Questions/Main Ideas
Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:
QOD: What is one thing about your historical background that would help people to understand you better? In what ways does the lack of this knowledge change your relationships?
In what ways could the gaining of this knowledge help your relationships? (23 paragraphs) QOW: How does the author of
To Kill a
Mockingbird
build historical context to help the reader develop a better understanding of setting, plot, themes, and characters? Daily Questions:
Who is the narrator of the novel and why is it important to know that? What questions are raised in
Chapter 1 starting with the second paragraph? What do we learn about the narrator’s family from the
long description of their history given by the narrator? Why is this information important? Who are the Haverfords and what role did they have in
Atticus “developing a profound distaste for the practice of criminal law? What kind of place is
Maycomb? Why is it important to know this?
What is so scary about Boo? If the children are so terrified by Boo, why are they drawn to him and why do they want him to come out? Why does Jem take the dare?
Literary Terms:
Allusion
Allegorical
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Synonymous
Vocabulary:
Assuaged
Piety
Imprudent
Repertoire
Malevolent
QOD
:
How are the events of
Chapters 1 and 2 allegorical to the story of Adam and Eve
(from Genesis of the
Christian Bible)? Chapter 2
Daily Questions: Why don’t the students like the story about the cats?
What does this tell us about the children of Maycomb
County?
Why does Miss Caroline tell
Scout that she must not read at home anymore and that she should print in first grade instead of writing in cursive? How did Scout learn to read and write? Why won’t Walter Cunningham take the money
Miss Caroline offers to lend him so that he can buy his lunch in town? Why does Miss Caroline punish Scout?
Vocabulary:
Condescended
Apprehensively
What literary devices were used in chapter 2?
Chapter Questions
Why did Scout start to beat up Walter Cunningham on the playground when she had previously come to his defense with Miss Caroline?
Why does Scout get in trouble when it is Walter who does something inappropriate by pouring molasses all over his food
(something that she would not be allowed to do)?
What does Calpurnia mean tells Scout she should not
“contradict the ways” of other people? If we can infer by Walter
Cunningham’s refusal to accept “charity” from Miss
Caroline meaning he is
“proud” and has work ethic like his father; what can we infer about Burris Ewell’s
Indigenous
Illicitly
Sojourn
Adjectives and Adverbs Quiz
Thursday October 8 Chapter 3
father by his disrespect of
Miss Caroline?
To which old adage can we relate Atticus’s comment to
Scout regarding understanding another person, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
I
QOW: Why is it important to learn good notetaking skills? Vocabulary Dispensation
Contradict
Iniquities
Flinty
Contemptuous
Contentious
Diminutive
Literature Terms Adage
Colloquialism
Dialect
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
C4QODs:
What do Scout and Jem find in the tree in the Radley front yard?
What might be the items found symbolize?
Novel Reading: Chapter 4
What game do the children begin playing? What does this reveal about their concept of Boo Radley? What happens when Atticus catches the children? How does Atticus’s reaction and Jem’s reply relate further to the allegory of the
Adam and Eve story?
VQOD:
What word does this remind me of? What does the root mean? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is it?
LTQOD: What are some examples of how these terms are used? CBQOD:
What is the difference between a superstition and a belief? What superstitions or beliefs do the children talk about?
What does Calpurnia say about the beliefs of “her” people? What era in literature and history does this relate?
C5QOD
Who is Miss Maudie
Atkinson and why is it significant that Scout is spending time with her?
Vocabulary: Auspicious
Arbitrated
Melancholy
Quell
Literary Terms and Devices (figurative language):
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Allusion Contextual Background: Superstitions/Beliefs
Chapter 5
According to Scout, how does Miss Maudie compare to Miss Stephanie
Crawford?
What is significant about
Miss Maudie calling Boo
Radley by his proper name
– Arthur – rather than his nickname? What does Scout learn about the Radleys and how
Boo was raised? How does what the “foot washing” Baptist believe about Miss Maudie conflict with what Scout knows about Miss Maudie. How does this make her feel?
Why?
How does what Scout and
Miss Maudie’s discussion of
Atticus reveal about their family. How does this compare/contrast with the
Radleys?
