Assignments 8
Ms. Canaday
4/4/11 – 4/15/11
1) Finish your Poetry Project. Be prepared to share with the class on Friday
2) Due Monday: Read in TKAM chapters 1 and 2.
(Look for a clue for the year in which the story begins.)
4/11/11 – 4/15/11
1) 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?
2) 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
3) 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?
4) 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?
