To+Kill+a+Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee "[I]t's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Atticus Finch

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= = Essential Questions =

Life
 * To what degree does society influence or shape an individual? **

**What factors influence a person's moral growth? What types of experiences help a person judge right from wrong?**

**What are stereotypes and how do they affect how we see ourselves and others?**

**What happens when one person stands up for what he/she believes in? To what degree can one person cause change within society?**

= Literature = How does a writer's background influence her work?

How does a time period influence a writer's work?

How does an author's diction help reveal tone and create mood?

What do minor characters add to a work of literature?

= Anticipatory Set =

What do YOU think? Take the survey linked here. You must choose one answer for each statement. (Go with your first instinct.) Be ready to discuss your answers.

= Setting/Historical Context =

Why is it important to understand the setting of a novel?

Historical Context/Setting

To Consider What was life like in the South in the 1930's? What were the causes of segregation? What were/are the effects of segregation? How does the setting of a novel affect the plot? How does the setting of a novel influence characters' actions? What would happen if the setting of a novel were changed?

Task Have you ever heard the expression that a picture is worth a thousand words? Let's look at pictures from the 1930's and see what we can learn.

1. Take a look at this picture gallery, and write a short reflection about what you pick up about life in the 1930's. Photo Essay of the Great Depression

2. Use the photo analysis sheet to analyze your photo.

3. Write a brief journal describing what you think it would be like to live in the setting that you see in your photo. (Use a first person perspective in your journal.)

The Scottsboro Trials

Who are the Scottsboro Boys? How is their trial similar to Tom Robinson's trial? The Scottsboro Trials

Biographical Information of Key Figures in the Scottsboro Trials

Jim Crow Laws Link to the National Park Service's page regarding Jim Crow Laws

Author Study Harper Lee Biography

Read the article and be ready to discuss the following: How does Harper Lee's life influence her writing? Who influenced Harper Lee's writing?

Link to Student Survival Guide
Vocabulary and Study Questions (The vocabulary and study questions are from Secondary Solutions. If you need a printed copy of the questions, please use the embedded icon above.)

Chapters 1-2
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Chapter 1 1. What happened to Jem when he was nearly thirteen? 2. How did Simon Finch make his money? 3. Where does this story take place (give details)? 4. Why do you think the children call their father Atticus rather than “Dad”? 5. What does Atticus Finch do for a living? 6. Who were his first two clients? What happened to them? Why? How did this case change Atticus as a lawyer? 7. What does the author mean by: “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.” Why did the people of Maycomb have “no money”? 8. What happened to the narrator’s mother? How did her death affect the narrator? How did it affect Jem? 9. Describe Dill. Why has he come to Maycomb? What does Dill claim to have done with the “beautiful child” money? 10. Explain how the children spend their summer. What do they do for fun? 11. Give 2-3 examples of rumors about the Radley house and its inhabitants. 12. What did Arthur Radley and the other boys do that got them in trouble? Why was Arthur locked in the Radley house? 13. What did Atticus mean when he told the children “there were other ways of making people into ghosts”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">14. Describe Miss Stephanie Crawford. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">15. Describe Boo Radley, according to Jem’s description. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">16. Dill and Jem make a bet at the end of this chapter. What is their deal? What does Jem do to win the bet?

Chapter 2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Describe Miss Caroline. Where is she from? Why does this make her first day as a teacher even more difficult? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Explain Jem and Scout’s interpretation of the “Dewey Decimal teaching system” that Miss Caroline uses. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Scout gets in trouble twice on the first day of school. What does she do to get in trouble? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why won’t Walter Cunningham take Miss Caroline’s money? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What do the Cunninghams do when they cannot pay for a service? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. How do the people of Maycomb “seal” contracts and deals? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. What happens to Scout when she tells Miss Caroline about the Cunningham family?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 3 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. How does Walter claim he almost died his first year of school? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Why has Walter been unable to pass the first grade? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What does Walter do at dinner that surprises Scout? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What does Calpurnia tell Scout as a result of her outburst? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What do the kids first think causes Miss Caroline to scream? What is the real reason she screams? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Why do you think the Ewell children only come to school on the first day? What do you think is the reason many Maycomb children need to stay at home for the rest of the year? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. What is your reaction to the way Burris treats Miss Caroline? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. What is Atticus’s solution when Scout tells him that she doesn’t want to go back to school? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. What do we learn about the Ewell family from Scout and Atticus’s conversation?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 4 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What treasures do Scout and Jem find in the knothole of the tree? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. How does Scout end up in the yard in front of the Radley house? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What new game do the kids create? How is it played? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What do we learn about the children’s belief in superstitions in this chapter? Explain their behavior. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Scout says that Atticus’s return was the second reason she wanted to quit playing. What was the first reason?

