Jac Coyle: "To Kill A Mocking Bird" Padlet by James Coyle

Central Question of the Novel To Kill a Mockingbird

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What factors influence our moral growth? What kind of experiences help us learn how to judge right from wrong?

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You will be responsible for keeping up with, learning, using, and understanding the vocabulary in our unit and in the book. While you will be assigned words, you may also add any of your own you do not know. Please follow instructions on Quizlet!

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Here you will write any notes you take during your reading. Questions you have, answers to questions, connections you make, inferences or predictions you make, observations and thoughts you have, or anything else you can or want to take notes on will go here. Please create a new text box in your column for each chapter.

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Here you will make additional boxes in your section for each major character. As you read, you will take notes here, on identity charts, about anything that shows you who the character is and how they change (or don't), what they learn, and how they grow.

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Here, you will write notes, thoughts, and ideas as you connect the events and ideas from the book to our current, modern day life and society.

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Here you will take notes on how the author drives the plot forward through dialogue, action/events, etc.
You will also have a link in this section to a plot sheet you will continuously work on and change.

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Any work you have outside of the novel will be done here unless done on paper.

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Scout Finch

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-Narrator

-Sister of Jem

-Likes to Read/Good Reader

-Knows a lot about the people in Maycomb County

-Bullied Walter Cunningham Jr.

-Rude

Jem Finch

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-Broke his arm at 13

-Likes Football

-Doesn't like to be seen at school with his sister

-Nice to some people

-Doesn't like Girls

Atticus Finch

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-Father of Scout and Jem

-Attorney

-Good Dad

-Friend of Walter Cunningham Sr.

-Lawful

Likes Rules and Traditions

Calpurnia

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-The Cook for the Finchs

-Harsh

-Disciplinarian

Boo Radley

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-Stabbed his Dad

Dill

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-Happy

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Places

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-Maycomb County, Alabama

-The Courthouse

Time

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-During the Jim Crow Era

"I knew that'

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I knew that during those times the teachers were allowed to use Corporal Punishment.

"What does this mean"

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What is a Crocker Sack?

A sack of turnips or something.

The Town

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-Small

-Hot

-Poor

-One School

The Towns People

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-One Gang

-Mostly Poor

1) Think about a community you are a member of (your school, religious community, family, or group of friends). What are some of the most important rules in that community? Are these rules written down? What are the most important unwritten rules, those not written down but which everyone knows about?

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Chapter 3 Notes

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-The Great Depression made life hard for People

-Miss Caroline can be Strict

-Miss Caroline is scared by a bug

-Atticus continues to teach Scout to read

-Walter puts molasses on his food

Chapter 2 Notes

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-Scout Goes to school

-Dill comes to Maycomb

-Dill Touchs Boo Radleys House

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Add to this anytime we read and you learn new things about our characters.

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Chapter 4: Jem's View on girls

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He thinks they imagine things and that they are scaredy cats. (That was the best word I could think of)

Chapter 4: Why they prove that they are not afraid of the Radley House

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Scout: She wants to fit in with the boys.

Motives: Their motives are not the same.

Jem: To prove that he is not a girl.

Dill: He can smell death at the house and he is not afraid of it. He wants to prove he is not a scared cat.

Chapter 5 Notes: 3 Events

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-Scout hangs out with Miss Maudie

-Boo (Arthur) Radley is still alive

-Jem and Dill tries to give Boo Radley and Letter

Chapter 5 Connections

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-Boys still exclude girls from their games

-There are still extreme Christians

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Chapter 8 Notes

Chapter 9-10 Reading Notes

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Questions:

Times when something is or seems racist to you: People say the N-word,
Times when Atticus tries to speak against or work against racism: At the beginning of Chapter 9- "Scout Finch's daddy defended N***ers"
Times when Scout tries to better: Not saying the N-word
When finished, Answer this question in your journal: How could Atticus do a better job-fighting racism in Maycomb? Use examples from the text to support your opinion. By defending even more Black people. He has only defended one

Chapter 11 Notes

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-Jem apologies to Mrs. Dubose

-He did not mean it

-Jem ahs to read to Mrs. Dubose

-Scout asks Atticus what a Negro-Lover is

-Mrs. Dubose died

-Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict

-Jem is still mad at Mrs. Dubose

-Jem threw the box in the fire

Chapter 12 Notes

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-Jem is growing up

-Dill isn't coming to Maycomb this Summer

-Dill has a new dad

-Scout still likes Dill

-Scout didn't like not having Dill around

-Jem is more wise now

-Calpurnia asks Jem and Scout if they want to go to church with her

-Jem and Scout go to church with Calpurnia

-Jem is Colorblind

-Lula doesn't like white people at the black church

Journal Entry

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Describe a significant event in your life such as a problem or a change that you understand better now than you did when it happened. Why was the event important/significant? What is the difference between how you understood it then and how you do now? Why do you think your perspective has changed?

When I was younger, I don't remember when exactly, my mom and I were driving on I-40. there was this guy who was driving really bad and my mom did something (Probably switching lanes) and the guy got mad and pulled a gun on us. I guess he didn't see me at first because I looked over and he put it away. I didn't realize what had happened but my mom told me later. I now know that this is what our world is like and that people like that dude exist. So now I know that not everyone is good.

Chapter 13 notes

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-Aunt Alexandra has a black chauffeur

-Aunt Alexandra is married to Uncle Jimmy, maybe

-Scout does not have much to talk to Alexandria with

-Alexandra "knows" what is best for the family

-Alexandra moves in

-She moved in very fast

-Alexandra thinks everyone in Maycomb has a bad streak

-Maycomb grew Inward

-Alexandra fits in Maycomb very well

-They have a new Cousin, Lily

-Aunt Alexandra thinks that Scout and Jem should not act like run-of-the-mill people

-She wants them to act more sophisticated

-Alexandra wants to control the family and keep its good name

Aunt Alexandra Paragraph

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Just from this chapter we can see a lot about Aunt Alexandra. We can see that she acts sweet and sophisticated, which is only an act she puts on. She does to make herself seem good and get the support of Maycomb's sophisticated. But she is actually very controlling. She wants to make Scout and Jem be more like her and make their family seem sophisticated. She also tries to force Atticus's hand into making Scout and Jem act more elegant and not like run of the mill people. About halfway through the chapter Scout comes inside to get a drink, but Alexandra tells her to come to the room she's in with her friends. But it says that she immediately regrets it because Scout is very dirty from playing outside.