GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL PRE-AP SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2013 9TH GRADE Mrs. Nelson: nelson@greenvilleisd.com; Cell- 903-269-0603 English I Pre-AP Summer Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Available at Hastings‚ Barnes and Noble‚ or on Amazon.com [pic] [pic] Assignment: While you read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ note and annotate passages that you think are significant. Mark that book! 1. The goal is to note your thoughts about selected quotes as you read
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Alabama Moon Notes Main Character: Moon Blake Supporting Characters: Kit Slip‚ Hal Mitchell‚ Constable Sanders‚ Mr. Wellington‚ Mr. Mitchell‚ Mr. Abroscotto‚ Pap(Oliver Blake) Plot: Moon Blake grows up in the forest with his father because of his father ’s hatred for the government. But‚ when his father passes away suddenly‚ Moon is quickly thrown into a world he knows nothing about. On his way to Alaska‚ he is taken as a ward of the state and put into Pinson‚ a boys ’ home. He escapes with
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Bayer ENG BR That winter snows in Maycomb for the first time since 1885. Scout and Jem used dirt covered with snow to make a snowman that looks remarkably like Mr. Avery‚ an unfriendly neighbor.The race is addressed through the symbol of the "snowman" that Jem creates. The color is used here to reinforce the symbolism of race. The snowman is really made up of balls of black mud and just covered with a thin veneer of white snow which represented the races. This is interesting to compare to
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local of Maycomb County‚ Alabama in the 1930s. The main focus of the story is the trial against Tom Robinson who was accused of raping young Mayella Ewell. The story can be seen through the eyes of protagonist‚ Scout Finch who is the daughter of Tom Robinson’s lawyer‚ Atticus Finch. Protagonist Scout Finch will be the one to introduce us to our antagonist‚ Mayella Ewell. In this small town race‚ gender‚ and class will determine the power of an individual in this small Alabama community. As class
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Classic. A piece of work or art of recognized and established value that is known to be of the highest quality‚ an outstanding piece of its time. Classic novels are still appreciated as much today as they were when they became a hit. To Kill A Mockingbird is one of these novels labelled a classic. I had heard about the book several times before‚ I even read a book that mentioned To Kill A Mockingbird because it was so impactful on the main character. Without even reading To Kill A Mockingbird it
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The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ tells the story of Two kids‚ Scout and Jem‚ who live in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ in the 1930’s. They are very adventurous and curious. Scout and Jem’s dad‚ Atticus‚ is a lawyer who is given a tough case of defending a black man who was accused of rape. During this time in Maycomb there is a lot of racism going around. This theme appears in the novel when Cecil jacobs announced that Scout’s dad Atticus defends black people and started to make fun of her it
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Charles “Dill” Baker Harris Charles Baker Harris or “Dill” is the best friend of the main protagonist of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee. Dill is a boy of immense imagination‚ curiosity and sensibility. Being this much shorter than average and his relatively foreign background shapes Dill’s personality in multiple ways and gives him a unique perspective compared to all of the other inhabitants of Maycomb. Dill has lived a troubled childhood with parents that he feels don’t
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In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ social class is crucial to everything‚ from respect to survival‚ especially during the crude 1930’s in the southern state of Alabama. With the country still recovering from World War 1‚ The Stock Market Crash of 1929‚ the Great Depression and even the Civil War‚ nobody is in the clear of tough economic times‚ crime‚ and for most‚ poverty. However‚ caucasians with a more reliable profession that contained no manual labor such as Atticus Finch‚ a wise‚ noble‚ reliable and
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Civil Rights Movements in Alabama Segregation was a way of life in the South at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Many people treated others terribly because the color of their skin and went on without it even fazing them‚ they all went on thinking it was okay‚ when it was not morally right. African Americans were treated horribly‚ almost as if they were not human. It was impossible to find any aspect of life unsegregated in the south. The Schools‚ restaurants‚ and even bathrooms were all
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Mockingbird is a bildungsroman not only for the characters in the book‚ but also for the reader. The book encompasses Scout and Jem Finch’s lives as they mature‚ learn from their father‚ Atticus‚ and understand the ways of their hometown‚ Maycomb County‚ Alabama. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee functions as a bildungsroman for the reader because it depicts Scout’s moral and social education as she realizes she misjudges Boo Radley‚
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