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Chapter 5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Describe Miss Maudie. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What is a “foot-washing” Baptist, according to Miss Maudie? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What does Miss Maudie mean by “sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, your father”? Why do you think Scout doesn’t understand Miss Maudie’s analogy? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What do you think Scout means when she tells Dill, “You act like you grew ten inches in the night”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What is the plan to get Boo Radley to come out? How well does the plan work? Why?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 6 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Describe Mr. Avery. What do the kids wait for him to do every night? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Why do they decide to wait until nightfall to peek into the Radley house? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What do the children see through the window? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How does Dill claim Jem lost his pants? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What nickname does Jem call Scout? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What does Jem do after he knows Atticus is asleep? Why does he do this? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Why is Scout worried about him?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 7 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What secret does Jem reveal to Scout? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What new treasures do the children find in the knothole? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What does Jem learn about in the sixth grade? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Who does Scout think has been leaving the treasures? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. How do the kids express their appreciation? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What do they see the next day? Why do you think Mr. Nathan Radley told the kids that the tree was dying? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. How does this incident affect Jem?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 8 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Who died this winter? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Why does Scout think that the world is ending? On what does Mr. Avery blame this weather? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Why do the kids get in trouble for their snowman? How do they disguise it? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What does Scout worry about if the Finch house should catch fire? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Why were the firemen having such trouble putting out the fire? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What happens to Scout the night of the fire? Who witnesses this? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. How does Miss Maudie react to the fire? What is she looking forward to?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 9 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why does Scout get in a fight with Cecil Jacobs? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Why does Atticus feel he needs to defend Tom Robinson? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What do you think Atticus means when he says, “Just because we were licked a hundred years <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">before we started is no reason for us to not try to win”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Where does the Finch family go every Christmas? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What do the children get for Christmas? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What problem does Aunt Alexandra have with the way Scout is growing up? How does she <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">attempt to provide female influence? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Why does Scout get in a fight with Francis? What is the result? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Describe Scout’s relationship with Uncle Jack.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 10 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Name five things we learn about Atticus in this chapter. How does Scout feel about her father at the beginning of this chapter? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. According to Miss Maudie, why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What does Miss Maudie teach Scout about her father? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Who is Tim Johnson? What is wrong with him? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Why does Mr. Tate give the rifle to Atticus, rather than shooting the dog himself? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Why do Jem and Scout now have a new appreciation for Atticus?

Chapter 11 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Describe Mrs. Dubose. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Why does Jem destroy Mrs. Dubose’s flower garden? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What does Atticus mean when he says, “This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that goes to the essence of a man’s conscience—Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t try to help that man”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What is Jem’s punishment for ruining the flower garden? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Why is Mrs. Dubose so sick? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What does Atticus tell Jem was the one thing Mrs. Dubose wanted to do before she died? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. What does Mrs. Dubose give Jem? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. What is the reason Atticus wanted Jem to meet Mrs. Dubose?