What did Atticus tell the children when he caught them playing the “Boo
Radley” game again? What was the “oldest lawyer’s trick on the books” used by Atticus to get Jem to tell the truth? VQOD:
Where I have heard/read this word before? What word does this remind me of? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is this word?
Vocabulary Benign
Benevolence
Edification
C6QODs: Where do the children sneak off to on Dill’s last night in Maycomb for the summer? What do they witness on the way? Why and how did this cause Scout to feel (yet again) inadequate as a female? Who do the neighbor’s automatically assume was in the Radley collard patch?
Why is this significant? What did the children tell
Atticus they had been doing to explain Jem’s missing pants? How does this relate to the allegory to the Adam and Eve story? How does Jem react when
Scout tries to talk him out of returning to the Radley place for his pants? Why was Jem so afraid for
Atticus to find out the truth about his pants? How does this further relate to the allegory to the Adam and
Eve story?
V6QOD:
What word does this remind me of? What does the root mean? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is it? Chapter 6
Vocabulary Malignant
Desolate
Theme Introduced:
Not time to worry yet.
C7QOD: What was significant about
Jem’s pants when he found them? What inferences can we draw from this? What other items do the children find in the knot hole? How many are found in all? What do they symbolize? What happens to the knot hole? What is the significance of this? Why does this upset Jem?
VQOD:
What word does this remind me of? What does the root mean? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is it? Chapter 7
C8QOD and related themes/symbolism. What happens in Maycomb that has not occurred since
1885?
To whom does Mr. Avery assign blame for this aberration? What happens to Miss
Maudie’s house?
Chapter 8
Where are the children told to stand? What is the significance of this? What further act of
Vocabulary: Tarnished
Ascertain
benevolence does Boo
Radley extend toward the children? Could this be foreshadowing for a future events where the children might need
Boo?
What is Miss Maudie’s attitude regarding her house? What old adage does this bring to mind? What does this tell us about
Miss Maudie?
Vocabulary Unfathomable
Aberrations
Accosted
Caricatures
Morphodite
Direst
Adjacent
Perplexity
Literary Terms Adage
Foreshadowing
Chapter 9
C9QOD and Related
Symbolism
What does Cecil Jacobs say that caused Scout to want to fight with him? Why does she decide not to fight? Why was Scout so upset by what Cecil Jacob said?
What word does Atticus tell
Scout not to say anymore?
Why does Atticus take the
Tom Robinson case, even though it is causing the towns people to talk badly about him?
Who is Francis and what does he do Christmas day that makes Scout forget her promise not to fight?
What is significant about
Scout getting into trouble for what Frances alleges Scout calls him vs. what
Frances calls Atticus.
Now that Scout has gained knowledge regarding the word “nigger”, she is no longer innocent. If she continues to use it she will be what?
How do Atticus and Uncle
Jack differ in regard to disciplining children? How do their different styles of discipline relate to their professions? C10QOD
How do the children view their father in comparison with the fathers of their friends? What did Atticus tell the children it is a sin to kill?
Vocabulary:
Inordinately
Induce
Provocation
Ingenuous
Indicative
Literary Terms:
Flashback – when the author/narrator breaks into the sequence and flow of the story to “flash” back and tell something that happened in the past.
Allusion indirectly referencing a person or event in history or literature that is considered to be “common knowledge”.
Chapter 10
Based upon Miss Maudie’s explanation, why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?
What did Atticus do that changed how the children feel about him? How do the children’s reactions differ? What is the significance of this? What elements of symbolism are revealed in this chapter? How might these relate to the Civil Rights Movement?
C11QOD
Who is Mrs. Henry
Lafayette Dubose? What does she do to anger
Jem?
Why does this cause Jem to become angry? How does Jem express his anger? What is Jem’s punishment for his actions? What does Mrs. Dubose give
Jem after her death? What is his reaction? What does Atticus tell Jem about bravery? How does this relate to the case?
Chapter 11
Chapter 10 Vocabulary
Inconspicuous
Rudiments
Peril
Articulate
What elements of symbolism are revealed in this chapter?
How do they relate to the
Civil Rights Movement?
Vocabulary passé interrogation apoplectic umbrage acquisition inaudible reconnaissance propensities
devoid
Notes:
QOD: What is one thing about your historical background that would help people to understand you better? In what ways does the lack of this knowledge change your relationships?
