The Eagle’s Nest

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

·      Watch documentary and complete worksheet.  11/03

·      Receive book and character list. 11/03

·      Read novel at home (fill out and return the question sheets).

11/5 – Chapters 1-3                        11/13- Chapters 16-18

11/6 – Chapters 4-6                        11/14 – Chapters 19-21

11/7 – Chapters 7-9                        11/17- Chapters 22-24

11/10 – Chapters 10-12                  11/18- Chapters 25-27

11/12- Chapters 13-15                  11/19- Chapters 28-31

·      Select the character that impacted you the most and write an essay about that character.   Support what it is about the character that made you pick him or her.  Give evidence from the text for support.  Min. of five paragraphs with a minimum of five sentences per paragraph.  Turn in the day of the party.

·      Character Party –  11/21

o   Dress and act like a character in the book.  Make and wear a sign.

o   Bring a Southern dish or beverage to share.

o   Turn in your Character Essay.

·      Turn books back in to teacher AFTER THANKSGIVING BREAK.

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**Pages will count on your QRA, ONLY if you complete the questions for the chapters read**

To Kill a Mockingbird Character List

Scout (Jean Louise Finch): The narrator and main character that begins her story at almost six years of age. A rebellious tomboy, Scout has a fierce disposition toward any who challenge her, but at heart she believes in the goodness of people. Scout reacts to the terrible events of the book without losing hope in humanity.

Jem (Jeremy Finch): Scout’s older brother, who is nearly ten at the beginning of the story. Jem is quieter and more reserved than his sister, and has very high standards and expectations for people. When these expectations are not met, Jem has a difficult time resolving his feelings.

Dill (Charles Baker Harris): A friend of the Finch children, who is a little older than Scout, quite short for his age, has an active imagination, and exhibits a strong sense of adventure. He initiates the first expeditions toward the Radley house, and is Scout’s best friend. His family life is less than ideal, and he tends to resort to escapism when confronted with difficult situations. Dill spends summers with his aunt, who lives next door to the Finch family.

Atticus Finch: The father of Scout and Jem, Atticus is a lawyer and an extremely morally upright man who strives to deal with everyone fairly. Atticus is sometimes overly optimistic, but his unshakable hope in mankind and self-created role as the town ‘do-gooder’ sustain him. Atticus’ wife died when Scout was very small, and he has raised his children only with the assistance of Calpurnia, his black housekeeper and cook.

Boo Radley: A recluse who never emerges from his house. As a young boy, he was in trouble with the police, and his strictly religious and reclusive parents have kept him indoors ever since. A prisoner in his home, he stabbed his father with scissors once, and no one has seen him since. The town has developed a myth that he is an insane monster who wanders around at night peering into people’s windows. Throughout the book, he lives with his brother, who is highly controlling.

Tom Robinson: A black man who stands falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus agrees to take his case, even though he knows it is probably hopeless, if only to show the white community its own moral degeneracy.

Calpurnia: A black woman who works as the Finch family’s cook and housekeeper. She is one of the many motherly figures in Scout’s life and one of the few who can negotiate between the very separate black and white worlds of Maycomb.

Aunt Alexandra: Atticus’s sister, who has very strict, traditional ideas of how society works and the role a Southern woman should play. She earnestly tries to pass along this information to Scout, who is not particularly interested. Alexandra is concerned with raising Atticus’s children “properly,” and thus appears during the summer of Tom’s trial to stay with them.

Maudie Atkinson: A kind, cheerful, and witty neighbor and trusted friend of Scout’s, who also upholds a strong moral code and helps the children gain perspective on the events surrounding the trial. She also loves gardening.

Bob Ewell: An evil, ignorant man who belongs to the lowest substratum of Maycomb society. He lives with his nine motherless children in a shack near the town dump. Evidence from the trial suggests that he caught his daughter kissing Tom, proceeded to beat her, and then encouraged her to claim Tom raped her. He drinks heavily and spends his relief checks on whiskey rather than food for his family. Bob holds a strong grudge against Atticus and attacks his children at the end of the novel.

Mayella Ewell: The oldest of the many Ewell children, at age nineteen. She lives a miserable and lonely existence, despised by whites and prohibited from befriending blacks. However, she breaks a social taboo by trying to seduce Tom, then reacts with cowardice by accusing him of rape and perjuring against him in court.

Heck Tate: Maycomb County’s trusty sheriff, who is ultimately an honest and upstanding man.

Reverend Sykes: The reverend for the all-black congregation, First Purchase African M.E. church, which Scout and Jem visit one day with Calpurnia.

