Assignments 8
Ms. Canaday
9/9/13 – 10/9/13
9/9 – 9/13
1) Due Wed. 9/11.
Write a personal essay in which you describe a time when you experienced
someone making incorrect assumptions about another person. You can be directly involved (either as the
“assumer” or the person assumed about) or indirectly involved by being a
bystander. Make the situation feel real
to the reader by including excellent detail that establishes who these people
are as well as what is at stake in the incident. What was the outcome of the situation? (2 pages double-spaced.)
2) Due Thursday 9/12: Read in TKAM chapters 1 and 2.
(Look for a clue for the year in which the
story begins.)
3) Due Friday 9/13: Read in
To Kill a Mockingbird chaps.
3 and 4.
Suggested
blog topics:
a)
Begin a list of items found in the tree.
What do you think they mean?
b) What do you make of the last line
of Chapter 4?
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9/16 – 9/20
1) Read chaps. 5 and 6.
Suggested
blog topics:
a)
Describe Scout’s relationship with Calpurnia. Can we trust Scout’s perspective on this
issue?
b)
What clues do you have about Miss Maudie’s character?
c)
What does it mean that “Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is
on the public streets?” p. 46
d)
Why do the children play the “Radley Game”?
e)
What does Scout mean by “It was then that Jem and I first began to part
company?” p.56
2) Read
in TKAM Chaps. 7, 8.
Suggested blog topics:
a) In ch. 7 explain Jem’s statement: “When I
went back they were folded across the fence .
. . like they were expectin’ me.”
b) How did Scout wind up with a blanket across
her shoulders?
3) Read
in TKAM chaps. 9, 10
Suggested blog topics :
a) Discuss Atticus’s explanation of the case to
Scout. What does he mean by “Simply
because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us
not to try to win”?
b) Why do you think Atticus never let on he was
an expert marksman?
4) Read
in TKAM chaps 11, 12
Suggested blog topics:
a) Why
does Atticus consider it a sin to kill a mockingbird but okay to kill a mad
dog?
b)
Explain Atticus’s definition of courage (at end of ch. 11).
c) What
do you learn about Calpurnia and the black community in town?
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9/23
– 9/27
1) Read chaps. 13, 14.
Suggested blog topics:
a) What
affect does Aunt Alexandra have on the routines of Atticus, Jem, and
Scout?
b)
Explain the last line of ch. 13.
2) Read
chaps. 15, 16.
Suggested blog topics:
a) What
was it that caused a mob to form? To
disperse? Why do people do things while
part of a mob they wouldn’t do if on their own?
b) Why is Dolphus Raymond in the book?
3) Read Chaps. 17, 18.
Suggested blog topics:
a)
Think about the description of the Ewell place. Why are there geraniums in that yard?
b) Pay very
close attention to the testimonies. Are
there inconsistencies?
4) Read
chaps. 19, 20
Suggested blog topics:
a) Why
was Tom in such a difficult spot once he set foot in the Ewell house?
b) What
are the techniques Gilmer uses to intimidate Tom? Why does Dill cry?
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9/30 – 10/4
1) Read
chaps. 21, 22,
Suggested blog topics:
a) Just before the
court hears the verdict, Scout imagines Atticus “walk into the street, raise a
rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing
the gun was empty.” What is the significance of this line?
b) Explain Reverend
Sykes’ statement, “Miss Jean Louise, stand up.
Your father’s passin’.”
c) Describe the town’s
response to the trial using Miss Maudie, Miss Stephanie and Bob Ewell as
examples.
2) Read
Chapters 23, 24, 25.
Blog
topic suggestions:
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