In what ways could the gaining of this knowledge help your relationships? (23 paragraphs) QOW: How does the author of
To Kill a
Mockingbird
build historical context to help the reader develop a better understanding of setting, plot, themes, and characters? Daily Questions:
Who is the narrator of the novel and why is it important to know that? What questions are raised in
Chapter 1 starting with the second paragraph? What do we learn about the narrator’s family from the
long description of their history given by the narrator? Why is this information important? Who are the Haverfords and what role did they have in
Atticus “developing a profound distaste for the practice of criminal law? What kind of place is
Maycomb? Why is it important to know this?
What is so scary about Boo? If the children are so terrified by Boo, why are they drawn to him and why do they want him to come out? Why does Jem take the dare?
Literary Terms:
Allusion
Allegorical
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Synonymous
Vocabulary:
Assuaged
Piety
Imprudent
Repertoire
Malevolent
QOD
:
How are the events of
Chapters 1 and 2 allegorical to the story of Adam and Eve
(from Genesis of the
Christian Bible)? Chapter 2
Daily Questions: Why don’t the students like the story about the cats?
What does this tell us about the children of Maycomb
County?
Why does Miss Caroline tell
Scout that she must not read at home anymore and that she should print in first grade instead of writing in cursive? How did Scout learn to read and write? Why won’t Walter Cunningham take the money
Miss Caroline offers to lend him so that he can buy his lunch in town? Why does Miss Caroline punish Scout?
Vocabulary:
Condescended
Apprehensively
What literary devices were used in chapter 2?
Chapter Questions
Why did Scout start to beat up Walter Cunningham on the playground when she had previously come to his defense with Miss Caroline?
Why does Scout get in trouble when it is Walter who does something inappropriate by pouring molasses all over his food
(something that she would not be allowed to do)?
What does Calpurnia mean tells Scout she should not
“contradict the ways” of other people? If we can infer by Walter
Cunningham’s refusal to accept “charity” from Miss
Caroline meaning he is
“proud” and has work ethic like his father; what can we infer about Burris Ewell’s
Indigenous
Illicitly
Sojourn
Adjectives and Adverbs Quiz
Thursday October 8 Chapter 3
father by his disrespect of
Miss Caroline?
To which old adage can we relate Atticus’s comment to
Scout regarding understanding another person, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
I
QOW: Why is it important to learn good notetaking skills? Vocabulary Dispensation
Contradict
Iniquities
Flinty
Contemptuous
Contentious
Diminutive
Literature Terms Adage
Colloquialism
Dialect
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
C4QODs:
What do Scout and Jem find in the tree in the Radley front yard?
What might be the items found symbolize?
Novel Reading: Chapter 4
What game do the children begin playing? What does this reveal about their concept of Boo Radley? What happens when Atticus catches the children? How does Atticus’s reaction and Jem’s reply relate further to the allegory of the
Adam and Eve story?
VQOD:
What word does this remind me of? What does the root mean? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is it?
LTQOD: What are some examples of how these terms are used? CBQOD:
What is the difference between a superstition and a belief? What superstitions or beliefs do the children talk about?
What does Calpurnia say about the beliefs of “her” people? What era in literature and history does this relate?
C5QOD
Who is Miss Maudie
Atkinson and why is it significant that Scout is spending time with her?
Vocabulary: Auspicious
Arbitrated
Melancholy
Quell
Literary Terms and Devices (figurative language):
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Allusion Contextual Background: Superstitions/Beliefs
Chapter 5
According to Scout, how does Miss Maudie compare to Miss Stephanie
Crawford?
What is significant about
Miss Maudie calling Boo
Radley by his proper name
– Arthur – rather than his nickname? What does Scout learn about the Radleys and how
Boo was raised? How does what the “foot washing” Baptist believe about Miss Maudie conflict with what Scout knows about Miss Maudie. How does this make her feel?
Why?
How does what Scout and
Miss Maudie’s discussion of
Atticus reveal about their family. How does this compare/contrast with the
Radleys?