Judge Taylor: The judge for Tom’s trial. Taylor is a good, sensible man with a sense of humor, who manages a strict courtroom.

Mr. Gilmer: Lawyer for the Ewell family in Tom Robinson’s case.

Mrs. Dubose: A mean, sick, very old woman who lives near the Finch family. Jem unknowingly assists her with her heroic attempt to conquer her morphine addiction, a fight that wins her Atticus’s highest praises.

Walter Cunningham: A poor farmer who is among the “Sarum bunch,” a crowd which assembles near the town jail the night before Tom’s trial in order to start a lynching. He is deeply moved by Scout’s friendly words when she tries to diffuse the situation, and as a result leads the rest of the men in going home. Ever after, he respects the Finch family greatly.

Walter Cunningham (Jr.): Son of the other Walter, who attends first grade with Scout.

Adolphus Raymond: A white man who chose to marry a black woman and have “mixed” children. He pretends to be a drunk so that the townspeople will have a way to more comfortably explain his behavior and life choices.

Helen Robinson: Wife of Tom.

Uncle Jack: Atticus’s brother, a doctor Jem and Scout are very fond of.

Francis: One of Aunt Alexandra’s grandchildren, who spends Christmas with the Finch family and annoys Scout by being both boring and cruel.

L.E.G. Project

 

Part One:

 

Read your novel ASAP.  Nothing can happen until this is done.

 

Part Two:

 

Meet with your group and decide who is doing what on the PowerPoint.

 

There is no minimum or maximum length, or special order, but the following is required:

 

Full Title, Author, and Publishing Date

 

Author Mini Biography (with list of any other works)

 

Setting (time and place)

 

Character Descriptions

 

Plot Summary (beginning, middle, and end)

 

Literary Elements (ex. tone, theme, conflict, point-of-view, symbolism)

 

Quotes from Text

 

Critical Analysis of Book by Group (How did you like it and what did you get out of it?)

 

References (if any)

 

Job Division slide

           

Creativity (pictures, appropriate clips, etc) is encouraged.  This is your project.

 

****BURN A COPY OF THE POWERPOINT AND TURN IN ON PRESENTATION DAY****

 

Due date (ALL PREPARED)_______________

 

Part Three:

 

Individual Book Test will be on _______________(you have to read the book).

 

Part Four:

 

AFTER watching the movie you will write a five-paragraph essay comparing your character in the book to the one in the film. 

 

THIS IS A MAJOR GRADE – DO NOT IGNORE THE ASSIGNMENT

 

PAGES MAY BE USED ON YOUR QRA AND DO NOT NEED AN ADDITIONAL PROJECT

To Kill a Mockingbird – Sentence Summary Student Survival Guide

Chapter 1

The reader is introduced to the narrator, Scout, who describes her family’s history and her town, Maycomb. She and her brother, Jem, are also introduced to Dill, and the children share stories and fantasies about the mystery man next door.

Chapter 2

The first day of school does not go well for Scout.

Chapter 3

Scout learns a lesson in manners when Walter Cunningham comes to lunch and a lesson in compromise from Atticus.

Chapter 4

Scout and Jem find some mysterious presents in the knothole of an old tree on the Radley place.

Chapter 5

The children’s fascination with Boo Radley continues.

Chapter 6

Jem, Dill, and Scout venture out one night to try to see into Boo Radley’s back window — an adventure that leads to frightening results, especially for Jem.

Chapter 7

As the summer comes to a close, Scout and Jem find more presents in the Radley tree, but their bounty is suddenly cut off by Mr. Radley.

Chapter 8

Winter comes quickly, bringing a rare snowstorm to Maycomb. Miss Maudie’s house is ruined in a fire, and Scout has a rare encounter with Bo Radley without even knowing it.

Chapter 9

Scout runs into trouble with both a classmate and a cousin when the two boys taunt her about her father, whom they call a “nigger lover.” Atticus explains to Scout that he will be defending a black man named Tom Robinson.

Chapter 10

Scout discovers that her father, whom she previously thought too old to do anything, does possess some talents.

Chapter 11

Jem and Scout learn more about their neighbor Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose.

Chapter 12

With Atticus out of town, Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to her church. They also learn more information about Tom Robinson.

Chapter 13

Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with Atticus and the children.

Chapter 14

After a tough evening fighting with both Aunt Alexandra and Jem, Scout is surprised to find the runaway Dill hiding under her bed.

Chapter 15

As Tom Robinson’s trial approaches, Atticus worries about the safety of his client — a fear which proves to be justified.

