To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 5 Guide Reading Worksheet
#1. Provide three details we learn about Miss Maudie from Chapter 5.
#2. We learn that Boo Radley’s real name is ____________________________.
#3. Explain what you believe Miss Maudie means when she says “…sometimes The Bible in the hands of
one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of – oh, of your father.”
#4. Examine Scout’s conversation with Miss Maudie. Describe how Harper Lee creates sympathy for
Boo Radley?
#5. How the children decide they are going to communicate with Boo Radley?
#6. The children view Boo Radley as a strange and frightening figure. How do Miss Maudie and Atticus
view Boo Radley? What do you think causes the difference in their opinions?
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 6 & 7 Guided Reading Handout
#1. Three-part Question: Part 1 - What are Jem and Dill planning on doing that involves Boo Radley?
Part 2 – Why does Jem say they’ve waited until the last night of summer to do this? Part 3 – Explain why
Jem’s reasoning would make sense from a child’s point of view.
#2. Explain how Harper Lee uses the aftermath of the incident at The Radley house to give us a glimpse
into racism in the South. (HINT: Look at the reactions of the people afterwards)
#3. Two-part Question: Part 1. Identify Jem’s reason for wanting to go back and get his pants. Part 2.
Describe what this says about Jem’s values and his respect towards his father.
#4. Two-part Question: Part 1. Define “internal conflict.” Part 2. Describe Scout’s internal conflict when
Jem leaves to retrieve his pants.
#5. Identify the line towards the end of Chapter 6 that indicates that Jem has determined that what the
children did was wrong.
#6. Two-part Question: Question 1. In chapter 7, what does Scout mean when she says, “I tried to climb
in Jem’s skin and walk around it…?” Question 2. Why is this significant in context of the book?
#7. What does Jem confess to Scout about the night he went back to recover his pants from The Radley
house?
#8. What does Jem realize about the only times that he and Scout find gifts in the tree?
#9. Two-part Question: Part 1 -Who does Jem begin to suspect as the culprit for the gifts in the
knothole and mending his pants? Part 2 – Why is this significant?
#10. What does Nathan Radley answer when Jem asks about the tree and knothole?
#11. Two-part Question: Part 1 – Why is Jem crying at the end of chapter 7? Part 2 – What might Jem’s
reluctance to cry in front of Scout suggest?
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 8 Reading Guide
#1. What question do Jem and Scout ask Atticus when he returns from The Radley House?
#2. Why does Scout believe the world is ending?
#3. What does Jem build with the snow? Who/what does it resemble?
#4. Explain what the abnormal change in weather may foreshadow.
#5. What tragic event happens because of the cold weather?
#6. Two-part question: #1. Why will it take so long for the firetruck to arrive? #2. How do the men of
Maycomb try to help Miss Maudie during the fire?
#7. Explain why Atticus is angry with Jem and Scout after the fire.
#9. While discussing the source of the blanket with Jem and Scout, explain Atticus’ meaning when he
says “looks like all of Maycomb was out tonight, in one way or another.”