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Chapter 12 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why is Jem so “inconsistent and moody”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Why wasn’t Dill able to come to Maycomb this summer? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Describe Calpurnia’s church. How did the church get its name? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How do the people at Cal’s church treat the children? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Why doesn’t the church have hymn books? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Why is the church collecting ten dollars? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Of what is Tom Robinson accused? Why won’t anyone hire his wife? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Who is Zeebo? What does he do at the church? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. How does Scout feel Calpurnia is different at her own church?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 13 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why has Aunt Alexandra come to Maycomb? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe Aunt Alexandra. Besides the fact that she once lived in Maycomb and she knows everyone, why does she fit in so well in Maycomb? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Give a brief description of how Maycomb was established. Why are so many people related to each other in some way? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the premise of the “talk” Aunt Alexandra makes Atticus have with the children. According to Scout, why does the talk fail? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">What does this conversation between Atticus and the children reveal about their relationship as a family?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 14 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. How do the people of Maycomb begin to treat Atticus and the children? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What is the premise of the argument between Atticus and Aunt Alexandra? What does Aunt Alexandra suggest? What is Atticus’s response? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Where does Scout find Dill? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What does Dill claim is the reason he ran away from home? What is the real reason?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 15 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why do the men come to talk to Atticus at his house? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Jem says he’s “just got this feeling.” What do you think he is worried about? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Why do you think all the lights were off at the jailhouse except the one lamp Atticus brought from home? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why is Atticus sitting in the jailhouse? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. How do the men know that Mr. Tate won’t be coming to help Atticus? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Why do the men tell Atticus to leave? What do they want to do to Tom? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Who does Scout recognize? Why do the men finally leave? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Who was “covering” Atticus the whole time? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. How does Atticus show his affection towards Jem?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 16 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What does Atticus mean when he says that Mr. Cunningham has “blind spots”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Describe the atmosphere before the trial. Why are the blacks and whites separated? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Who is Dolphus Raymond? What do we learn about him and the way he lives his life? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why don’t the Raymond children fit in? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Although Atticus has been appointed to defend Tom, the people of Maycomb are against it. Why? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Who helps the kids find a seat in the courtroom? Where do they sit? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. How is the arrangement of the courtroom then different from modern courtrooms today?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 17 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why does Atticus ask whether anyone called for a doctor? Why is this important? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Describe Mayella’s injuries. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Where do the Ewells live? Describe their home and living conditions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why do you think the Ewells eat squirrel, possum, and rabbit? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Summarize Bob Ewell’s interpretation of the incident. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Why does Atticus ask Ewell to write his name? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. What do you think Jem realizes when he pounds the rail and says, “We’ve got him”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. What does Scout mean when she says, “I thought Jem was counting his chickens”?

Chapters 18-19 media type="custom" key="27619688" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 18 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why does Mayella think Atticus is mocking her? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What more do we learn about the Ewell family from Atticus’s cross examination? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Describe the “incident,” according to Mayella’s testimony. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What is wrong with Tom Robinson’s left arm? How did it get this way? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Who does Atticus suggest actually beat up Mayella?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 19 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why does Atticus bring up the fact that Tom Robinson had been in trouble before? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Who does Tom work for? What does he do for him? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. How does Tom’s story immediately contradict Mayella’s testimony? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How did Mayella get Tom to come inside the house? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. How did Mayella get rid of the children that particular day? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What did Mayella do to Tom, according to his testimony? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Why did Tom run away from the Ewell place? What was his predicament? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Who came to Tom’s defense in the courtroom? What did he say? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Why do you think Tom was so scared of being accused of hurting Mayella? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Why does Dill get so upset at Mr. Gilmer that it makes him sick?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 20 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who do Dill and Scout meet outside? What do they learn about him? Why does he go through such trouble to pretend? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">What does Atticus do that horrifies Scout and Jem? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think Atticus means by, “This case is as simple as black and white”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the more significant meaning behind his claim? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">How does Atticus explain that the case is not about Tom, but actually about Mayella and society? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the “lie” Atticus talks about? What is the reality that he is hoping the jury will see? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">How does Atticus claim that we are not all created equal? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ideally, in what realm is every citizen of the United States truly equal? How is this the “great leveler”?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 21 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why does Calpurnia come to the courthouse? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do you think Atticus avoids answering Jem’s question, “Do you think they’ll acquit him that fast?” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other than the fact that they didn’t know where the children were, why do you think Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra were so upset that the children were watching the trial? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">About how long does it take for the jury to come up with their verdict? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. How does Scout know the verdict before it is announced?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 22 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What is Jem’s reaction to the verdict? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What does Atticus mean when he says, “They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. How does the black community show its appreciation for what Atticus did? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why does Miss Maudie believe that appointing Atticus was no accident? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What did Bob Ewell do and say to Atticus?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 23 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. How does Miss Stephanie embellish what happened to Atticus? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Why does Atticus defend Bob’s actions to Jem? What is Atticus’s hope? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What does Aunt Alexandra mean when she says that Ewell could do “something furtive” to Atticus? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why was Tom given a death sentence? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What are Jem’s suggestions for change in the court system and laws? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Why did Atticus put a Cunningham on the jury? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Why does Aunt Alexandra object to Scout inviting Walter Cunningham to the house? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. How does Jem try to make Scout feel better after her conversation with Aunt Alexandra? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. According to Jem, who are the “four kinds of folks” in Maycomb? Explain how this theory works. Why are the Finches at the top of the chain?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 24 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Briefly describe the women of Maycomb. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. How does the author reveal the fact that these women are hypocrites? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. To whom might Miss Merriweather be referring when she says that there are some “good but misguided people in this town”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What does Miss Maudie mean when she says, “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Why does Scout like men better than women? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What news does Atticus bring to Alexandra and Calpurnia? Explain what happened. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. What does Miss Maudie mean when she says that the town is “paying the highest tribute” to Atticus? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Why do Aunt Alexandra and Scout pretend that nothing is wrong when they return to the ladies?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 25 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why won’t Jem let Scout kill the roly-poly? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">How did Tom’s wife react to the news of Tom’s death, according to Dill? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is Maycomb’s reaction to Tom’s death? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is Mr. Underwood’s editorial about? Why does he claim it was a “senseless killing”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. What is the reason Boo Radley doesn’t come out of his house, according to Jem?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 26 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What is Cecil’s current event about? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What does Scout picture will happen when she finally sees Boo Radley? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What is ironic about the discussion concerning Hitler’s persecution of Jews in Scout’s class? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How does Jem react when Scout tells him about overhearing Miss Gates at the courthouse? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Why do you think he reacts this way?

