read the book and want to cover or further understand important points in the story.

Unless there are obvious problems with reading, why would a person need Cliff's Notes for this book? It is an incredibly simple, straight forward novel. I am not being offensive, but I am slightly stunned...

This book made my life in English class so much easier! I bought a new version of the book and the detailed summaries and character analysis helped me very much. The booklet is concise but full of information. Thank God for Cliffsnotes!

To Kill A Mockingbird (Barron's Book Notes) List Price: $5.99 Sale Price: $2.66 Used From: $1.37 Average Rating:

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A guide to reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

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The book is about a killer and a man who was accused of raping a woman, The part I didn't like was where the dog was shot, and I like when that little girl who talks like an adult was wearing the ham costume, and the part when she tries to bite Boo. I recommend this book because I think that it was a good story, but if you dont want to read you should just watch the movie. The movie is the same as the book.

I rated To Kill a Mockingbird 5 stars. This book is the "handbook" on racism, sexism, and descrimination against social classes. I enjoyed this book due to the understanding level it was on. I think because it was though the eyes of a young child they made it very plain and comprehendable but because Scout was smart and intelligent, Harper Lee could still use knowledge about a second grader's. I think this book helps teenagers especially deal with the idea that racism and sexism will never completely go away but that they can still deal with it to the best of their ability. I think the author definatly intended this book for young adults. If a young child read this book, it would fly over their heads and leave them with more questions than answers. The language is inappropriate for most children but yet is understood by young adults. This book helps teenagers in many ways.

To Kill A Mockingbird is filled with moral lessons, adventure and humor. The children's growth and maturity thoughout this story is true to life. Their relationships with each other, their father, neighbors and other relatives engage the reader and keep you wanting more whether those relationships are positive or negative. The characters and the descriptions of the neighborhood and town are vivid. When reading this book, one becomes linked with the characters as if those townfolk were one's own. It can't be put down until it is finished. And the finish is worth the wait.

I've just begun to read this book. I was assigned it for English class. Usually, the books we are assigned are old and boring, and we have to analize them until we hate the book with vengence. This book is surrounded in mystery and it acctually helps to analize it. I suggest this book for grades 6-10 as an introduction to a high school English class. I enjoyed it greatly and think anyone who reads it, young or old will enjoy it :)

I am currently reading "To Kill aMockingbird". At first I didn't like it but now I love it! We have to read it for my English class. When we are done we have to make a map of Maycomb. So if any teacher need suggestions ths book gives great detail on where everyone lives and things like that. I love the way Harper Lee expresses herself in her character's. I Love the way she writes! Thanks for your time!

A Guide for Using To Kill a Mockingbird in the Classroom (Literature Unit (Teacher Created Materials)) List Price: $8.99 Sale Price: $4.71 Used From: $4.77 Average Rating:

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This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book presents an exciting approach to teaching well-known literature! It includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, cross-curriculum activities, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and many ideas for culminating and extending the novel.

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Over the years I have used teacher created resources for teaching different books. I have to admit this one is not one of the better ones on the market. What was this author thinking? I have taught `Mockingbird" to numerous students over the last 20 years and even used it as one of the books for my masters in reading. In all the years I have never found the connection of "Bloody Mary" as well as other terms on pg. 26 in the book. Also pg.13 is still having me shake my head. There are much better books out there for teaching this WONDERFUL book.

This year, I taught To Kill a Mockingbird to my freshman students for the first time. I purchased this literature unit to help me plan. While it has several activities that touch on basic literary terms, I used most of the activities as "fillers" for time. I think it will be more helpful with lower level students and not honors classes. Still worth purchasing; I'm always happy to have too many resources.

Excellent product, easy to use, ready for immediate classroom use! Well organized by chapter and provides short quizzes for groups of chapters in the novel to ensure kids are reading. Excellent connections, journal activities that go well beyond the literal comprehension of the novel. A must have!

This book is my everyday tool in class and at home. I used it to help my nephew in book report and for me to teach it to my students. Great help.

