TKAM Research - Aungst S23: Home

In your assigned groups, students will select one of the topics at the bottom of this page (a topic may not be repeated within a block). 

Your research will include:

• Discovering what it was.
• Noting who or what was involved in it. 
• Learning its impact and importance to US History. 
• Determining how it relates to To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. 

Once you have completed your research, you will create a museum exhibit specific to your topic as your final product. We will hold a museum gallery walk on Friday, April 21st to display these projects!

Your exhibit must include:

• At least five text features (including a heading and paragraph or list of pertinent information),
• An interactive feature,
• A primary source document, and
• An artifact.

Museum Exhibit Example

ALABAMA, ALICEVILLE, CAMP ALICEVILLE MUSEUM, WORLD WAR TWO GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR EXHIBIT. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. quest.eb.com/images/300_1827310. Accessed 17 Apr 2023.

1. Jim Crow Laws: History, Guiding Policies, and Impact on African-Americans
2. The Ku Klux Klan: History and Methods of Instilling Fear
3. Plessy v. Ferguson (Supreme Court Case): background and impact on "Separate but Equal"
4. The Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression: The impact on economic prosperity for African-Americans and white Americans in America
5. The Dust Bowl: The impact on Economic Prosperity for African-Americans and white Americans
6. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
7. The Rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany: Hitler's rise to power, the formation of the Nazi Party, and the treatment of African-Americans in the United States when compared to the Jews in Germany
8. Brown v. Board of Education (Supreme Court Case): background and impact on education rights
9. Education of African-Americans in the South after the Civil War and prior to the 1950s (leading up to Brown v. the Board of Education): general history and overview
10. Major criminal court procedures and the Sixth Amendment: the Right to Counsel (Atticus defending Tom Robinson) and the Right to a Jury Trial (Right to a Jury of Your Peers)
11. The Fairness of Capital Punishment: The Eighth Amendment, the Death Penalty, and "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"
12. The Harlem Renaissance: The rebirth of black arts and culture in the North
13. Harper Lee's Biography: How her life connects to the story she wrote
14. The Role of Women in the 1930s South
15. The Pulitzer Prize
16. Food in To Kill a Mockingbird: scuppernogs, ambrosia salad, Lane cake, collard green, cracklin' bread, etc. 
17. Scottsboro Boys Trial
18. Southern African American Churches of the 1930s

Sign up for your topic here! Each topic can only have one group assigned to research it.

1. Choose a topic. (Monday)

2. Research! Learn as much as you can about that topic. Save those resources to your Noodletools project and take notes using the notecard feature. (Monday/Tuesday)

3. Map out your ideas using the Exhibit Planning Sheet. (Wednesday)

4. Gather your materials and assign members to create components of your backdrop and display. (Thursday)

5. Set up your exhibit and enjoy the gallery walk! (Friday)