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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD STUDENT ACTIVITY BOOKLET
Click on the chapters below that you wish to print. These documents require Adobe Acrobat (click here to download Acrobat Reader) Chapter 1: What is a Movie? Reading, Writing, and Critical-Thinking Activities Group Activity 1-1, Enrichment: Research a Moving-Image Timeline
Reading Activity 1-2: The Front of the Bus (Parts 1, 2, and 3)
Creative Writing Activity 1-3: Cigar Box Memories
Reading Activity 1-4: “A Tired Old Town”
Reading Activity 1-5: Parallel Story Lines
Prewriting Activity 1-6: Organizing Your Thoughts
Group Activity 1-7: National Film Registry Nominations
Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizer 1-1: How Do Filmmakers Create Symbols?
Graphic Organizer 1-2: Two Ways to Read a Film
Graphic Organizer 1-3: Narrative Structure
Graphic Organizer 1-4: Mirror Images
Graphic Organizer 1-5: Film-Criticism Ladder
Graphic Organizer 1-6: Film Layers
Graphic Organizer 1-7: How a Film Slowly Ages and Dies
Screening Sheets Screening Sheet 1-1: What Is a Movie?
Screening Sheet 1-2: The Front of the Bus
Screening Sheet 1-3: To Kill a Mockingbird Opening Credits (Parts 1 and 2)
Screening Sheet 1-4: Reading Together at Night
Screening Sheet 1-5: “Like Shooting a Mockingbird”
Chapter 2: The Filmmaking Process Reading, Writing and Critical-Thinking Activities Reading Activity 2-1: The Five-Step Adaptation Process
Classifying Activity 2-2: The Trial
Reading Activity 2-3, Enrichment: Reinventing a Scene
Reading Activity 2-4: The Actor’s Toolbox
Reading Activity 2-5: What to Include, What to Exclude
Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizer 2-1: What Happens During Pre-Production?
Graphic Organizer 2-2: What Happens During Production?
Graphic Organizer 2-3: What Happens During Post-Production?
Graphic Organizer 2-4: Putting It All Together — Three Stages of Production
Graphic Organizer 2-5: What Is Production Design?
Graphic Organizer 2-6: What Does the Production Designer Do?
Graphic Organizer 2-7: What Is Cinematography?
Graphic Organizer 2-8: What Does the Cinematographer Do?
Graphic Organizer 2-9: What Is Film Editing?
Graphic Organizer 2-10: What Does the Film Editor Do?
Graphic Organizer 2-11: What Does the Music Composer Do?
Screening Sheets Screening Sheet 2-1: The Director’s Vision (Parts 1 and 2)
Screening Sheet 2-2: Creating Worlds (Parts 1 and 2)
Screening Sheet 2-3: From Storyboard to Screen
Screening Sheet 2-4: Visions of Light (Parts 1 and 2)
Screening Sheet 2-5: Actors’ Choices (Parts 1, 2, and 3)
Screening Sheet 2-6: Editing Shot-by-Shot
Screening Sheet 2-7: Music and Meaning (Parts 1 and 2)
Chapter 3: Film Language and Elements of Style Reading, Writing, and Critical-Thinking Activities Visual-Thinking Activity 3-1: Watson and the Shark
Visual-Thinking Activity 3-2: What’s in a Frame?
Visual-Thinking Activity 3-3: Shots and Significance
Group Activity 3-4: Properties of Light
Visual-Thinking Activity 3-5: Light and Shadow
Group Activity 3-6, Enrichment: Movement as Language
Group Activity 3-7: Time, Continuity, and Meaning
Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizer 3-1: Camera-to-Subject Distances
Graphic Organizer 3-2: Camera-to-Subject Angles
Graphic Organizer 3-3: Multiple Cameras = One Shot
Graphic Organizer 3-4: What Is Light Intensity?
Graphic Organizer 3-5: Three Ways to Control Light
Graphic Organizer 3-6: What Is Contrast?
Graphic Organizer 3-7: What Are Depth and Texture?
Graphic Organizer 3-8: Camera Movements
Graphic Organizer 3-9: Editing Decisions
Graphic Organizer 3-10: What Is Music Composition?
Graphic Organizer 3-11: What Is Sound?
Graphic Organizer 3-12: Visible and Invisible Sounds
Graphic Organizer 3-13: Point of View (POV)
Screening Sheets Screening Sheet 3-1: What’s in Motion, the Camera or the Subject?
Screening Sheet 3-2: Musical Options for Lawrence of Arabia (Parts 1, 2, and 3)
Screening Sheet 3-3: Sound Bytes
Sheet 3-4: Jem and Bob Ewell
Screening Sheet 3-5: The Hole in the Old Tree Trunk
Screening Sheet 3-6: The Longest Journey
Chapter 4: Historical and Cultural Contexts Reading, Writing, and Critical-Thinking Activities Reading Activity 4-1: Is It History or Is It Culture?
Reading Activity 4-2: Motion Picture Association Certificate of Approval
Reading Activity 4-3: The Movie Review Then and Now
Reading Activity 4-4: Jim Crow Laws
Reading Activity 4-5: News Article, 1938
Reading Activity 4-6: Lynchings in America (map)
Reading Activity 4-7, Enrichment: President Kennedy’s Notes on Birmingham Violence
Reading Activity 4-8: Atticus’s Closing Argument
Reading Activity 4-9: The Arrest
Reading Activity 4-10: “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
History Writing Activity 4-11: Document-Based Questions (DBQs) (Parts 1, 2, and 3)
Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizer 4-1: A Film’s Historical and Cultural Timeline
Graphic Organizer 4-2: Depicting Characters in Film
Graphic Organizer 4-3: Characteristics of a Film Drama
Graphic Organizer 4-4: Writing About History
Screening Sheets Screening Sheet 4-1: Coming to a Theater Near You
Screening Sheet 4-2: Analyzing Film Depictions (Parts 1 and 2)
Screening Sheet 4-3: Atticus’s Closing Argument
Screening Sheet 4-4: Short Documentary — The Letter
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