This lesson contains 30 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Items in this lesson
Chapter 9
Christmas at Finch's Landing
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Slide 2 - Video
In chapter 9 the writer uses an allusion, what kind of literary device is an allusion?
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Slide 3 - Open question
Harper Lee expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text. Why does To Kill a Mockingbird allude to the Civil War? page 84
Slide 4 - Open question
return to Chapter 1
Listen carefully to the reading from the beginning of the book.
Then write a short summary of
the existence of Finch's Landing.
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Slide 5 - Slide
summary
the Finch family were Southerners. Simon Finch had emigrated from Cornwall England to Mobile. Simon Finch 'made a pile practicing medicine'. he bought three slaves and built a homestaed o the banks of Alabama River.
The custom was for the men to remain on Simon's homestead. The Landing was self-sufficient except for ice, flour and clothing that was brought by boat to the landing.
Atticus was the first Finch not to remain at Finch's Landing, his sister Alexandra Finch remained in his stead.
Slide 6 - Slide
Chapter 9 turn to page 88
a bluff = A steep cliff, or bank
a jetty = A landing stage or small pier at which boats can dock or be moored
a bale = A large wrapped or bound bundle of paper, hay, or cotton
a two-rut-road =
two-storeyed white house with
porches
Slide 7 - Slide
Read about Finch's Landing page 88-89. What does the description of Finch's Landing allude to?
Slide 8 - Open question
Vocabulary chapter 9
postponement
indicative
guilessness
p.90 attire
p.92 tentatively
Slide 9 - Slide
postponement John Taylor was kind enough to give us a postponement... what does the word mean?
Slide 10 - Open question
indicative The internal arragements of the Finch house were indicative of Simon's guilessness and absolute trust which he regarded his offspring. what does indicative mean?
Slide 11 - Open question
p.92 he asked tentatively
Slide 12 - Open question
what does guilessness mean?
Slide 13 - Open question
attire
Slide 14 - Open question
The casual tone with which Scout uses a racial slur suggests that..
A
she's using it in a malicious way
B
she’s parroting language she’s heard others use.
C
she 's saying it on purpose so that Atticus won't send her to school again
Slide 15 - Quiz
page 83 -84
1)How does Atticus explain his reasons for defending Tom Robinson?
2)What factors influenced his choice to take the case seriously?
3) How does he expect the case will turn out?
( 2:03 -3:54)
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3. Pg. 83 -84 How does Atticus explain his reasons for defending Tom Robinson? What factors influenced his choice to take the case seriously? How does he expect the case will turn out? ( 2:44 -3:54)
Slide 17 - Open question
Pg. 87 why is Scout cursing? What is the difference between how her father, Atticus, responds and her uncle Jack? page 87 and page 97
Slide 18 - Open question
What metaphor followed by a simile does Alexandra use to decsribe the role that Scout should play in het father's life because she is a girl?
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Discussing the Tom Robinson case with Uncle Jack, Atticus refers to "Maycomb's usual disease."What does he mean? Why doesn't he suffer from it?
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Slide 20 - Slide
Chapter 10: “It’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird” + Mad dog shooting
Tim Johnson VS Tom Robinson – Symbolism
Slide 21 - Slide
1. What do we learn at the beginning of Chapter 10 about the way that Scout and Jem feel about Atticus?
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Slide 22 - Open question
Page 99
Atticus instructs Scout and Jem that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
What does this advice mean? Look for evidence in the text to help you explain it.
Slide 23 - Slide
3. Atticus instructs Scout and Jem that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” What does this advice mean? Look for evidence in the text to help you explain it.
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Slide 24 - Open question
How does this advice help explain why Scout and Jem did not know that their father was “the deadest shot in Maycomb County”? How does Miss Maudie explain Atticus’s feelings about his sharpshooting skills?
Slide 25 - Open question
2. Everything we know about the events in To Kill a Mockingbird is filtered through Scout’s perspective. Take a moment to imagine what some of the other characters might think about the events you have read about.
Write a diary entry about the mad dog incident from either Jem’s or Atticus’s point of view. How do you think their perspective would be different from Scout’s?
(word count 300)
Slide 26 - Slide
Both the mockingbird and the mad dog are symbols. Based on what you have read so far, what or who in this story might the mockingbird symbolize? What or who might the mad dog symbolize? Look for evidence to support or refute your hypothesis as you read the rest of the novel.
Slide 27 - Open question
5. Throughout the story you read that Scout and Jem are parting ways. How do Scout and Jem continue to “part ways” in this chapter? How do they interpret the revelation of Atticus’s sharpshooting skills differently? Pg. 130
Slide 28 - Open question
6. Describe the pacing of this chapter. What does the pacing suggest about how Harper Lee views the importance of the events in this chapter?
Slide 29 - Open question
How does this advice help explain why Scout and Jem did not know that their father was “the deadest shot in Maycomb County”? How does Miss Maudie explain Atticus’s feelings about his sharpshooting skills?