To Kill A Mockingbird: What modern issue relates to either education, bravery, or prejudice...?

Question

What modern issue relates to either education, bravery, or prejudice that I can base my summer reading power point project around? I need to connect one of those themes with an issue/event that I've got to research, and do a power point explaining my understanding of these things.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Possibly do something about how education has changed society and decreased racism and  prejudice.  Or you could do the reverse, and pick some incident in the news today to show that racism and  prejudice are alive and well now, even though it may be more hidden that it was in the times represented in the novel.

There are numerous on line resources to help you with this novel, and with questions such as this one.  Many of them offer chapter summaries, list of characters, character sketches, discussions of themes, setting, imagery, and symbolism, etc.  Do a search for “study guides for To Kill a Mockingbird” etc., and you will find many sites.  Also, do a search here on yahoo answers for To Kill a Mockingbird and you will find a wealth of information.  

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tk...

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/gcse/...

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/