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.