Unit 3 ~ Coming of Age in Changing Times: Novel Study of To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM)
Name: _______________________________________ Period 1 3 4 5 4.20 & 21.2015
Chapters 12 ~ 15 Notes Pages and Analytical Paragraph, Chapter 15~ 4/20 Page one INCA
Directions: Respond to the questions below using details from the chapter.
SYNOPSIS: Dill doesn’t visit this summer; Atticus must attend an emergency session of the legislature; Cal takes the
Finch children to her church, wherein they discuss Tom Robinson’s wife Helen, and later, the “command of two languages” that Cal reveals. Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Finch family.
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How does the author, Harper Lee, poke fun at the character Scout, whose loss of Dill is “unbearable?”
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Scout notices Cal’s voice become “strange” (Lee 158). What has changed? Why has Cal’s voice changed? Can you connect this with Shaq’s comment about Ebonics?
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A. What literary device is employed in this phrase about Cal’s bonnet: “(t)he roses on her hat trembled indignantly” (Lee 158). _____________________________________________
B. What information is this phrase meant to convey to the reader?
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Vocabulary: (adj.) contentious: _______________________________________________________________
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The church takes up a collection for Helen Robinson, Tom Robinson’s wife. Why does she need the money right now? (Inference).
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Scout’s innocence leads her to state the “justice” that should be present but is actually lacking in the town. What does she think should solve the issue of Helen’s employment?
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What is “linin’?” (Lee 165) and why does the congregation sing this way?
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What is Harper Lee’s perspective on Ebonics, or AVE? (167). Use evidence to support your claim.
4-20 HOMEWORK ~ Read and answer questions through #15.
Chapter 13
SYNOPSIS: Aunt Alexandra comes to stay, presumably because Scout and Jem need some manners and some polishing. Alexandra has decided that it takes a Finch female to teach them to take pride in their ancestors. Atticus tries once to insist they listen to Alexandra’s perspective, but ultimately he cannot force his kids to do something he himself has no intention of doing (pp 177-179).
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(From this chapter, you will only be held accountable for knowing that Aunt Alexandra becomes a member of the
Finch household during the summer of the trial, and she and Atticus hold different opinions about what being a
“Finch” means.
9. What does Aunt Alexandra believe being a Finch means? (Find evidence in chapter 13.)
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10. What does Atticus believe being a Finch means? (Find evidence in one of his conversations with his kids.)
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Chapter 14
SYNOPSIS: Scout learns what the word “rape” means from Atticus; Alexandra wants Atticus to let Cal “go,” and
Atticus refuses. Dill runs away from “home” and arrives in Maycomb, hiding under a bed in the Finch household. He tries to explain to Scout why his mother and “new” father don’t need him around. Scout cannot understand what it is to be unneeded by her father and her (surrogate) mother, Calpurnia.
Reader’s Theatre, pages 190-192: three parts. Scout ~ pink; Dill ~ Green; Narrator ~ Yellow
(You will not be graded on any information in this chapter, but mark the page(s) that record the conversation Scout has with Atticus about another devastating word, “rape” -- this kind of conversation is a PATTERN we have witnessed several times so far in the novel.)
Chapter 15
SYNOPSIS: Dill is allowed to stay in Maycomb; Heck Tate (the sheriff) tells Atticus about Tom Robinson’s move to the county jail (basement of the courthouse); Atticus takes his reading lamp to the courthouse. Scout talks to Mr.
Cunningham about his entailment. Tom Robinson is protected by the Finch family, in one way and another.
11. What literary device is employed in the first paragraph of chapter 15? What purpose does it serve?
12. A. What is Atticus’ “dangerous question?”
B. How does this fit just perfectly into the portrait of Atticus’ character we are beginning to fill in?
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Read the discussion Atticus has with Heck Tate on page 195. What information can we infer Atticus already knows?
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Scout overhears Atticus saying to Alexandra, “… (I’m) in favor of Southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life” (Lee 196). Translate the meaning of this sentence, given your understanding of the first part of the courtroom scene we watched on Friday, April 10 th .
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What is the significance of the men’s attire (outward dress and appearance)?
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INCA ~ 4/21 TUESDAY: Chapter and Film Review
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After reading aloud from page 201, 207, write down any differences you detect between the original text, and the film version:
Details from the novel (VER
Extension cord and a light bulb
SUS) Details from the film
A reading lamp
TUESDAY HW: Write a specific and defendable claim; we will write the paragraph in class WED 4/22.
Chapter 15/ Analytical Paragraph: Review your “T” chart comparing the different treatments of the courthouse scene in the film and the novel. Then, write an annotated paragraph in response to this prompt:
How have the additions and the omissions in the screenplay changed the character of Atticus from Lee’s original portrayal of Atticus, in the novel?
Intro sentence should reference a concept: heroism, character, different versions, family, community, etc.
Conclusion should reveal your evaluation of which version is most “heroic.” DUE IN HAND BY THURS. 4-23 BOP
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Intro Sentence _____________________________________________________________________________
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2. Claim (specific response to the prompt) ________________________________________________________
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Intro to BOTH pieces of evidence/evidence (MLA format) ______________________________________
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Evidence from novel__________________________________________________________________________________________
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Contrasting evidence from film__________________________________________________________________________________________
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Analysis of the evidence: HOW and WHY the pair of contrasting details above support your claim.
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Second half of the paragraph outline on the back of this page
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Intro to BOTH pieces of evidence/evidence (MLA format) ______________________________________
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Evidence from novel__________________________________________________________________________________________
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Contrasting evidence from film__________________________________________________________________________________________
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Analysis of the evidence: HOW and WHY the pair of contrasting details above support your claim.
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Concluding sentence________________________________________________________________________
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If you did not completed your own evidence packet, below is a “starter kit” ~ so get started!
SUS) Details from the film
A reading lamp
Details from the novel (VER
Extension cord and a light bulb
Atticus’ fingers were trembling
The mob tells him Heck Tate on a “snipe hunt”
Atticus’ mouth was wide open (gaping)
Mr. Cunningham “squatted down and took me by both shoulders” (206).
Atticus leaning on the wall of jail, blowing nose “violently” - inference? Crying? Laughing?
No sense of Atticus as afraid
Did they use this phrase in the film?
I didn’t see this in the film, his astonishment…
He stood - did he take off his hat? He was wearing one in the film, but not in the book (white line on forehead).
Didn’t show this…
Mr. Underwood had Atticus covered all the time! Atticus the only adult on the side of Tom Robinson in the film.
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