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Ch.1 Dill's INTRO
They first hear Dill when he is playing in his aunts Garden and He introduces himself as Charles Baker Harris (4) -
Chapter 1).BOO! Radley
Boo Radley is Introduced as a "Bad Boy" and the secret almost
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Jem Touches IT
In order to show dill the jem isn't Scared Jem runs up and touches THE RADLEY HOUSE -
Scout and Jem start school. Chapter 2, page 20-21
Scout starts school for the first time, entering in the first grade. And Jem returns to school in the fifth grade. Scout learns how different school is from their life at home. On the first day, she gets hauled to the front of the class, and Miss Caroline, her teacher, smacks her hand with a ruler. Scout's experiencing discipline, and her thoughts of school went from not being able to wait to start school, to wanting to be anywhere but school. -
Miss Caroline learns Scout can already read. Chapter 2, page 22
Miss Caroline puts the alphabet on the board, and Scout already knows it. Miss Caroline asks Scout to read, and is not happy that she already knows how to. Miss Caroline assumes that Atticus has taught Scout to read and that causes problems with her because Atticus isn’t a real teacher. -
Walter refuses a quarter- Chapter 2 page. 26
Miss Caroline asks all her students to place their lunches on their desks. When she realises Walter Cunnigham doesn't have a lunch, or money to pay for a lunch, she offers him a quarter. Walter politely refuses, in order to maintain pride in himself/his family. As a Cunningham, he doesn't take things that he can't return, or give back in some way. He knew he wouldn't be able to get her quarter back to her, so he denied it. Scout had to inform Miss Caroline about the family names/dynamics in town -
Cunninghams pay the Finch's back- chapter 2 page. 27
To pay them back, Mr. Cunningham leaves a wood pile on their back porch, hickory nuts on the steps, a crate of smilax and holly, and a crokersack full of turnip greens. Mr. Cunningham pays the Finch's in this way because they don't have the money to just pay them back. The Cunnigham's have great pride, and to maintain it they give back, as much as they can. -
Chapter2). The Corner
In Scouts attempt to be Helpful she is sent to the Corner as a punishment!!!!!!!!!!!! #CornerOfDoom -
Chapter 3 Pages 32-40
Scout catches Walter in the schoolyard and beats him up because she thinks he is the reason that she got in trouble, jem has to intervene with the fight -
Chapter 3 Pages 32-40
Jem invites Walter to lunch with Scout and himself. Walter is shocked because he is not used to accepting things that are not his. -
Chapter 3 Page 36-40
Walter is surprised by all of the “riches” the Finches have in their house,since Walter is poor he is not used to having nice things. Walter precedes to pour syrup on his lunch since it sounded good to him, Scout is horrified and yells at him. -
Chapter 3 Pages 32-34
Calpurina pulls Scout away from Jem and Walter and scolds and slaps her for making fun of Walter. -
Chapter 3 Pages 34-36
Miss Caroline see’s Burris Ewell’s "cootie" , a cootie is really lice that has gotten in Burris's hair. Miss Caroline freaks out from the lice. -
Chapter 3 Pages 34-38
Burris Ewell only goes to school on the first day of every year to avoid getting in trouble by the law. -
Chapter 3 Pages 38-41
Scout is very unhappy with the first day of school makes plans to run away from home. Atticus talks Scout into staying home and gets her to open up to him. -
Chapter 3 Pages 38-40
Scout wants to quit school and have Atticus teach her himself. -
Chapter 3 Pages 38-41
Scout is promised by Atticus that they will continue to read at home even if Miss Caroline does not want Atticus to read to Scout anymore. -
Chapter 4 pg. 35,36
Figurative Meaning:
Should they keep it? Chewing gum is one thing, but money is another entirely.
Literal Meaning:
They dont want to keep the money because they don’t want to be known as “poor” and that they take handouts. But they are questioning it this time because they found the money and it wasn’t given to them. But they also found it on the radley’s property so it technically it’s not theirs to take. -
Chapter 4 pg. 35,36
Literal Meaning:
Scout finds all these gifts in a knot hole in a tree by the radley house.