There are several reading strategies and activities to motivate your readers in this guide book. I think it is very useful for those who may be teaching this novel for the first time and a new tool to get a new perspective on the novel for seasoned educators. I found that it had some great ideas, Anticipation Guides, project ideas, and research topics.

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To Kill a Mockingbird List Price: $12.99 Sale Price: $5.60 Used From: $1.64 Average Rating:

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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out." Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber

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Harper Lee's book is perhaphs one of the most moving, touching nd genuinley charming tales in literature. The central themes, prejudice, honor and bravery, could come off as moralistic or dry in the hands of someless skilled, but Lee delivers with pure warmth. The grave trial of Tom Robinson (falsely charged with rape by the a family that is the epitome of 'white trash') is balanced with the voice and humorous insights of Scout, the novel's nine-year-old narrator: for all of the import of the trial and the town's divisveness on the race issue, we have Scout's insights, when watching Calpurnia cook, that "there may be some skill in being a girl after all." Each character is brilliantly brought to life, from the graceful Miss Maudie to the enigmatic Boo Radley, but perhapps none more than Atticus Finch. Perhaps the most honorable character in literature, Atticus (an attorney) takes the unwinnable task of defending Tom Robinson because if he did not, "he would not able to look his children in the eye." Atticus does what is right regardless of personal sacrrifice. This wisdom and heart is immedialtey evident in Jem and Scout, who, almost insincitvely carry themselves with the same honor and sense of right. But what makes this book great is not just the bravery in the face of hate or the dignity of the Finchs. What makes the book memorable is the charm and humor: the games the children played to coax Boo Radley out of his home; the children's keen observations of the adults around them; and the puppy love tale of Scout and Dill. With each page the characters and the setting come alive and cannot help but evoke a smile. This is a book to read again and again, revisiting just how wonderful it is.

The copy I received was filled with hand written notes throughout the text. I was very disappointed in this purchase.

I read this in high school, it was the best book I had ever read. I read it again to my daughter when she was 11 and once again loved it. There was so much more to it than I remembered. It is such a stunning masterpiece on so many levels, this is one book worth reading again and again. My daughter and I have put it on our "books you must read in your lifetime" list (just four books long at this point). This is a powerful book and one that will stay with you a good long time.

I had a bad upbringing, as far as reading went. Most of my teachers let me read whatever they wanted, and the few that assigned anything to me took the path of the-most-boring-is-best. I therefore was made to read "1984", which was over my 14-year-old head, and "Silas Marner", which the whole class thought was boring and badly written. In the last few years I've been slowly catching up with those classics I should have read when I was younger. I tried Scott Fitzgerald (and decided after "The Great Gatsby"--which I liked--not to venture any further), "The Catcher in the Rye" which I expected to hate and liked anyway, "A Confederacy of Dunces" which had me rolling in the aisles, and even Jane Austen, who I enjoyed a great deal more than I expected. Now I turn to "To Kill a Mockingbird". It's one of those books that everyone but me has apparently read. So I guess it's time I caught up with everyone else. Janet Louise "Scout" Finch is a little girl, during the events of the story. I got the impression that the author was imagining Scout as a slightly older girl, writing this story down for posterity. She has an older brother, and the two of them live with their father, a lawyer, in a small town in Alabama. Their mother's dead. In the summer, a cousin named Dill visits them and the three of them play together. Supposedly, Dill is based on Harper Lee's real childhood friend, Truman Capote, but that's neither here nor there. They are the typical rural children of the era, playing in the street, and spreading rumors and innuendo about their neighbors. At the end of the block there's a strange family with a reclusive son who's in his thirties, but never leaves the house or says anything to anyone, named Boo Radley. Scout knows her father's a lawyer, and has knowledge of a few things with regards to laws, but she's never really experienced a trial or anything. A third of the way into the book, when you're wondering if it's ever going to really have a plot, kids start to call Scout's father a n----r-lover. Ms. Lee doesn't bother with the hyphens. It turns out that what they're referring to is the fact that Scout's dad, whose name is Atticus Finch, has been assigned to defend a local black man who has been accused of raping a white woman. In Alabama in the 1930's, this is a capitol offense, and he'll surely be executed if he's convicted. So of course there's the obligatory lynch mob (one of the strongest scenes in the book) where Atticus faces down the less-than-brilliant citizens of the town, followed by the courtroom scene that's rather short, given that the trial of course only takes one day. I won't give away the ending, but the author confronts the obvious issues of racism and class in the 1930's south with a great deal more subtlety and nuance than I expected, and the ending, if a bit surprising, is also very satisfying. I do have one negative thing to say about this book: it killed the career of what could have been a great novelist. At least that's my opinion. Most any author wants to think the book they're working on is better than the last one they wrote, and this thing won pretty much every award it could, short of the Nobel Prize for literature. It's one of the best-loved books of the last century. It's my belief that this success was a double-edged sword: on the one hand the acclaim was probably pretty heady, but on the other hand, how do you top something as successful as this? It's almost inevitable that a second book wouldn't win another Pulitzer. Anything less would be a step down. Nevertheless, this is a wonderful book, truly great, and I recommend it highly.

