Tasks for Sociologist: To Kill a Mockingbird

Tasks for the Sociologist – To Kill a Mockingbird

PRESENTATION #1: Clothing of the 1930s

Corset

Find information about the following types of clothing and be ready to describe them to your group. If possible, bring photos or pictures to show them.

bowtie (p.80) [p. 107]
breeches (p. 81) [p. 108]
corset (p. 9) [p. 11]
flour-sack skirt (p. 16) [p. 22]
knee-pants (p.80) [p. 107]
overalls
patent leather shoes (p. 118) [p. 156]
petticoat (p. 118) [p. 156]
pumps (p. 16) [p. 21]
sash (p. 118) [p. 156]
union suit

Interview Task

Click on the Interview with Mildred Opitz.
What does she say about the use of flour sacks?
(You may use this for your Interview Report on your Study Guide.)

PRESENTATION #1: Clothing of the 1930s

Look at the photo of the Maxwell couple. Describe their hats.

Look at the photo of the Maxwell family from 1931. Describe their clothes and hairstyles.

Photos retrieved February 14, 2005, from <http://jamesmskipper.tripod.com/jamesmskipper/MaxPage5.html>.

PRESENTATION #1: Food

The following food, except for open-faced sandwich, is typical of the South.
Find out what each food is and, if possible, photos or even recipes.

open-faced sandwich
ambrosia
biscuits
butterbeans
charlotte
collards
cornbread
divinity
hickory nuts
Lane cake
lemonade
turnips

See Foodway for some kinds of food that were invented during the 1930s.
Which one is the most popular in Japan?

Internet Task: Food

Find the Diary of Carmon Belle Drilling (you have to scroll down).

Make a list of all the food she talks about her family growing, making, and eating.

What did the mercantile store sell?

In what did students carry their lunch to school?

What food did they take on a picnic?

What is one more interesting incident she writes about in her story?

PRESENTATION #2: Religious and Church Terms

Find the meaning of the following words and explain them to your group.
(Some of these are used in Chapter 4, pp. 44-45 [p. 59], and some in Chapter 21, pp. 120-122 [pp. 159-163].)

Baptist
Bible
communion
congregation
foot-washing
Gospel
hell
hymn
Methodist
offering (collection)
Protestant
pulpit
Scripture
sermon
sin
steeple
the Kingdom come
the next world

Useful website: Foot-washing

The following pictures of Jesus were common in Protestant churches.
Show them to your group before reading Chapter 12.


The Light of the World by Hunt	Garden of Gethsemane (p. 120) [p. 159]

Interview Task

Listen to the interview of Carla Due about churches.
What does she say about churches in the 1930s?
(You may use this for your Interview Report on your Study Guide.)

Developed by CA Edington, Spring, 2005; revised Spring, 2012
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan