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The Writings of Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird. J.B. Lippincott, 1960
"Love - In Other Words." Vogue, 15 April 1961, pp. 64-65
"Christmas to Me." McCalls, December 1961, p. 63
"A Word From Harper Lee." in The Screenplay of To Kill a Mockingbird, by Horton Foote. Harcourt Brace, 1964

 

Selected Writings about To Kill a Mockingbird
Bloom, Harold, ed. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. (Chelsea House, 1998)
Chura, Patrick. "Prolepsis and Anachronism: Emmet Till and the Historicity of To Kill a Mockingbird."
     (Southern Literary Journal, 32 [Spring 2000], pp. 1-26.)
Erisan, Fred. "Literature and Place: Varieties of Regional Experience."
     (Journal of Regional Cultures, 1 [Fall/Winter 1981], pp. 144-153)
Foote, Horton. To Kill a Mockingbird; Tender Mercies; and The Trip to Bountiful: three screenplays.
     (Grove Press, 1989)
Hartley, Mary. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
     (Barron's Literature Made Easy, Barron's Educational Series, 1999)
Johnson, Claudia Durst. To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries.
     (Twayne, 1994)
Johnson, Claudia Durst, ed. Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources,
     and Historic Documents. (Greenwood Press, 1994)
Johnson, Claudia Durst. "The Secret Courts of Men's Hearts: Code and Law in Harper Lee's To Kill a
     Mockingbird." (Studies in American Fiction, 19 [Autumn 1991], pp. 129-39)
O'Neill, Terry. Readings on To Kill a Mockingbird. (Greenhaven, 2000)

 

Resources for Parents and Teachers
Beech, Linda. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Scholastic Literature Guide. (Scholastic, 1998)
     j372.64 Parent Teacher
Bullard, Sara. Teaching Tolerance: Raising Open-Minded, Empathetic Children. (Doubleday, 1996)
     j649.7 Parent Teacher, 649.7 B872t
Cintorino, Margaret A. "Getting Together, Getting Along, Getting to the Business of Teaching and Learning."      (English Journal, 82 [January 1993] pp. 23-32)
     Actual taped 10th grade discussions of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Coles, Robert. The Moral Intelligence of Children. (Random, 1997)   j155.418 Parent Teacher
Crowe, Chris. Presenting Mildred Taylor. (Twayne, 1999)   j921 T216c
Friedland, Joyce. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee: A Study Guide. (Learning Links, 2000)
Rochman, Hazel. "The Booklist Interview: Mildred Taylor." (Booklist, September 15, 2001, p.221)
Scales, Pat. "Book Strategies: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor."
     (Book Links, January 1995, pp.12-14)
Schaefer, Brenda. "A Character Comes to Life in the Classroom."
     (English Journal, 78 [October 1989] pp. 69-70)
     How a teacher's role-playing stimulated student interest and provoked a lively discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Teaching Tolerance. (Southern Poverty Law Center)   j051 Parent Teacher magazines.

 

Web Resources
Free Booknotes.com - links to free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides for literary classics

Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred Taylor: Teacher Resource File

Mildred Taylor Study Guide

Teach with Movies - Learning Guide - To Kill a Mockingbird

Teacher CyberGuide: To Kill a Mockingbird

The To Kill a Mockingbird Student Survival Guide

To Kill a Mockingbird: An Historical Perspective

To Kill a Mockingbird & Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now



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