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To Kill a Mockingbird Online Worksheet

Write brief answers during viewing. Use character choices and scene evidence for your analysis.

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Before viewing

1. How might a child narrator notice something adults accept as normal?

2. What is the difference between a rumor about someone and evidence about that person?

Part A · Childhood assumptions

3. How do Scout, Jem, and Dill initially imagine Boo Radley?

4. What do the gifts in the tree suggest about that first impression?

5. How does Atticus respond to the children’s treatment of Boo?

6. What does the mad-dog episode reveal about Atticus?

7. Why does Atticus’s defense of Tom Robinson create hostility?

Part B · The jail and the trial

8. What danger does the group at the jail pose?

9. How does Scout’s conversation affect the confrontation?

10. What does the trial reveal about Tom’s left arm?

11. Why does Bob Ewell’s handedness matter to Atticus’s argument?

12. How does Tom explain his visits to Mayella’s home?

Part C · Verdict and changing perspective

13. Why does Tom’s expression of pity provoke a hostile response?

14. What verdict does the jury reach?

15. How does Jem react to the verdict?

16. What changes when Boo protects the children after the attack?

After viewing

17. Choose one moment when prejudice affects how evidence is judged.

18. How does Scout’s view of Boo change by the ending?

19. Whose perspective receives less attention than Scout’s or Atticus’s?

20. What would you compare between a novel passage and its film scene?

Final written response

How does Scout’s perspective reveal the gap between fairness as an ideal and fairness in practice? Write a paragraph with a clear claim, evidence from two scenes, and reasoning. End with one limitation of the film’s portrayal or one question for further study.

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