To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Study

About this resource

Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird and writing the questions the night before each reading? This novel study for 9th and 10th grade does that work. It is made for use with the novel by Harper Lee (the book is not included; students need their own copy, any edition). The whole book is split into twelve sets of chapters, Part One (chapters 1 to 11) in four sets and Part Two (chapters 12 to 31) in eight. For every set: a question page with five questions on ruled lines, four short answers and one Think Deeper. For every two sets: a page of ten words to look up. Around them: a setting and context page, a Scout tracker, a page for the people around her, four key symbols to find and analyze, four themes, sentence starters, and an essay planner with three prompts and a lined draft page. Every question, symbol and word has an answer key.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (50 pages)

• 28 student pages, every one with a name line, one instruction, and ruled lines or table cells with room to write
• Before You Read: 5 statements to agree or disagree with, revisited after the last chapter
• Setting and Context: a short fact box (Maycomb, the 1930s) and a table of 6 places to fill in as the class reads
• 12 question pages, one per set of chapters: 60 questions in all, 3 ruled lines under a short answer, 5 under each of the 12 Think Deeper questions
• 6 word pages: 60 words to look up, 10 per page, with columns for the page found, the student's own meaning and their own sentence
• Scout, Part by Part: a character tracker with a row for each set of chapters
• The People Around Scout: Atticus, Jem, Dill, Calpurnia, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Bob Ewell (7 characters)
• Key Symbols, 2 pages: 4 symbols to find in the book (the mockingbird, the knothole gifts, the mad dog, the Radley porch), with where, what it stands for, why it matters
• Themes: 4 themes defined (prejudice, courage, empathy, justice); the student chooses 2 and finds evidence for each
• Sentence Starters: 13 starters for claims, evidence, explanation, then-and-now and endings
• Essay Planner with 3 prompts (claim, three pieces of evidence, so what, ending) and an Essay Draft page
• 10 answer keys: every question (three sets per page), the key symbols, the 60 words in two keys, the people and themes, the tracker and Before You Read pages, and the setting page, each with a notes box for your own wording
• A Reading Plan: one-line synopsis of each set of chapters, its study pages, a blank for your dates
• 1 reading log (one row per student page), 1 class grid (15 students), 1 filled example for an invented student
• 1 family page with a discussion question for each part of the book, 1 phrase bank of 16 feedback and conference starters
• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here and terms of use

Built For Grades 9 And 10

No mascots and no clip art. Clean pages, body text at 11 point or larger, a numbered question and ruled lines under it. The direction on every question page is the same: answer in complete sentences, with a detail from the chapter. The word pages ask students to look each word up and use it, and to write the page where they met it. Part Two centers on a trial and on race and prejudice in the 1930s South. The questions ask what the book shows and leave the discussion to your class; preview those chapters and decide how you will frame them.

Type In, Or Print

The name, date and period lines, every ruled line, the word, setting and character tables, the reading log, class grid and family page are type-in fields in any PDF reader. Every page prints clean in black and white. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

High school ELA in 9th and 10th grade, resource rooms and co-taught classes, homeschool families and tutors reading this novel in any month. Some questions are about events; the open ones have a "look for" key, so check the chapter notes against the edition in your room before you grade.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A complete novel study with the record-keeping around it. There is no rubric or point value printed on any student page; the log has a blank for your own wording. It is not a test, a reading-level screener or a clinical tool, and it makes no claim about any student's grade level or rate of progress. The novel itself is not included and none of its text is reproduced.

This resource is not affiliated with or endorsed by Harper Lee, her estate, her publisher, or the owners of To Kill a Mockingbird.