To Kill a Mockingbird and The Hero’s Journey
This lesson plan interprets Harper Lee’s wonderful book, To Kill a Mockingbird, through the lens of The Hero’s Journey and is meant to be used as enrichment to your unit.
To Kill a Mockingbird received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 and was made into a movie. It has been read in countless classrooms.
The Hero’s Journey is ancient, going back at least as far as Homer if not earlier. Yet it is as modern as Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings. In modern t