Even in this day and age, this book provides a tremendous opportunity to teach the age-old message of "do the right thing" and "do unto others"! Even kids of the current generation ar emoved by this story. Young and old alike will find it a valuable read ( including better_bargains.com who made purchasing this book a nightmare).

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To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition) List Price: $19.98 Sale Price: $12.25 Used From: $10.14 Average Rating:

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When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Atticus Finch will def

Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to call this an important "message" movie that should be required viewing for children and adults alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything but stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defense of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. While his children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Philip Alford), learn the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, they also learn to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbor Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his brilliant, almost completely nonverbal screen debut). What emerges from this evocative, exquisitely filmed drama is a pure distillation of the themes of Harper Lee's enduring novel, a showcase for some of the finest American acting ever assembled in one film, and a rare quality of humanitarian artistry (including Horton Foote's splendid screenplay and Elmer Bernstein's outstanding score) that seems all but lost in the chaotic morass of modern cinema. --Jeff Shannon

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Binding: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Brand: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Original Release Date: 1962-12-25
Actors:

• Gregory Peck
• John Megna
• Frank Overton
• Rosemary Murphy
• Ruth White

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I had seen this movie many years ago and was happy to find it for an affordable price on Amazon. This is an excellent movie, thought-provoking and addresses prejudice--whether against the color of our skin or believing the rumors about others. I would recommend this to anyone.

Althought the book by Harper Lee gives more detail, this is one of the greatest Gregory Peck movies of all time. A very well done piece of cinematic tribute to an awesome story.

What can you say about this movie that hasn't already been said? Gregory Peck offers what may be his definitive role (he won the Best-Actor Oscar for it after four fruitless nominations) and, perhaps, the most famous dad in film; as various critics have said, not even Peck himself was as good a father as Atticus Finch, but Atticus is probably what every dad wants to be. Though slow in pace, the movie is never boring, and the picture it presents of the Deep South (Maycomb Co., Ala.) in the days before Martin Luther King is both fascinating and disturbing. If, like me, you find yourself puzzled over why the Ewells faked a rape and accused Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) of the crime, your best bet is to read the book To Kill a Mockingbird, which also provides a lot of background about the Finches and their neighbors. Robert Duvall, today one of our most respected actors, makes his first credited big-screen appearance (with never a word of dialogue) as "Boo" Radley, the mysterious and believed-insane neighbor of the Finches. This is a movie every child should see and every adult should know.

Even though our children all had to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and write a review on it, we did not read the book nor see the movie until the 50th anniversary of the book. We enjoyed the book and have watched the movie several times. The variance between the book and the movie is insignificant. Excellent on both!

I was taken back by how slow moving this movie was. I believe due to how old this is that we have little tolerance for something that plods along like this did. In its time it was obviously cutting edge due to the content. I found the children very annoying during most of the first half of the movie. The only parts that I truly enjoyed were when it got to the trial and from then on to the end. I can see why Gregory Peck won an award but the movie as a whole was very, very slow.