English 9

TKaM Reading & Vocab for Chs 8-14

For this week, read chapters 8 through 14 of To Kill a Mockingbird (TKaM). After you have read these chapters, be sure to answer the questions in the discussion board, post the required blog, and complete the reading comprehension/vocab quiz.

VOCAB:
Click HERE to view and print the vocabulary list; 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.

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

Chapter 8
This chapter opens with a call from Eula May who informs Atticus that there will be no school because it is going to snow. The kids spend the day playing in the snow.

• What happens in the middle of the night?
• Where are the kids taken?
• What is Mr. Avery doing?
• When they finally are able to return home what does Scout find around her shoulders?
• According to Atticus who put it there?
• What does Miss Maudie say about her house?

Chapter 9

• What happens between Cecil Jacobs and Scout?
• Who is Tom Robinson?
• Why does Atticus say he is defending him?
• How does Scout deal with Cecil the next day?
• Who is Francis?
• What did Jem and Scout get for Christmas?
• What happens between Scout and Francis on Christmas day?
• How does Uncle Jack react?
• What does he do to Scout?
• What happens between Uncle Jack and Scout when they get home?
• What does she make him promise?
• Summarize the conversation between Uncle Jack and Atticus.

Chapter 10
Your turn! Write a short summary of this chapter.

• Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?

Chapter 11

• Why do Jem and Scout hate Mrs. Dubose?
• How does Atticus tell Jem to handle her?
• List some of the mean things she says to the kids.
• Jem is furious. What does he do?
• When Atticus finds out what does he make Jem do?
• What does Mrs. Dubose want Jem to do for her?
• Describe the experience that Jem has at Mrs. Duboses house.
• How does Atticus explain to Scout what a nigger-lover is?
• What happens to Mrs. Dubose?
• What was she addicted to?
• Why was she so mean?
• What did Mrs. Dubose have her maid send Jem?
• How does the chapter end?

Chapter 12

• Jem doesnt want to hang around with ___ anymore. He is growing up. Cal starts calling him ____.
• Why isnt Dill coming to Maycomb?
• To where Atticus is called away?
• Describe the Montgomery Advertiser cartoon.
• Why does Calpurnia bathe Scout so roughly?
• Why is the church called First Purchase?
• Describe the cemetery.
• How do the people show respect to Jem & Scout, specifically?
• Who is Lula?
• This church has no ____ books.
• The collection will go to ____.
• ___ leads the singing. How does he do it?
• What is the only difference between Reverend Sykes & Jem and Scouts pastor?
• Why does Reverend Sykes ask Alec to shut the door?
• After church, Scout asks the Reverend why Helen doesnt bring the kids to work with her. What does he explain?
• Tom has been accused of ___.
• Cal tells Scout to ask ___ about it.
• What does Cal call the way they sing in church? Why do they do it that way?
• What happens to Cals speech? How does Cal explain why she speaks differently at church and at the Finchs house?
• ____ is on the porch when they get back from church.

Chapter 13

• Alexandra has come to stay for a while. What does "a while" imply?
• Why has she come?
• What does Scout say when Atticus asks her if she would like Alexandra to live with them?
• According to Scout, who really decided that Aunt Alexandra should come?
• There is a very descriptive paragraph about Alexandra t hat begins with "When she settled in with us and life resumed its daily pace...." List several things you learn about her.
• At the end of the chapter, Atticus comes into Jems room. What has Alexandra sent him there to explain to the children?
• Why does Scout cry?
• How does Atticus react?

Chapter 14

• What happens to Jem and Scout when they go to town?
• How does Atticus define rape? Does Scout understand?
• Describe what happens when Scout asks if she can go to Cals one Saturday.
• Aunt Alexandra wants to get rid of ____.
• Why do Jem and Scout have a fist fight?
• Scout thinks she has stepped on a ___. Jem gets a ___ and swipes it under the bed. ____ comes out.
• Scout brings him ___ and ___ to eat.
• Explain how Dill got there. (Both the imaginary and real versions!)
• Who does Jem go to get? Why is this breaking "the remaining code of our childhood"?
• Miss Rachel fusses, but what does she allow Dill to do?
• What happens in the middle of the night?
• Scout asks Dill why he ran away. What does he tell her?

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