1 / 25

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird. Chapter One. Do Now!. Answer the following question in the reading section of your journals. Please copy the question and date your notes!

daxia
Download Presentation

To Kill a Mockingbird

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter One

  2. Do Now! • Answer the following question in the reading section of your journals. Please copy the question and date your notes! • Why would the author choose to present a first-person limited point of view rather than an omniscient one? What advantage is there to using the first-person limited?

  3. Now that you’ve read Chapter One… • What are your initial reactions?

  4. Major Theme • Through the eyes of a child

  5. Opening Quote • Lawyers, I suppose, were children once

  6. Jem Finch • What do we know about him?

  7. Brother/Sister Relationship • Scout knows when to leave Jem alone

  8. Scout and Dill • Mature or immature?

  9. Suspense/The Radley House • Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom

  10. Ancestry—how important is it? • Everyone knows everyone • “they were Haverfords…a name synonymous with jackass” • What does this tell us about family names?

  11. The Finch Siblings and the Finch Landing • Finch Landing: owned slaves, disliked the North, slow to change • Alexandra Traditional • Jack • Atticus Nontraditional

  12. Practicing of Law • What made Atticus have a “profound distaste for practicing criminal law”? • Why do you think that is? • How do you think this might come into play?

  13. Maycomb, Alabama • What’s the town like? • What are the people like?

  14. Atticus as a father • We found our father satisfactory • Courteous detachment • Why do his children call him by his first name?

  15. Calpurnia • Description of her: • Calpurnia rarely comments on the ways of White people but comments on Mr. Radley

  16. Dill • What do we know about him? • Mature or immature?

  17. The Radleys • What do we know about their way of life? • How is this different than the rest of Maycomb? • Why would there be rumors about this family?

  18. Making someone a ghost • Atticus tells Jem there are other ways of making a person into a ghost besides keeping them locked up… what do you think he means? • Do you think he’s referring to Arthur or the legend of Boo?

  19. Mr. Radley • What’s he like? • Does he fit with the image of the Radley house?

  20. Miss Stephanie Crawford • What do we know about her?

  21. People said the house died • How does this add to the suspense of the story?

  22. Child’s imagination? • Where do we see childhood and imagination?

  23. Foreshadow • End of chapter one

  24. Theme Questions • Each table is responsible for answering one of the following questions on an index card. Use full sentences and create a well-thought out response. Turn the card in to Miss Lewis when you are finished. Please put your names and the number of the question you answered on the top

  25. Through the Eyes of Youth • Is the loss of innocence inevitable? • How does a child’s perspective of the world differ from an adult’s? • Is it better to be naïve or to be aware? • Do adverse events have the capability to steal the innocence of youth? • What happens when youth try to grow up too quickly? • Are youth capable of having/understanding adult emotions and issues? • Is there a price for the early loss of innocence?

More Related