Name _________________ Chunks O’ Thought for The Help For each assigned CHUNK of reading, take notes on the six categories below. Type your chapter chunks to turn in to me. 1. CHRONOLOGY: Instead of a summary, make a small list of events for your chosen set of chapters. 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. You may also include regional dialect. 3. ALLUSIONS: Identify at least one allusion or idiom. Look up its meaning and explain it. 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, notable, 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. Check your calendar for due dates of each Chunk installment Your first chunk, covering chapters 1-4, is due Friday March 13 EXAMPLE This is a sample Sammie Smart January 10, 2006 Chapter 1-4 Notes CHUNK 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 installment 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 or IDIOMS 1. stumphole whiskey: illegally made and sold whiskey that would be hidden in the holes of tree stumps. 2. nothing to fear but fear itself: an allusion to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address. 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. 2. It is realistic that in a small town, a family name often brings with it a reputation that townspeople apply to all members of that family. 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) Name Date Chapters #____ - ____ CHRONOLOGY 1. 2. 3. 4. Plot, characters & conflict VOCABULARY/DIALECT 1. 2. 3. ALLUSIONS or IDIOMS Word, definition, & synonym allusion=reference to history, music, art, religion, outside the text; idiom=a saying not meant to be taken literally A QUESTION COMMENTARY 1. 2. QUOTATION commentary on anything you think is interesting, notable, or important a significant/ interesting/ humorous/ poignant quotation from your chosen chapter. Type the quotation, the page #, and who said the quotation.