To Kill a Mockingbird

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Historical Context

• The 1930s in the South were shaped in large part by the effects of the Great Depression and the ongoing situation of segregation. Racial tensions were high, and many African Americans faced systemic discrimination in both legal and social settings. This atmosphere of injustice and inequality is a central theme in To Kill a Mockingbird, influencing the characters' experiences and the novel's depiction of morality and fairness.
• A phrase is a group of two or more words that does not include both a subject and its verb. Examples include noun or verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and verbal phrases.
• A clause contains a subject and its verb and may or may not form a complete sentence.
• An independent clause contains a subject and a verb, and it states a complete idea.
• A dependent clause contains a subject and a verb, but it cannot stand on its own. It depends on the presence of an independent clause to make sense.

Lesson 2: Home and School

• Assuaged: lessened or calmed
• Predilection: a preference or liking
• Sojourn: a temporary stay
• Disapprobation: act or state of disapproving
• Asinine: stupid, stubborn
• Peril: serious and immediate danger
• Antagonize: to cause someone to become hostile
• Formidable: inspiring respect through being impressively powerful or capable
• Elusive: difficult to find or catch
• Curtness: rudely brief or abrupt

Lesson 3: The Mystery of Boo

• Hearsay is information gained through rumor or by way of someone else.

Lesson 4: Snow and Fire

• A run-on sentence occurs when two independent clauses are joined together incorrectly, either with a comma or without any punctuation.
• A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. It can be a dependent clause, a prepositional phrase, or a section that's missing a subject or verb.

Lesson 5: Surprising Talent

• A sentence diagram is a way to break a sentence down into grammatical parts and display those parts and the relationships among them.
• A basic sentence diagram consists of a simple subject and simple predicate (verb) separated by a vertical line.
• Commas, periods, question marks, exclamation points, dashes, colons, and semi-colons are not shown on a sentence diagram.

Lesson 6: Separate

• A quotation is a group of words taken directly from a text. A quotation must be attributed to the original author.
• A paraphrase is a rewording of a part of text. The ideas in a paraphrase must also be attributed to the original source.
• A summary is a statement of the main points of a text.

Lesson 7: A Moral Dilemma

• A moral dilemma is a decision between two choices, both with moral downsides.
• elucidate (vb.): explain
• amiably (adv.): good-naturedly
• mollified (adj.): soothed; calmed
• volition (n.): will
• indicted (vb.): formally accused; charged
• acquit (vb.): clear of a charge; find not guilty
• furtive (adj.): sneaky
• brevity (n.): shortness
• notoriety (n.): fame for a bad quality or deed
• irascible (adj.): angry
• connived (vb.): secretly cooperated or agreed to

Lesson 8: Identity

• In a sentence diagram, modifiers are placed on a diagonal line pointing to the word they modify.
• Nouns and pronouns are always placed on a horizontal line in a sentence diagram.

Lesson 9: Order in the Court

• Definitions of legal terms, as found on the handout "Order in the Court."
• To diagram sentences with an inverted word order (the verb comes before the noun), it is best to first rearrange the sentence to normal word order (convert a question into a statement, for example).
• Prepositional phrases can modify nouns, verbs, or other prepositional phrases.

Lesson 10: Equal Rights?

• Jim Crow laws established rules for African Americans that kept them separate from whites, and, in most cases, resulted in inferior treatment.
• If a sentence has a compound subject, it means that there is more than one subject sharing the same predicate. A sentence with a compound predicate has more than one verb sharing the same subject.

Lesson 11: The Mockingbird

• A symbol is a concrete object used to represent an abstract idea.
• A compound sentence contains at least two independent clauses.
• A complex sentence is one that contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

Lesson 12: Wise Words

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Lesson 13: Text and Film

• Filmmakers make many changes to a story when they adapt a novel into a movie form.

Final Project: Oral Book Presentation

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