To Kill a Mockingbird - teaching resource

To Kill a Mockingbird – Complete GCSE Teaching Unit (247-slide PowerPoint + 40 Worksheets)

Deliver high-quality English Literature lessons with this fully resourced To Kill a Mockingbird unit of work, based on Harper Lee’s iconic novel. Designed for GCSE English Literature, this comprehensive teaching resource contains everything you need to explore the text in depth.

This To Kill a Mockingbird teaching pack includes:

• A 247-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation
• 40 printable worksheets
• A complete lesson-by-lesson unit overview
• Structured four-part lessons (starter, introduction, development, plenary)

All slides and resources are fully adaptable, allowing you to personalise and differentiate the content to suit your class's needs.

What’s covered in the unit:

• Context: Harper Lee’s biography, 1930s Alabama, Jim Crow laws, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s/60s
• Character analysis: Scout Finch, Jem, Atticus, Boo Radley, Dill, Bob Ewell, and Miss Maudie
• Themes: justice, racial inequality, moral courage, prejudice, class, innocence, and growing up
• Language and style: analysis of Harper Lee’s use of dialogue, narrative voice, and descriptive techniques

This detailed resource helps students develop key analytical and writing skills, supporting them to understand the novel's literary, social and historical significance.

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