Vocabulary
Ensuing: Happening next.
Prowess: Ability or a skill.
Ramshackle: Badly built or rundown.
Inviting: Attractive.
Cot: Collapsible lightweight bed.
Sentences
1. Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured , Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the following contest to determine relative distances and respective ability only made me feel left out again, as
I was untalented in this area.
2. The back of the Radley house was less attractive than the front: a broken down porch ran the width of the house; there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors.
3. He came up the back steps, latched the door behind him, and sat on his folding bed.
Summary
This chapter starts off with Mr. Avery peeing off the porch, while Jem, Scout, and Dill passing by looking. Dill said he must drink a gallon a day. Then, Jem and Dill decided to go peek in the Radley’s window to see what is going on. Scout wanted to go, but she was to scared too.
After that, Jem said, “Scout, I’m telling you for the last time shut your trap or go home—I declare to the Lord you’re getting’ more like a girl every day!” Next, Jem, Dill, and Scout went around the back of the Radley house and try to look through the window. Following that, they all seen a shadow passing Jem, and then Jem put his arms over his head. Dill put his hands over his eyes as the shadow passed over Jem. They all ran out of the yard. As they went under the fence
Jem got his pants stuck, so he took his pants off and left them there. As he was doing that Mr.
Nathan Radley shot at him. Then the neighbors gathered in a circle. After Jem said, “We better go down there. They’ll think it’s funny if we don’t show up.” Ms. Stephanie ask them where were they. She also blamed Jem for being in Radley’s garden. Dill said they weren’t, he said they were playing strip poker and that he won his pants for winning. Then Jem told Atticus they were really playing matches.