English 9

TKaM Reading & Vocab for Chs 1-7

VOCAB: A list of words that may be unfamiliar to you in these chapters is attached; it is also included in the course with hyperlinks to dictionary.com and other sites for better understanding the word. Print it out; the reading comprehension quiz will quiz you on some of the words. You may use your print-out during the quiz. Click HERE to view and print out the vocabulary list.

READING GUIDE: Use the reading guide (below) to help as you read. Click HERE to view and print it out and have it by your side as you read.



Chapter 1
Introduction to Maycomb and the Finch Family

• Who replaced Boo Radleys father when he died?
• What does Dill want to make Boo do?
• How does Jem feel about this?
• What does Dill dare Jem to do?
• How does the chapter end?

Chapter 2
Dill leaves and school begins.

• Where was Miss Caroline from?
• How did Miss Caroline begin the day?
• Why does Miss Caroline get upset with Scout?
• What does she tell her to tell her father?
• What happens when it is time to go to lunch?
• What does Scout try to explain to Mrs. Cunningham?
• Who are the Cunninghams? What were they like?
• How does Atticus know the Cunninghams?
• What does Miss Caroline do to Scout?

Chapter 3
School continues.

• What is Scout doing to Walter at the opening of this chapter?
• Where do the kids go?
• What does Walter do to his food?
• How does Scout react?
• What does Calpurnia do?
• Summarize what happens when they return to school
• How does Burris treat Miss Caroline?
• That evening Scout tells Atticus that she does not think she wants to return to school. She tells him about her day. What advice does he give her?
• What does Atticus tell Scout that she had learned that day?
• What does Atticus say about the Ewells?
• What does Atticus teach Scout about compromise?

Chapter 4
The knothole.

• What does Scout find in the knothole of the oak tree?
• What does she do with it?
• What does Jem make her do when he hears about it?
• On the way home from school on the last day of school what do Jem and Scout find in the oak tree?
• Who arrives?
• What is a Hot Steam?
• What does Jem do to Scout?
• What game do the kids play?
• Who gets angry? Why?
• What did Scout hear when she rolled into the Radley yard?

Chapter 5

• Why is Scout angry at Dill?
• What does she do to him?
• Who does Scout hang out with?
• What do the kids decide they are going to do?
• How are they going to do it?

Chapter 6

• One night what do the kids see Mr. Avery doing?
• What do the boys do? Why cant Scout participate?
• What are Dill and Jem planning to do?
• When Atticus asks about Jems pants what does Dill tell him?
• How does Jem get his pants back?

Chapter 7
Your turn! Write a summary of this chapter. Be sure to include all of the things that the kids find in the knothole.



Sources
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_RachelWiener/ToKillaMockingbirdUnit