Chapter 27 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What happened to Mr. Ewell that October? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What happens to Judge Taylor? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. How does Mr. Link Deas help Helen Robinson? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. What happened on Halloween night last year to Misses Tutti and Frutti? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What is Scout’s Halloween costume this year? Why? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. The last sentence, “Thus began our long journey together” is a bit of foreshadowing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Predict what you think might happen this Halloween night.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 28

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Describe the weather at the beginning of the chapter. How might the weather contribute to the mood of the story?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Who jumps out and scares Jem and Scout?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. How does Scout “ruin” Miss Merriweather’s pageant?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why are Jem and Scout the last ones to leave the party?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Why does Scout want to go back to the school?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What saves Scout from being badly injured during the attack?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. What happens to Bob Ewell?

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 29 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why aren’t Atticus or Alexandra able to hear the children outside? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What does Scout hear after Jem tries dragging Scout to safety? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Describe Boo Radley. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How do you think Scout recognizes Boo Radley, even though she has never really seen him before?

Chapter 30 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why does Atticus invite everyone to the front porch rather than the living room? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Who does Atticus think killed Bob Ewell? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. How does Heck Tate say that Ewell was killed? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Why does Atticus argue with Tate about how Ewell was killed? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. From where does Tate say he got the switchblade? Why do you think he has the switchblade? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What does Atticus finally realize? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. To whom is Tate referring when he says, “…taking the man that has done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight—to me, that’s a sin”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. What do you think Scout means when she says that it would be like “shooting a mockingbird”?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 31 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Why does Boo want Scout to take him home? Considering his age, what is unusual about his request? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What is significant about Scout looking at the world from the Radley porch? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Why do you think the author ended the book with the line, “Most people are [nice], Scout, when you finally see them.” To whom or what is Atticus referring? What does he mean when he says, “…when you finally see them”?

