TKAM: Chapter 1-3 Focus

Things to discuss:

 Describe the Cunninghams
 What impression do we get of school: narrow minded, humiliating.

• Scout rebels against this because she is too innocent to recognize that you have to play the system.  She is the mockingbird teaching the others to sing?

 How Scout is portrayed as a child

• “I’d go off and drown myself ….then they’d be sorry."

 Why does Walter pour syrup on everything and why does Atticus get angry at
Scout for noticing?

• Walter does not get enough nourishment at home.

 Describe the Ewells
 What sort of man is Atticus?

• Fiercely non-racist and a true democrat – law is the king, civil liberties must always be respected.

TKAM: quotes, paraphrasing and summarizing

Chapter 1:  Who is Boo Radley?

• Sketch Boo Radley in your EAL notebook
• What does he look like?  
• Under your sketch-- write a caption that includes where you are getting your information or how that picture of Boo Radley was formed in your mind.
• Bullet point the following...
• What are some of Boo Radley's physical characteristics?
• Why do we have this image of him?
• What are some of his personal characteristics?
• How does the text influence our understanding of Boo Radley?
• Quote/Statement chart about Boo Radley
• Vocabulary to learn:
• Assuage, apothecary, chattel, unusually, detention, tyrannical, morbid, profane, compel, scrawl

 Helpful link:
Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing