Transcript Mockingbird Chapter 1

TKAM
Chapter
1
Based on chapter 1, Scout seems to
understand much of what’s going
on around her.
• Explain your stance using evidence from the
book. This evidence does not have to be
directly cited. No more than ½ page.
1. Topic Sentence (rephrase prompt)
2. Assertion (introduce evidence)
3. Evidence (example from book)
4. Elaboration (explain quote)
5. Elaboration (if necessary)
6. Conclusion (restate/reword topic sentence)
• Lawyers, I suppose, were
children once.
-Charles Lamb
Pg.3
• Why do you
think the
children call
their father
his name,
Atticus?
Pg. 6
•Describe the setting.
• The narrator describes the
cook, Calpurnia, on the bottom
of page 6 and top of page 7.
Does this description seem
reliable? Why/why not?
Page 7
• Compare and contrast Scout
and Jem’s feelings about
their mother.
Pg. 7
• How old is
Scout as she
begins the
story?
• Why would Lee
choose to have the
story told through the
eyes of a child? What
are the
benefits/setbacks to
this?
Pg. 9
• Make a prediction about
Dill’s father. Why does
Dill blush?
Pg. 10-11
• How true can we assume
the rumors about the
Radley place are? Why?
Pg 12-13
• Explain what Mr. Radley
is like as a father.
• “Atticus said no, it wasn’t that
sort of thing, that there were
other ways of making people
into ghosts” (Lee14).
• What does this mean?
• “Miss Stephanie Crawford said he
was so upright he took the word of
God as his only law, and we believed
her, because Mr. Radley’s posture
was ramrod straight” (Lee 14).
• What does this statement show you about
Scout?
Pg. 17
• Reread the discussion about
making a turtle come out.
Again, what does this show
about Scout?
• Based on chapter 1,
Scout seems to
understand much of
what’s going on around
her.
TKAM
CHAPTERS
2&3
Page 21 & 22
• Describe Miss Caroline.
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What’s she look like?
Where is she from?
How old is she?
What’s with her teaching method?
•Explain how
Scout (Jean
Louise)
learned to
read and
write.
•What does Miss
Caroline think of
this?
Page 23/24
Page 24
• Dewey Decimal system?
Meet Melvil Dewey (1851-1931)
• Librarian
• Created the
Dewey
Decimal
System
Meet John Dewey (1859-1952)
•Education
Reformist.
•Believed that
students thrive in an
environment where
they are allowed to
experience and
interact with the
curriculum.
Page 25
• Describe Walter Cunningham.
• Education? Race? Class?
Page 26
• “Miss Caroline,
he’s a
Cunningham”
(Lee 26).
• “You’re shaming
him, Miss
Caroline” (Lee
28).
• What’s this show
Pages 28 & 29
• What’s Miss Caroline do as a result of
Scout speaking up on Walter’s behalf?
What did Scout THINK she was going
to do?
• Was this punishment justified?
Page 29
• At the end of the
chapter, Miss
Caroline is left
crying at her
desk. Where’d
she go wrong?
Chapter
3
Page 31
• What does Walter’s dialect
show you about his education?
• Why can’t he pass 1st grade?
Page 33
• “He aint company, Cal, he’s
just a Cunningham!”
• What’s this show you about
Scout?
Scout and Cal: Love/Hate
• Who was right in
the fight between
Cal and Scout?
• What does Scout’s
outburst show you
about her?
Page 34-35
• What’s a cootie?
• Describe Burris Ewell.
• Is he smart?
Page 38 Scout and Cal:
Love/Hate
• How has Scout and Cal’s
relationship changed?
• Why do you think Cal offers Scout
a treat?
MIQ PAGE 39
• First of all, he said, “if you can
learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll
get along a lot better with all
kinds of folks. You never really
understand a person until you
consider things from his point a
view– until you climb into his
skin and walk around in it”
Page 40-41
• Describe the
Ewell family.
• Where do they
live?
• What’s Mr. Bob
Ewell like?
Page 41-42
• Examine
how
Atticus
speaks to
his 6 year
old
daughter,
Why do
you think
he does
Chapter
4
Page 44-46
• In the tree…
Dill’s Father: Page 48
• Taller than Atticus
• Black pointy beard
• President of the L&N railroad
The Tire Incident: Page 50
•Why does
Jem push
Scout harder
than normal?
•Where does
she end up?
•Who
retrieves the
tire?
• “Scout
sometimes
you act so
much like a
girl it’s
mortifyin’”
(Lee 50).
• What’s the
significance
Page 50
51-52
• The children start playing “Boo
Radley.” How do you play this
game?
54
• Scout lists TWO reasons for wanting to
stop the “Boo Radley”game. What were the
reasons?