To Kill A Mockingbird

1. To Kill A Mockingbird Day 19

2. Agenda • Warm up • Storyboarding Ch. 14 • Review of Ch. 14 / Summary • Exit

3. Homework • Finish your storyboard (this will be part of your portfolio / scrapbook with the timeline, letter and other items) • Read Ch. 15 • Summary • Vocab.

4. Guiding Questions • Why is it important to stand up for a cause you believe in?

5. Warm Up Why would you stand up for someone like Tom Robinson? Explain

6. Ch. 14 • The previous incident (at the end of Ch. 13) is enough to make Aunt Alexandra shut up about the Finch Family Pride, just in time for Scout to get some hints that the townspeople are obsessed with the Finch Family Shame. • After overhearing a passer-by’s cryptic comment, Scout asks Atticus what rape is. • Atticus defines it for her as “carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent” (14.5) • Scout doesn’t really get what that means, and asks Atticus why Calpurnia wouldn’t explain it to her, leading to the story of how Calpurnia took Scout and Jem to her church.

7. Aunt Alexandra is none to pleased to find this out, and inserts a resounding “no” into the conversation when Scout asks Atticus if she can visit Calpurnia. • Scout turns rudely on her aunt for intruding into her conversation with Atticus, but her father makes her apologize. • Trying to save face, Scout goes to hide in the bathroom, and returns to overhear her aunt and father quarrelling about an unnamed “her.” • Scout is worried that she’s the “her,” and feels “the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on” her (14.24). • Eventually she figures out with relief that it’s Calpurnia they’re talking about: Alexandra wants to fire her, but Atticus won’t hear of it.

8. As Scout reenters the room, Aunt Alexandra vents her emotions by stabbing her embroidery angrily. • Jem pulls Scout out of the room and tells her to try not to get on her aunt’s nerves. • Scout bristles at Jem’s assumption that he can tell her what to do and his insistence on talking like he’s so much older and wiser than her. • When he threatens to spank her if she misbehaves again, she flies at him, taking advantage of his weak position to pummel him – her holding her own in the fight, she thinks, shows that they are still equals. • Atticus comes in and pulls them off each other. • The siblings become united again when they overhear Aunt Alexandra launching yet another attack on their way of life.

9. On the way to bed, Scout steps on something and thinks it’s a snake. • She calls Jem in to investigate, who pokes under her bed with a broom, only to find a very hungry Dill hiding there. • Dill tells a story (actually two, mutually contradictory stories) about how he escaped from his cruel father and journeyed to Maycomb, and Scout brings him some food. • Jem breaks the no-tattling rule of childhood and calls in Atticus to tell him about Dill. • Atticus gets Dill some more food and goes to tell Miss Rachel that her nephew has arrived in Maycomb. • Scout and Dill hold a grudge against Jem for a short time, but give it up before bedtime. • After Scout has been asleep for a while, she wakes up to find Dill joining her in bed. • Scout asks Dill why he ran away, and Dill eventually tells her that he felt like his mom and her new boyfriend weren’t paying him any attention and didn’t want him around. • Scout says that her problem is that her family pays her too much attention, but realizes that she would hate it if she didn’t feel like they needed