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 * 1) //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">To Kill a Mockingbird //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> is set in a small town in Alabama town of the 1930s. What elements of the story are specific to that time and place? What elements are universal, independent of time and place?
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The book’s first sentence: “When he was thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow,” tells you something important about the narrator’s perspective. What is that?
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The relationship between Scout and Atticus is at times very tender and at other times might appear somewhat harsh. Overall, how would you characterize their relationship?
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">How do race relations today differ from how they are described in the book? In what ways are they similar?
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">What role does Miss Maudie play in //To Kill a Mockingbird//? Why is her character important and necessary to the success of the novel?
 * 6) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">In addition to all the other issues that //Mockingbird// addresses, it raises the issue of gender roles and expectations and their confining nature. What are some examples of this dynamic?
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">What does the word //empathy// mean? How does Atticus define it? Can you give examples of where Scout and/or Jem didn’t display it? How and why did their understanding and practice of empathy change over the course of the novel?
 * 8) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">There are several heroic figures in //To Kill a Mockingbird//, or instances in which quite different characters display heroic qualities. Which character’s heroism is most interesting to you? Whom would you like to meet and why?
 * 9) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">There are also villainous figures of varying degrees. Some are benign, some are more sinister. What are the most apparent examples of villainy in the book? What are some of the more subtle examples? What are some instances of sympathetic characters exhibiting behaviors that are disagreeable to you?
 * 10) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">What are the advantages of using Scout as the narrator? What difficulties does that choice of narrator present for the author?
 * 11) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">What does the mockingbird in the title symbolize?
 * 12) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">A theme is the main idea or message in a book, something that is often implied rather than stated explicitly and that often deals with timeless or universal ideas. One of the many reasons behind //To Kill a Mockingbird//’s enduring popularity is its many compelling themes. What are the themes in the book that are most important to you?
 * 13) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Literacy is a theme that surfaces repeatedly in the book. What is the authors’ view of the importance of literacy to an individual? To a society?
 * 14) //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">To Kill a Mockingbird //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> is celebrated throughout the country and indeed around the world as one of the most important books in American literature, and it is considered by many to be a classic. Why do you think it is so revered?
 * 15) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Calpurnia speaks two different languages, depending on the company she is in. How does she justify that? What is your reaction to that justification?
 * 16) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> When Scout says that telling people about Boo Radley’s role in the events of Halloween night would be like killing a mockingbird, what does she mean?
 * 17) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">In good books characters develop and change. Describe the ways that you see Scout changing. What are the ways that you see Jem change over the course of the book? What does innocence mean, and what are some of the examples of it you see in the children? Are there examples of it in other characters?
 * 18) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Atticus does many things that are criticized both by members of his own family and by people throughout Maycomb, and yet he is still highly respected by almost everyone in the book. Why do you think that is so?
 * 19) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">What is the significance of Mrs. Dubose’s camellias in //To Kill a Mockingbird//?
 * 20) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Atticus talks to Scout about the power of language and its ability to hurt. What is Harper Lee trying to communicate to readers in this passage?
 * 21) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The scene in which Atticus shoots the mad dog reveals much about him. What are some of the things you come to know about Atticus in that scene? What does the mad dog represent?
 * 22) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">If you saw the movie, in what ways does the movie differ from the book? Which telling of the story did you find more powerful? Why?
 * 23) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Harper Lee’s use of language and grammar reflects the actual values and the beliefs of her characters. Did you find this helpful in forming a picture of them? Was it disturbing or distracting?
 * 24) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Does the mockingbird of the title refer to a specific character in the book? More than one? What else might it represent besides a character?
 * 25) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Harper Lee writes of two kinds of racism: structural or institutionalized racism, as displayed by the “good folks” of Maycomb who convict Tom, and the violent, emotional racism of the Ewells and the courthouse mob. Do you think she sees one as worse than the other? What do you think?



Essay Questions/Synthesis Tasks

Character Analysis Essay (Character or Literary Analysis)

Your essay will be graded on the standard Norwood High essay rubric or sythesis rubric unless you are told otherwise.

1. Review of thesis statement. 2. Complete thesis statement practice. 2. Graphic organizer

3. Rough Draft 4. Revision Show your revisions on your paper! If you write your paper by hand, mark it up in a different color pen. If you type your paper, turn on "track changes." 5. Editing Be sure to use your editing checklist to help yourself edit your work. 6. Final Draft

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So what? Life/Community Connections

Why did we read this novel?

What do you take away from this novel?

What do you think the author was trying to present through this work?

How does this relate to our lives?

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Now what? (What will you do with your insights?) Choice #1-- Project Proposal (and possible implementation) Atticus Finch chose to make a difference. What can YOU do to make a difference? 1. Find a topic that is of concern to you. 2. Learn about that topic. 3. Propose a project to raise awareness or to address this issue. 4. Present your project idea to the class. You may use any media presentation system to do this. be sure to include the rationale for your project. the goals, the procedure for implementation, and the sources from which you gathered your information. 5.If possible, implement your plan!

Possible Sources Do Something Innocence Project Boston Cares Human Rights Watch

How will you be graded on your work? Good question! Your team will be creating its own rubric for your project. The following criteria need to be considered: Connection to Text Clarity of Purpose Plan of Execution Implementation of Plan Evaluation of Experience

Choice #2 Google Doc Debate or Multi-media Presentation-- Should the death penalty be legal?

1. Research the pros and cons of the death penalty. 2. Use Spider Scribe to create a web of pros and cons for the death penalty. (Try to make a counter point for each point that you make.) 3. Pair up with a partner. One of you will need to take a stance for the death penalty, the other of you will need to take a stance against the death penalty. 4. Use Google Docs to make an argument for and against the death penalty. You need to cite the sources from which you gather information. You may use bibme.org to create your works cited page.