Chapter 16

Tom Robinson’s trial begins.

Chapter 17

Heck Tate and Mr. Ewell take the stand in Tom Robinson’s trial.

Chapter 18

Mayella Ewell takes the stand.

Chapter 19

Tom Robinson takes the stand.

Chapter 20

As they take a break from the trial, Scout and Dill get to know Dolphus Raymond better. Afterwards, they listen to Atticus’s closing statements in the trial.

Chapter 21

The verdict is announced in Tom’s case.

Chapter 22

The children, as well as other members of the community, discuss and react to the verdict in the Robinson case.

Chapter 23

Atticus and the children discuss the trial, Scout and Aunt Alexandra discuss Walter Cunningham, and Jem and Scout discuss class distinctions.

Chapter 24

As Scout suffers through one of her Aunt’s missionary circle affairs, Atticus returns home with the news that Tom Robinson has been killed.

Chapter 25

The residents of Maycomb react to Tom’s death.

Chapter 26

After a classroom discussion of Adolf Hitler and his treatment of the Jews, Scout is struck by the hypocrisy of many of Maycomb’s residents.

Chapter 27

It would appear that Bob Ewell has not forgotten his grudge against some of Maycomb’s citizens, including Judge Taylor and Helen Robinson. In the meantime, Scout prepares for a Hallowe’en night presentation at her school.

Chapter 28

While returning home from the school pageant, Jem and Scout are attacked. Jem is hurt and carried home by a stranger. Afterwards, a search of the area turns up Bob Ewell’s dead body.

Chapter 29

As Heck Tate and Atticus listen, Scout tells them what happened to her and Jem, ending by pointing to the man who had carried Jem home.

Chapter 30

Atticus is sure that it was Jem who stabbed Bob Ewell, but the sheriff tells Atticus that he intends to report that Ewell fell on his own knife. Atticus is sure that Tate is trying to protect Jem, until it finally dawns on him that it was really someone else who killed Ewell.

Chapter 31

Scout walks Boo Radley home, and then she reflects what it must be like to “stand in his shoes and walk around in them.”

COLLEGE VOCABULARY LIST

 

1. squalid: sordid; dirty; marked by filthiness.

2. proliferating: multiplying; rapidly increasing in numbers.

3. sanctuary: a refuge; a place for worship.

4. elude: evade; cleverly avoid.

5. ultimate: final; farthest; most remote in space or time.

6. inscrutable: obscure; not capable of being understood.

7. spiel: an extravagant talk; an oration.

8. servitude: slavery; punishment for a crime; subjection.

9. spellbind: fascinate; enchant; to hold one’s attention as by a spell.

10. proletariat: common people, working class.

11. delusion: a deception; a false idea or opinion.

12. purge: to cleanse; to purify; to free from impurities.

13. secular: worldly; not sacred or religious.

14. viable: practical; able to live or to be implemented.

15. anathema: a curse; a vigorous denunciation.

16. jeopardy: danger; peril; vulnerability.

17. reflective: thoughtful; pensive; contemplative.

18. benign: gentle; showing kindness of disposisiton.

19. pugnacious: belligerent; combative; obnoxious.

20. dissipate: scatter; vanish; to waste, as in money.

 

21. acquiesce: assent; to accept passively or reluctantly.

22. denigrate: defame; belittle; criticize unkindly.

23. munificent: lavishly generous; liberal in giving.

24. capitulation: surrender; giving up resistance.

25. palatable: edible; pleasant tasting; to one’s taste.

26. vehement: forcibly expressed; impassioned; fervid.

27. fruition: accomplishment; realization.

28. eradicate: exterminate; do away with completely.

29. despotic: tyrannical: dictatorial.

30. extricate: to free; remove from entanglement.

31. paranoia: irrational distrust; feeling of persecution.

32. malevolence: malice; hatred toward others; intention to harm.

33. tenuous: insubstantial; flimsy; weak.

34. ambivalence: uncertainty in attitude; fluctuation.

35. desiccate: dry up; dehydrate; to drain vitality.

36. replete: complete; full; abundantly filled.

37. recalcitrant: resistant; defiant of authority.

38. cogent: convincing; valid; forcibly appealing to the mind.

39. affluence: profusion; overflowing of wealth, etc.; an abundance.

40. astute: clever; shrewd; intellectually observant.

 

41. fatuous: foolish; silly; simple-minded; not intellectual.

42. vindictive: revengeful; spiteful; wanting to hurt or harm.

43. meticulous: giving great attention to details ; mindful of details.

44. catharsis: purification; purgation; cleansing of emotions.

