Annotated Bibliography
Bernard, Catherine. Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird. San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, 2003.
Golden, John. Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. This book has a lot of practical teaching ideas for using film in the classroom.
Kilman, Carrie. “The Gender Spectrum” Teaching Tolerance. Number 44: Summer 2013 Retrieved on July 12, 2015 at 11:05am from http://www.tolerance.org/gender-spectrum.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. For the page numbers I used the original edition of the book.
Lorber,Judith. “Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender” in Global Perspectives on Gender & Work edited by Jacqueline Goodman, 15-32. Lanham, MD: Rowen & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2010. This is an excellent introduction to the concept of gender as a social construct.
Mercado, Gustavo. The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition. Amsterdam: Focal Press/Elsevier, 2011. The general audience of this book is filmmakers, but the author breaks down concepts with examples so well that it is also quite useful for teachers of film analysis.
Meyer, Michael J. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. This text would be particularly useful for English teachers seeking other ways to analyze the novel.
Ryle, Robyn Rae. Questioning Gender: A Sociological Exploration. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE/Pine Forge Press, 2012. This is an excellent introduction to examining gender sociologically. It is a college-level text but the author’s voice and examples lend themselves to excerpted use in a high school classroom.
Sikov, Ed. Film Studies: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. This is a great primer on reading film.
Symington, Alison. “Intersectionality: A Tool for Gender and Economic Justice. Women’s Rights and Economic Change. No. 9, August 2004. Retrieved on July 7, 2015 at https://lgbtq.unc.edu/sites/lgbtq.unc.edu/files/documents/intersectionality_en.pdf. The concept of “intersectionality” is relatively new and this source is a wonderful primer on what it is and why it should be used.
Teasley, Alan B. and Ann Wilder. Reel Conversations: Reading Films with Young Adults. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997. Along with the Golden book, this book has a lot of practical teaching ideas for using film in the classroom.
To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan. 1962; Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures) Streamed through amazon.com.
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