• Look for descriptions of the Mockingbird at the sites below and take notes about what you learned about this bird.

                http://www.holoweb.com/cannon/northergn.htm

                http://www.lsjunction.com/bird.htm scroll down and click on Bird

Then...............

• Explore two of the following websites and complete the accompanying assignments:

         http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/  Click on the Jim Crow Stories on the left of the screen, then people.  Choose a person from the list and listen tohis/her story.  Take notes of what you learn about life under Jim Crow Laws.

OR

Instead of people, click on the interactive map, then go to maps, and explore at least one topic listed under Interactive maps.  Take notes of what you learn.

     http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decs3.html#Special  This will take you to a website with special topics related to "To Kill a Mockingbird".  Browse through the different articles until you find one you like.  Take notes of what you learn.

    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm  At this website, click on A Trial Account of a famous court case in the 1930's.  Take notes about what you learn here.

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• Do a search of American Memory using the keywords The Great Depression and list which collections contain information.

Narrow Search Activiy:

• Do a search of America from the Great Depression to World War Two: Photographys from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 and identfy photographs documenting the African-American experience of 1935-1940.

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II - Historical Understanding of Setting

• View photographs from America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945 in American Memory.

1) 
     a.  From the main home-page, go to the home page for the black and white photogaphs.
--From the black and white photograph home page, go to the State and Country Index.
--From the State and Country Index, go to three locations:
     1.  Alabama--Dallas County--Selma
     2.  Alabama--Eutaw
    3.  Alabama--Greensboro

   b.  After browsing through these images, select one photo for careful analysis.  Use the Visusal Literacy Guide for your analysis.

2)  Browse the prints and photographs Division of the Library of Congress collection entitled "Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information."  A link to this collection is in the descriptive text on the America from the Great Depression to World War II, 1935-1945 home page for the black and white photographs.