45. insatiable: quenchless; incapable of being satisfied.

46. dubious: doubtful; uncertain in belief or knowledge.

47. tepid: lukewarm; lacking definite warmth; moderate warmth.

48. perpetual: everlasting; continuing forever.

49. skepticism: doubt; uncertainty in belief or knowledge.

50. vestige: remnant; that which is left.

Any form (part of speech) of the vocabulary word may used if appropriate for the sentence.

51. clandestine: secretive; held or conducted secretly.

52. expatriate: banished person; one driven into exile.

53. converge: meet; to move toward one another.

54. implicit: understood without explanation; tacitly understood; implied

55. manifest: obvious; readily perceived by the senses.

56. lexicon: dictionary; book containing words and definitions.

57. felicity: great happiness; state of being happy.

58. accentuate: emphasize; to accent something.

59. ephemeral: fleeting; transient; lasting only a short time.

60. eccentric: odd; strange; deviating from the pattern.

 

61. symbiosis: mutuality; beneficial union or association.

62. debacle: great disaster; fiasco; a tumultuous breakup.

63. delusive: deceptive; likely to deceive or trick.

64. exigencies: urgent needs; emergencies.

65. pernicious: wicked; deadly; highly injurious or destructive.

66. ostracism: exclusion; banishment; social exclusion.

67. ameliorate: improve; to make better or more tolerable.

68. tutelage: instruction; a guiding influence.

69. morose: expressive of gloom; sullen; unsociable.

70. ancillary: subsidiary; auxiliary; subordinate.

71. plethora: excess; superfluity; an overabundance.

72. vivifying: enlivening; quickening; renewing of life.

73. aesthetic: artistic; relating to or dealing with beauty; appealing to the eye.

74. disparate: different; markedly distinct in some way.

75. pedagogues: pompous teachers; schoolmasters.

76. salutary: curative; promoting good health.

77. relegated: assigned; classified; banished.

78. nuance: subtle distinction or difference; subtle variation.

79. precarious: dangerous; unsafe; hazardous.

80. metamorphosis: change in form; alteration of appearance.

 

81. congruent: equal; harmonious; agreeable; in tangent.

82. essences: prime characteristics; basic qualities.

83. syntax: word order; arrangement of parts of sentences.

84. unimpeachable: irreproachable; not liable to accusation; above reproach.

85. generic: general; common; characteristic of a whole group.

86. tandem: twosome; an arrangement by two.

87. rapport: harmony; relation marked by accord.

88. effete: decadent; effeminate; marked by weakness.

89. austerity: extreme economy; an ascetic practice.

90. presumptuous: audacious; tending to be overly bold.

91. voracious: gluttonous; extremely greedy; insatiable.

92. invidious: hostile; offensive; rousing ill will.

93. impermeable: impervious; not permitting passage.

94. aphorism: proverb; a terse formulation of a truth.

95. malaise: a sick feeling; a sense of mental or moral ill being.

96. histrionic: dramatic; theatrical; relating to the theater.

97. gingerly: cautiously; carefully; proceeding with caution.

98. decadence: deterioration; a period of decline.

99. drone: parasite; one who lives from the effects/good will of others.

100. calibrate: to determine; to measure; to standardize.

 

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 How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Answer using information found in the text.  - 50% of Mid-Term

 

Intoduction

1.     In Lorraine Hanberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) in what way would Walter Lee be selling his soul by accepting the check offered for his home?   List four conventions of poetry.

 

 

 

2.     What three items separate the professional reader from the rest of the crowd?

 

 

 

Chapter One

3.     What is the real reason for a quest?

 

4.     What five elements make up the quest structure?

 

 

 

 

Chapter Two

5.     In literature, whenever people eat or drink together – what is that called?

 

6.     In Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) what is the eating scene really about?

 

 

7.     In which story did the mother’s effort to get her family together for a meal only occur after her death?

 

 

Chapter Three

8.     Name three things other than vampirism that vampires represent in literature.

 

 

 

 

9.     In what way does the Henry James’s Daisy Miller employ a figurative vampire?

 

 

Chapter Four

10.  What is the line number and meter structure of a sonnet?

 

11.  What does Foster claim is true of short poems compared to long ones?

 

Chapter Five

12.  When O’Brien has his character fall through the road, which piece of literature is he comparing his story to?

 

13.  John Gardner reworked the classic Beowulf into what postmodern masterpiece?

 

14.  In which Shakespearean play does a character let her friends stage her death and funeral in order to teach her fiancé a lesson?

