'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Jem essay question planning
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Guidance for planning an essay that explores Jem as a character in Harper Lee's novel.
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Jem essay question planning
- 1. To Kill a Mockingbird Jem – exemplar question
- 2. •Choice of 2 essay questions •45 minutes •40 marks available One on character(s) One on theme(s)
- 3. • Knowledge of the text • Personal engagement with the task • Critical style AO1 AO4 • Understanding of the relationship between the text and context in which it was written
- 4. Explore the character of Jem in the novel You must consider the context of the novel in your answer
- 5. • Knowledge of the text • Personal engagement with the task • Critical style AO1
- 6. • What do they say? • What do they do? • What do others say about them? • What do others do that affects them or reflects on them? Character study
- 7. Scout as narrator and Jem’s sister (sibling rivalry) Jem’s broken arm as framing device 10-13 years old in the novel What adjectives would you use to describe Jem as a character? What events support your view?
- 9. Making a turtle come out of his shell The dare & the Radley house Jem at school Ch1 Ch2
- 10. The TreehouseCh3 Ch4 Playing with a tyre, ‘Boo Radley’ and teasing Scout for being ‘such a girl’
- 11. Night mission & Jem’s pantsCh6 Ch7 Cemented tree knot and Jem cries before coming back in
- 12. The snowman Ms Maudie’s fire & offering to help Ch8 Ch11 Jem’s 12th birthday – steam engine & baton Mrs Dubose’s camellia bush The reading session
- 13. Jem ‘grows up’ – ‘alien set of values’Ch12 Ch14 Jem’s and Scout fight (‘his maddening superiority was unbearable these days’)
- 14. Jem following the trial – ‘we got him’Ch17 Ch22 Jem’s reaction to Jim Robinson’s conviction (‘it’s like being a caterpillar in a cocoon…I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world’)
- 15. Jem’s chest hair & 4 kinds of folkCh23 Ch25 Jem stops Scout killing a ‘roly-poly’
- 16. ‘Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed’ Ch26 Ch28 Bob Ewell’s attack following the school pageant
- 17. AO4 • Understanding of the relationship between the text and context in which it was written
- 18. • Growing awareness of inequality and endemic racism in Maycomb • Jim Crow laws / Southern values • The Depression era setting • Fairness & the struggle for justice (Scottsboro Boys / Emmet Till) • Harper Lee & her brother Edwin (6yrs older)