1. Slavery in the Antebellum South
2. African Americans during Reconstruction and Migration to the North 
3. Jim Crow and Segregation 
4. African Americans in and after World War II
5. The Civil Rights Movement and Desegregation 
6. Race Riots of the 1990s 
7. Alt Right Racism in Trump's America

Perspective --> development --> coming of age

lot of new words - slang

Boo Radley

AMERICA

black cook

Maycomb

- small Southern town in Alabama

- people know each other

- myth (cp. Boo Radley), Mrs. Henry Lafayette, 

- closed community

- less educated

- Southern culture is present --> Ante Bellum attitude / culture

- close community

- Great Depression town 

1. Follow the link above and read the text about The New South
2. Answer the 3 questions at the end of the article. Include the photos in your answers. 
3. Connect the results of no. 2 to the situation of the Ewell family of TkaM

TASK:

Compare the status of women in the South today to that of the women presented in the novel?

Point out major differences

• Strong women in the Souther States

Typical Southern stereotype: Southern Belle: middle-high class women, feminine acting,  arrogant

Leah Chase

New Orleans cook, 95 years. Duck's Chase, famous for part in Civil Rights Movement. Faced racism for lobster dishes on the menu. Tried to be creative and innovative. Boxed in her teenage years. 

Darla Moore

South Caroline. Lived with her grandparents, who farmed. Tobacco. Southern Belle stereotype was used by her intentionally. Financially successful (Forbes cover). She gives away money for social projects or universities. If you want to be successful in life you have to choose one path and follow it. Nostalgia hits her hard. Remembers her childhood positively. Family and place are important or her. 

Amanda Child

Singer, songwriter, fiddle player. She was raised by mother as a Souther Belle. She wants to raise her child more independently. She criticizes the music business as a patriarchy. Music only respects her for her looks not for her art. 

• Famous Southern actress: Reese Witherspoon

Stereotype of Souther women are supposed to quiet and demure. The answer was that there existed no one southern stereotype. 

Looks are important for her. Her grandma told her if you dress well you feel well. Family is important for her. Charity. Pays tribute to her grandparents in the name of her fashion brand. She mentions the Southern way of letting neighbors just come by. Her fashion brand will not have an online shop. Notes are handwritten. Southern women still are to be elegant. Her fashion company tries to keep this tradition and incorporate modern things. 

• Situation of women in the South

While Southern States have bad working conditions they offer a good system of child care. This, however, is, like elderly care, rather expensive, which makes women stay at home. So they lose both financial dependence and bad prospects. 

Working mothers suffer from lack of sick pay or inflexibility towards children. 

Womens' rights in the South are complicated. For example, the decision to have children and how many. Abortions are also complicated for there exist harsh restrictions. 

Violence against women is also on the rise, i.e. abuse, stalking, hierarchy in the relationship ... Justice systems does not really work, because color matters still. Lack of education leads to not knowing about their rights, thus simply upholding the traditions. 

Diseases and health issues are a consequence of this status. 

Watch the trial of Tom Robinson

• Focus on the speech by Atticus

• What arguments does he use to defend Tom Robinson?

• Mayella’s actions

• Why not a doctor?

• Bob Ewell: drunkard and left-handed

• Tom Robinson: cannot use his left arm

• Mayella was strangled with a left hand/arm

• Mayella wants to protect herself, because she kissed a black man

• Prejudice: black people lie

• Uses logical explanations for his arguments

• Addresses racial segregation (code of society): whites cannot have sexual attention for blacks, cannot fall in love either,

• Moral arguments substitute logical arguments

• Takes a stance on racial equality

   

• Have a look at both rhetoric and as well as body language and tone of voice

   

• Conclusion: in how far is the trial itself based on hate?

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1. Exchange summaries: give written feedback
2. Discuss in the entire group one sample text
3. Choose one, read it out and discuss

Characters

1. Do a character net on the characters of our book  in a group work --> 3 people 
2. Do a character net together on the black board: note relations and most important aspects of the characters. Reference your notes with book quotes or page numbers
3. Take a picture and send it to me, please

If there is time left:

• Do presentation for Scout (Tamir, Matze, Mohammed)

For the exam:

Summary on a scene with context

Discuss one quote in relation to a characterization ( I tell you on Friday) 

Write an Interview with one of the characters 

Best, 

J. Steinl 

The text you were handed out illustrates the living conditions of former slaves in the American South.

Your main task is to compare the living conditions shown in the excerpt to the conditions of the African American in To Kill A Mockingbird.

To do so  you

1. do Task 1 on the worksheet
2. structure the text in paragraphs and give each an appropriate headline

Then you collect situations from To Kill a Mockingbird together on the black board by

noting a keyword or short phrase and page number

For example:

Face mob violence - p. xy

Finally you compare the living conditions in an essay

1 intro

2 similarities

3 differences

4 conclusion: evaluation of how much has changed from the excerpt to To Kill a Mockingbird

Best,

J. Steinl