 

 

Chapter Six

15.  What is the title of the musical based on Romeo and Juliet?

 

16.  Quote three lines by Shakespeare.

 

 

 

17.  What two books did pioneer families usually have?

 

Chapter Seven

18.  In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, what are the four white men on horseback compared to Biblically?

 

19.  What Biblical personage is Grendal a descendent of?

Chapter Eight

20.  Name two Slavic folktales that were made into Disney movies.

 

21.  We want ____________________ in our stories, but we want ___________________________, too.

Chapter Nine

22.  In literature, what does myth mean?

 

23.  List three town or team names that come from Greek or Roman myths.

 

 

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24.  What four struggles of the human being are present in the story of Odysseus’s return home?

 

 

 

 

Chapter Ten

25.  Which Victorian novelist is credited with the line, “It was a dark and stormy night”?

 

26.  If you have a character walk through the rain to get somewhere, what are you most likely trying to symbolically portray?

 

27.  What is the main function of the image of the rainbow?

 

 

Chapter Eleven

28.  Explain the two categories that violence falls into in literature.

 

29.  They’re __________________________ only on the inside of the novel–on the outside they’re planned, plotted, and executed by somebody, with malice aforethought.    

Chapter Twelve

30.  Symbols have one definite meaning in what type of writing?

 

31.  In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the river is a road and the raft trip a quest.  What is gained by Huck?

 

 

32.  What other than objects and images can be symbolic?

 

Chapter Thirteen

33.  What is the name of the British social thinker who felt that helping the poor was a bad idea?

 

34.  What mixture does Foster call Ezra Pound’s politics?

 

 

35.  Which stratum of society does Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher deal with?

 

36.  In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) two political guests are invited to lunch.  What is her purpose?

 

Chapter Fourteen

37.  List three features that might make a character a Christ figure.

 

 

38.  Which Hemingway character is seen as a Christ figure?

Chapter Fifteen

39.  If a person is suspended in air, even briefly, it has meaning.  List three possible meanings.

 

40.  Flight is _______________________. 

Chapter Sixteen

41.  Blame it on _____________________. 

42.  List three female sexual symbols in literature.

 

 

43.  Which short story by Lawrence does Foster contend may have Oedipal elements?

 

 

Chapter Seventeen

44.  What is it called when a writer writes about sex and means strickly sex?

45.  List three literary meanings often represented by sex.

 

 

Chapter Eighteen

46.  Generally, what three things does baptism (submersion in water) represent in literature?

 

Chapter Nineteen

47.  When characters go south, what does that generally mean?

48.  What does the flatland usually symbolize?

Chapter Twenty

49.  In literature, define the meaning of spring (three min.).

 

50.  In literature, define the meaning of winter (three min.).

 

 

51.  In The Wasteland, which month is called the cruelest?

 

 

Chapter Twenty-One

52.  In literature scars and imperfections usually mirror moral, emotional, or psychological scars or imperfections.  List three characters that have scars or imperfections.

 

53.  List three pieces of literature where characters make a pack with the devil.

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Two

      55. _________________________is blind sees the whole story,  _________________________ is blind  

             to the truth and eventually blinds himself.  

  

56.  How do we know early on that Indiana Jones is afraid of snakes?

 

Chapter Twenty-Three

57.  List three literary meanings of heart disease.   

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Four

58.  Like the character in James Joyce’s book, how is Dublin paralyzed?

 

 

     59. List the four principles governing disease in literature.

 

 

     60. What figurative “bad air” does Daisy Miller suffer from?

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Five

     61. What does “don’t read with your eyes” mean?

 

 

    62. What is the point of the last-chance-for chance story?

 

 

    63.  If read through Greek eyes, what does the story of The Iliad teach us about Achilles?

 

 

Chapter Twenty-Six

    64. ________________trumps everything.

 

    65. What does Didi and Gogo not taking the road in Waiting for Godot indicate?

 

   66. Why is the rain at the end of A Farewell to Arms ironic?

 

 

   67. What irony chiefly involves is a _________________ from _______________.

 

   68.  Which work is sited as a negative model of Christ?   

 

Chapter Twenty-Seven

   69. What does the test story signify?

 

 

 

  70.  What metaphor is used to signify the above answer?

 

Eng. I Mid-term (10/16) – Scantron

·      20 questions on God/Goddess names, positions, and symbols

·      20 questions on Romeo and Juliet

·      10 questions from these five short stories:

            Guy de Mauassant, The Necklace (26)

            Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game (38)

            O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi (151)

            Liam O’Flaherty, The Sniper (162)

            Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado (207)