What did Atticus tell the children when he caught them playing the “Boo
Radley” game again? What was the “oldest lawyer’s trick on the books” used by Atticus to get Jem to tell the truth? VQOD:
Where I have heard/read this word before? What word does this remind me of? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is this word?
Vocabulary Benign
Benevolence
Edification
C6QODs: Where do the children sneak off to on Dill’s last night in Maycomb for the summer? What do they witness on the way? Why and how did this cause Scout to feel (yet again) inadequate as a female? Who do the neighbor’s automatically assume was in the Radley collard patch?
Why is this significant? What did the children tell
Atticus they had been doing to explain Jem’s missing pants? How does this relate to the allegory to the Adam and Eve story? How does Jem react when
Scout tries to talk him out of returning to the Radley place for his pants? Why was Jem so afraid for
Atticus to find out the truth about his pants? How does this further relate to the allegory to the Adam and
Eve story?
V6QOD:
What word does this remind me of? What does the root mean? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is it? Chapter 6
Vocabulary Malignant
Desolate
Theme Introduced:
Not time to worry yet.
C7QOD: What was significant about
Jem’s pants when he found them? What inferences can we draw from this? What other items do the children find in the knot hole? How many are found in all? What do they symbolize? What happens to the knot hole? What is the significance of this? Why does this upset Jem?
VQOD:
What word does this remind me of? What does the root mean? What does the prefix mean? Based upon the suffix, what part of speech is it? Chapter 7
C8QOD and related themes/symbolism. What happens in Maycomb that has not occurred since
1885?
To whom does Mr. Avery assign blame for this aberration? What happens to Miss
Maudie’s house?
Chapter 8
Where are the children told to stand? What is the significance of this? What further act of
Vocabulary: Tarnished
Ascertain
benevolence does Boo
Radley extend toward the children? Could this be foreshadowing for a future events where the children might need
Boo?
What is Miss Maudie’s attitude regarding her house? What old adage does this bring to mind? What does this tell us about
Miss Maudie?
Vocabulary Unfathomable
Aberrations
Accosted
Caricatures
Morphodite
Direst
Adjacent
Perplexity
Literary Terms Adage
Foreshadowing
Chapter 9
C9QOD and Related
Symbolism
What does Cecil Jacobs say that caused Scout to want to fight with him? Why does she decide not to fight? Why was Scout so upset by what Cecil Jacob said?
What word does Atticus tell
Scout not to say anymore?
Why does Atticus take the
Tom Robinson case, even though it is causing the towns people to talk badly about him?
Who is Francis and what does he do Christmas day that makes Scout forget her promise not to fight?
What is significant about
Scout getting into trouble for what Frances alleges Scout calls him vs. what
Frances calls Atticus.
Now that Scout has gained knowledge regarding the word “nigger”, she is no longer innocent. If she continues to use it she will be what?
How do Atticus and Uncle
Jack differ in regard to disciplining children? How do their different styles of discipline relate to their professions? C10QOD
How do the children view their father in comparison with the fathers of their friends? What did Atticus tell the children it is a sin to kill?
Vocabulary:
Inordinately
Induce
Provocation
Ingenuous
Indicative
Literary Terms:
Flashback – when the author/narrator breaks into the sequence and flow of the story to “flash” back and tell something that happened in the past.
Allusion indirectly referencing a person or event in history or literature that is considered to be “common knowledge”.
Chapter 10
Based upon Miss Maudie’s explanation, why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?
What did Atticus do that changed how the children feel about him? How do the children’s reactions differ? What is the significance of this? What elements of symbolism are revealed in this chapter? How might these relate to the Civil Rights Movement?
C11QOD
Who is Mrs. Henry
Lafayette Dubose? What does she do to anger
Jem?
Why does this cause Jem to become angry? How does Jem express his anger? What is Jem’s punishment for his actions? What does Mrs. Dubose give
Jem after her death? What is his reaction? What does Atticus tell Jem about bravery? How does this relate to the case?
Chapter 11
Chapter 10 Vocabulary
Inconspicuous
Rudiments
Peril
Articulate
What elements of symbolism are revealed in this chapter?
How do they relate to the
Civil Rights Movement?
Vocabulary passé interrogation apoplectic umbrage acquisition inaudible reconnaissance propensities
devoid