2 Websites: TKaM Unit

1. The Student Survival Guide for To Kill a Mockingbird provides something absolutely wonderful: an almost line-for-line annotation of the text.  On the left margin of the site, chapters are broken down in chronological order as the site offers breakdowns of vocabulary for each chapter, as well as historical roots and contexts for the words themselves.  A list of allusions for each chapter is also included, lending a greater understanding to the text that many modern students may lack.
2. A Research Guide for Students is a site that contains exactly what its title would suggest.  As part of the unit on the novel, students will be required to construct a short research paper denoting the historical similarities and disparities between actual Jim Crow-era America and the events of the novel, including the ultimate fate of Tom Robinson.  This website contains guides to using correct in-text citations and works cited pages, as well as complete guides to finding sources for historical evidence.  Samples for every kind of citation and section of a traditional five-paragraph essay are included.