Chunks O’ Thought for The Hobbit
For each CHUNK of reading, choose one chapter to write chapter notes on. Type your chapter
notes entry to turn in to me. YOU WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF SIX TYPED CHAPTER “CHUNKS”
TO TURN IN.
1. CHRONOLOGY: Instead of a summary, make a small list of events for your chosen chapter.
List the events/details in order. Include AT LEAST 4 details.
2. VOCABULARY: Include 3 unfamiliar words with clear definitions. Provide a synonym if
possible.
3. ALLUSIONS: Identify/define an allusion, idiom, OR a reference to “history” outside of this
particular story.
4. QUESTION: Type one or more questions about anything in the chapter.
5. COMMENTARY: Write two comments about anything in the chapter that you think is interesting
or important.
6. QUOTATION: Pull out a significant/ interesting/ humorous/ poignant quotation from your chosen
chapter. Type the quotation, the page #, and who said the quotation.
Each entry will be graded for the above items. Example on back 
Due dates of each Chunk installment are:
Chapters 1-3 chunk: Tuesday, Sept. 25
Chapters 4-6 chunk: Wed. Sept. 26 (5th period) or Thur. Sept. 27 (6thperiod)
Chapters 7-9 chunk: Friday, Sept. 28
Chapters 10-13 chunk: Monday, Oct. 1 (5th period) or Tuesday, Oct. 2 (6th period)
Chapters 14-17 chunk: Wednesday, Oct. 3 (5th period) or Thursday, Oct. 4 (6th period)
Chapters 18-19 chunk: Friday, Oct. 5
Seminar and essay assigned: Friday, Oct. 5
Don’t forget -- you’ll also create a Lit.Review page for this novel.
Example of one CHUNK on the back 
Example taken from the novel
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Sammie Smart
Septembere 10, 2011
Chapter 1 Notes
To Kill a Mockingbird
CHRONOLOGY
1. Scout and Jem meet Dill
2. Dill is fascinated with Boo Radley
3. There is a rumor that Boo stabbed his father in the leg with scissors
4. Jem runs up to the Radley house and touches it with his hand
VOCABULARY
1. apothecary (n.): an early form of a pharmacist, apothecaries could also prescribe drugs.
2. assuaged (v.): to assuage is to lessen or to calm. Therefore, if Jem's fears about being
able to play football were assuaged, it means that he no longer feared that he wouldn't
be able to play the sport.
3. taciturn (adj.): almost always silent. Apparently, Aunt Alexandra's husband was a very
quiet man.
ALLUSIONS
1. stumphole whiskey: illegally made and sold whiskey that would be hidden in the holes of
tree stumps (page 12).
2. nothing to fear but fear itself: an allusion to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural
Address (page 22).
QUESTIONS
Why does Scout call her father by his first name?
COMMENTARY
1. Even though Scout is speaking from a child’s perspective, she still uses a wide
vocabulary. Is this realistic for such a young child?
2. It is sooo true -- that small town families often have a reputation that people apply to all
members of the family. I remember my maternal grandmother talking about “all the
Dickinsons” from way back when were stubborn and hard-working; this she said in
reference to my own father.
QUOTATIONS
“The sheriff hadn’t the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was locked in the
courthouse basement.” (page 11, Scout)