Summer School 2012 English 9

Resources to help you research issues related to Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird are located in this Groupfusion site. They include pathfinders with information on

The Great Depression: The impact of the depression on the southern U.S.

The Great Depression: The causes of the dust bowl and the agricultural devastation during the depression.

Race Relations: Jim Crow laws and impacts on southern Blacks

Civil Rights movement during the 1940’s-1965

Abolitionism and History of slavery in U.S.

These pathfinders are MSWORD documents that you can download to your home computer. They are all located in a folder called To Kill a Mockingbird which is on Groupfusion.

To get to Groupfusion just click on this link http://granadahills.groupfusion.net/ then scroll down to the class marked Summer School click on the plus sign and choose the class called English 9.

In addition to the pathfinders, there is a custom search engine loaded with hundeds of online literary and historical resources. All of these resources have been checked for educational value (as opposed to just a general Google search). The web address (URL) for this custom search engine is http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=015837376780775674803:ti3lleupoly  or you can find the custom search engine on the GHCHS Library Blog located at http://www.vlcspear.blogspot.com/. The custom search engine is located on the right toolbar, choose the box marked To Kill a Mockingbird.