To Kill a Mockingbird by Ruby Sudnik

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

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Quiz Ch. 1-3

Here you will keep journal entries as assigned

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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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You will copy and paste the above to the section Questions for Ms. L section you just made. When and if you have questions you want answered immediately, or don't feel are appropriate for whole class discussions, please fill out and send the form.

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Scout Finch

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Jem Finch

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Atticus Finch

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Calpurnia

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Boo Radley

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Dill

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Chapter One

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Chapter Two

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Miss Caroline

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Everybody knows everybody else in Maycomb

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Because the farmers are poor, so are the people who are dentists and lawyers and other jobs of that sort

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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 One

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I noticed that Calpurnia is black and it made me curious what other kinds of jobs black people had

I wonder if Atticus's siblings will appear later in the book

How is Dill relevant

Chapter Two

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I wonder if everybody in Maycomb knows everybody else the way Scout does

Did hitting students actually improve their behavior

Chapter Three

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What are molasses buckets and why are their lunches in them

Why doesn't Mrs. Caroline want Atticus to teach Scout to read

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Chapter Three

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Analyzing Pictures

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Chapter Four

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To Scout, its important to prove that she isn't afraid of the Radley place because she wants the boys to think she's brave. When she's reluctant they call her a girl or a sissy and that just makes her want to fit in with the boys.

To Jem it's important because he is the oldest and wants to be seen as heroic and admirable to them. It also helps him keep respect and be seen as brave.

For Dill, he's only in the area during the summer anyways so he wants to be seen as cool and unafraid just like the other two.

All of their motives are similar with their own little parts to them

Jem basically says that girls are stupid and make things up and they're hated by everybody else. This could be foreshadowing to make a girl character (Maybe Scout) do something good and give Jem some character devlopment.

Chapter Five

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Three events that moved the story along were the kids talking to Maudie and learning some things about Boo Radley, the kids attempting to give Boo a note asking him to come outside, and them getting caught by Atticus and being told to stop tormenting Boo.

Chapter Five

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Something from this chapter that connect to the present day is the misogyny. Even now a huge portion of men (and women) think that women are superior to men. That's the same way that Jem thinks.

Another thing is that people feel like they have the right to poke/pry in other peoples lives. Many kids today are just like the kids in this book because they mess with things and people they shouldn't.

Chapters Nine and Ten

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Something racist: "That n word oughta hang from the water tank!" This is a quote from one of Scouts classmates.

When Atticus tries to speak out against racism: Its often that Atticus will tell Scout not to say the n-word.

When Scout tries to understand:

Chapters 11-12

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Major Plot Points:

Jem having been told to read to Miss Dubose
Miss Dubose dying
Scout and Jem going to Calpurnia's church

Characters Changing:

Scout is starting to have to view things from different perspectives
Jem finding that courage is like quitting addiction not shooting a dog.

What I Would've Done Differently:

When Jem tells Atticus that he wasn't actually sorry I would've kept that to myself
When I Scout was getting yelled at by Jem I woulda wanted to be girly not boyish

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?

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When my family was looking to buy a new house in sixth grade I remember being very reluctant to move at all and hated the idea of leaving. I wanted to stay at home and keep going to the same school I always have. This was important because I did end up moving but staying in the area and it really effected my life. Like I said, I really wanted to stay and did not want to move to the city at all. Now I really wish that I had moved. Like every day. I guess the reason my perspective has since changed is that my best friend was the reason I wanted to stay. Now she's completely changed. She's not nice anymore and I don't even think she likes me. I understand why my mom wanted to move more because she didn't want to be around my dad and now I don't want to be around my friends.

Chapter 13 - Aunt Alexandra

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Aunt Alexandra is Jem and Scouts aunt and Atticus's sister. She is very proud of her family (the Finches) and, according to Scout, "fits into Maycomb like a glove". Within the first few pages of meeting her its apparent she is very judgmental and maybe a bit of a hypocrite. She speaks of how nearly everybody in Maycomb has come sort of "streak". She also clearly wants Scout to change, become more girly, and do more things. She goes as far as to call Scout sluggish and make Atticus talk to the kids about becoming more like a Finch.