Monday
Students read background on Harper Lee and began to listen to chapter 1 in class.
Tuesday
Students completed reading Chapter 1, wrote down three vocabulary words, and answered five discussion questions in their journals.
Vocabulary and Discussion Questions:
Vocabulary and Discussion Questions:
1. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
Assuaged: put to rest, as in lessen or calm
2. Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century.
Impotent: powerless
3. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.
Tyrannical: harsh, cruel, unjust
Questions:
1. Who is “Boo” Radley and why are Scout, Jem and Dill so interested in him?
2. Why are so many things that happen in Maycomb blamed on Boo (pg9)?
3. What kind of person is Scout? Provide one example to illustrate your answer.
4. Describe the town of Maycomb. Would you like to live there? Explain.
5. At this point, what would you guess the “tiny, almost invisible movement” is at the end of chapter 1?
Assuaged: put to rest, as in lessen or calm
2. Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century.
Impotent: powerless
3. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.
Tyrannical: harsh, cruel, unjust
Questions:
1. Who is “Boo” Radley and why are Scout, Jem and Dill so interested in him?
2. Why are so many things that happen in Maycomb blamed on Boo (pg9)?
3. What kind of person is Scout? Provide one example to illustrate your answer.
4. Describe the town of Maycomb. Would you like to live there? Explain.
5. At this point, what would you guess the “tiny, almost invisible movement” is at the end of chapter 1?
Wednesday
Students wrote 3 vocabulary words in their notes and listened to chapter 2 in class of TKM.
Vocabulary:
4. But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.
Vapid: uninteresting, boring, dull
5. Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people’s chickens and household pets were found mutilated…
Morbid: horrible, gruesome, dark
6. Boo’s transition from the basement to back home was nebulous in Jem’s memory.
Nebulous: unclear, uncertain
Vocabulary:
4. But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.
Vapid: uninteresting, boring, dull
5. Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people’s chickens and household pets were found mutilated…
Morbid: horrible, gruesome, dark
6. Boo’s transition from the basement to back home was nebulous in Jem’s memory.
Nebulous: unclear, uncertain
Thursday
Students answered Discussion questions and added 4 vocabulary words to their notes:
Chapter 2
1. Does Scout like school? Provide two examples to explain your answer.
2. Why do you think Walter Cunningham will not accept Miss Caroline’s quarter? Would you have? Why or why not?
3. This novel is set during the Great Depression. What are two clues the author gives to show this?
4. How would you feel if you were Miss Caroline at the end of this chapter? Explain.
Vocabulary:
7. Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one’s parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.
Condescend: helping someone you consider “lower” than you
8. The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.
Apprehensive: anxious, fearful
9. I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.
Illicit: not allowed, prohibited, forbidden
10. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me.
Compel: force, require
HOMEWORK: Finish reading chapter 3
Chapter 2
1. Does Scout like school? Provide two examples to explain your answer.
2. Why do you think Walter Cunningham will not accept Miss Caroline’s quarter? Would you have? Why or why not?
3. This novel is set during the Great Depression. What are two clues the author gives to show this?
4. How would you feel if you were Miss Caroline at the end of this chapter? Explain.
Vocabulary:
7. Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one’s parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.
Condescend: helping someone you consider “lower” than you
8. The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.
Apprehensive: anxious, fearful
9. I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.
Illicit: not allowed, prohibited, forbidden
10. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me.
Compel: force, require
HOMEWORK: Finish reading chapter 3
Friday
Quiz on chapters 1-3
Homework: Read Chapter 4
Homework: Read Chapter 4