Homework for 2-a, 3-a, and 4-a/Assigned on 11/16 and due on 11/18

Everyone should have completed Chapters 1-3/To Kill a Mockingbird

Tonight, you will be reading Chapter 4 and completing the following writing assignments:


What is the most significant moment in Chapters 1-4? Why is it important? Use details and examples from the text to support your choice. This is a paragraph response.

Read Chapter 4. Record notes for this chapter using the format we practiced in class today. (See models and directions in your RWNB. If you left your notebook in school, I have copied the directions below.)

DECODING THE TEXT GETTING THE GIST To Kill a Mockingbird
For each chapter you read, you are responsible for recording the following information:

Plot Sequencing/Action Chapter _________
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What do you consider to be the four main “happenings” in this chapter? List these in the order in which they occur in the chapter.
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RISING ACTION (The building up of conflicts in a story)

What is the most important conflict presented in this chapter? Why is it significant? (Cite specific incident in the text and corresponding page numbers.)


SETTING (Time and Place)
• Can you detect evidence of the Jim Crow South in this chapter? Does the chapter express or imply a segregated society? Is there evidence in the text to suggest that African American citizens are not afforded the same rights and/or consideration as the white citizens in Maycomb. Cite specific examples from the text and corresponding page numbers.
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Can you detect evidence of the Great Depression in this chapter? Is there evidence of the effects of the Great Depression? Are people suffering from joblessness, hunger, poverty, etc.? Cite specific examples from the text and corresponding page numbers.


CHARACTERIZATION
• Which characters influence one another in this chapter? (See influence chart.) Cite evidence and page numbers from the text to support your response.
• Which character do you learn the most about in this chapter? What do you know about this character, and how do you know it? (Include expressed (what the book tells us) and implied (what we can infer based on what the book tells us) information.__________________________________________________________


WONDERINGS: What do you want to know about the people, conflicts, and ideas presented in this chapter?
If you don't understand something you read or an idea seems confusing, please cite the page number so that we can discuss it when we are decoding the chapter.