Harper
Lee's
novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
is set in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. What was it like to live
during the 1930s? How was it different from today? Your
task is to find out what it would be like to live in the 1930s from the
point of view of either 1) a banker
living through The Great
Depression, 2) a farmer living
through
The
Dust
Bowl, 3) a defendant
in
The
Scottsboro Trials, or 4) President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt as he
tried to adopt his New Deal legislation.
You
will
be
graded
on two assignments:
- A two to three page
double-spaced paper where you report what it was like to be you (either
the banker, farmer, defendant, or President Roosevelt) in the
1930s. The rubric for this paper can be found under the Evaluation (Rubric) section of this
webquest.
- A four to six minute oral presentation where you report
your findings out
loud for the class. You must use at least one visual aid in your
presentation
(Powerpoint, a poster, a real artifact from the 1930s, etc.). If
you wish, you may also dress up like your character on the day of your
presentation.
.