Figurative Meaning:
Even though scout finds the little “gifts” in a tree by the Radley house she still does not understand who is putting them in the knot hole. -
Chapter 4 pg. 53,54
Literal Meaning:
Jem invents a new game: acting out the life and times of Boo Radley.
Figurative Meaning:
Since the Finches live in a small town they really don’t have anything to do, so they have to make up their own games to have fun. -
Chapter 4
Pg 45-46 Scout finds the gum and licks it, she says “she didn’t die, so she crammed it in her mouth”.-Figuritive Meaning she doesn’t understand that even though things may seem safe on the outside that doesn’t mean they really are. -
Chapter 4 pg. 54
Literal Meaning:
scout does not like how jem and dill decide to find a way around atticus saying that they cannot play the boo radley game.
Figurative Meaning:
She is just know realizing that people will lie and stretch the truth to benefit themselves. the thought of this makes her very uneasy. -
Chapter 4
Part 1 Pg 45-46 One day, while running past the Radley house on her way home from school, Scout notices some gum in the knothole of a tree overhanging the Radley's fence. And on the last day of school, Scout and Jem find two old pennies in the same knothole. Jem stares at the Radley place, deep in thought.-Figuritive Meaning The three-year age difference makes Jem more perceptive than Scout. Scout doesn't know who's leaving the presents, while Jem's long look at the Radley House indicates he -
Chapter 4
Part 2 Pg45-46 Senses Boo is trying to connect with them. In the children's' blissful world, Boo Radley continues to be their obsession. Jem's lie to Atticus shows that though he thinks of himself as an adult, he is still selfish and irresponsible like a child -
Jem and Dill grow closer, and Scout begins to feel left out of their friendship.
As a result, she starts spending much of her time with one of their neighbors: Miss Maudie Atkinson, a widow with a talent for gardening and cake baking who was a childhood friend of Atticus’s brother, Jack. -
Scout talks to Miss Maudie about Boo Radley.
She tells Scout that Boo Radley is still alive and it is her theory Boo is the victim of a harsh father. -
Jem, Dill, and Scout try to give Mr. Radley a note, but Atticus stops them.
They try to stick the note in a window of the Radley Place with a fishing pole, but Atticus catches them and orders them to “stop tormenting that man” with either notes or the “Boo Radley” game. -
Miss Maudie says that Boo was always polite and friendly as a child
he says that most of the rumors about him are false, but that if he wasn’t crazy as a boy, he probably is by now. -
Facing your fears.
-During this chapter, it’s Dill’s last night before he goes back to Meridian. Jem and Dill decide to go to the Radley House. They are still young but old enough to conquer their fear of the house. Scout, on the other hand isn't, and doesn't want to go with them. This event is about facing your fears. -
Honor
After running from the Radley house, Jem decides to go back for his pants. Scout doesn't understand why he wants to. Jem needs to get them because he doesn't want to loose the respect he has with Atticus. -
Chapter 7 Starting school
Scout starts second grade. It's just as bad as first grade -
Ch. 7 Radley Place Adventure
After his adventures at the Radley Place, Jem is in a bad mood for a week. -
Chapter 7 Confessing
Jem finally tells Scout what happened when he went back to the Radley House: his pants were folded up on top of the fence, and the tear in them had been sloppily mended. -
Ch. 7 Knot tree
Passing by the knothole tree, they see a ball of twine resting inside it. -
Ch. 7 the knothole
Scout wants to take it, but Jem thinks it might be someone's hiding spot -
Scout and Jem find their best tresure yet.
A few months later, the knothole holds their best find yet. -
August 1st
School starts again & Scout attends 2nd grade. Scout still doesn't like school because of his teacher, and Jem says it'll just get better. -
August 2nd
Jem finds his pants fixed and over the fence
after school that day, Jem and Scout find a present in the knothole: a ball of grey twine -
August 3rd
Jem and Scout find a present in the knothole: a ball of grey twine in the fall, another present is left in the knothole in the tree, and it is a soap carving of scout and Jem -
August 4th
The next day the knothole is filled with cement -
August 5th
Jem asks Mr. Radley why he did that to the tree, and Nathan Radley says that he plugged it because the tree was dying
