October 12 & 13

1. October 12 & 13 Outcome: You will identify details about the setting that show how the Radleys are different than the Maycomb community. • Literary Elements Pre-Test (CPS) • TKAM Vocabulary (ch. 1-4) • To Kill a Mockingbird • Preview cover • Begin reading chapter 1 • Begin filling out setting graphic organizer • HW: Chapters 1-2, reading journal

2. EXAMPLE:“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe • Summary: • Montresors wants to get revenge on Fortunato for insulting him. He meets Fortunato, a wine connoisseur, during a festival and tells him that he has a pipe of Amontillado wine that he doubts is genuine. Fortunato insists on returning to Montresors’ home to check the wine’s authenticity. Montresors leads him through the catacombs, often noting Fortunato’s health and offering to turn back, before they reach a remote area of the rooms. Fortunato enters a niche between two columns where he thinks the wine is stored, but it is a trick. Montresors chains him to the wall, uncovers bricks and mortar, and begins bricking Fortunato into the wall. Fortunato becomes sober as he realizes what is happening and screams, he then becomes silent, and finally laughs, hoping this is a joke. Montresors finishes the wall, but when Fortunato does not answer his calls, he becomes sick at heart (he claims from the dampness), piles up the bones, and leaves. It has been at least 50 years since this event took place.

3. Quote bank: • p. 87 Montresors explains his definition of revenge as he prepares to tell his story. • “I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes the redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.” • Montresors has planned his revenge carefully to avoid any possibility of formal punishment, but he seems troubled by his conscience at the end of the story. • p. 89 Montresors is trying to talk Fortunato into turning back because of his cough. • “ ‘Come,’ I said, with decision, “we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter.” • Apparently Fortunato’s insult must have caused some major change in Montresors’ life. By contrasting his current state with Fortunato’s he implicitly lays blame on Fortunato for his fall. • p. 92 Fortunato screams when he realizes what is happening. • “For a brief moment I hesitated – I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant reassured me. I placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs, and felt satisfied.” • Montresors is briefly afraid that he might be discovered because of the screams, but realizes that the catacombs are sound-proof.

4. To Kill a MockingbirdChapters 1-4 Vocabulary Please spell out each word as it is called out to you.

5. Correct Spelling • 1. nebulous • 2. malevolent • 3. vapid • 4. auspicious • 5. abominable • 6. quell • 7. evasion • 8. melancholy

6. Please copy the word’s definition and part of speech • 1. nebulous—(adj.) cloudy, misty, or hazy • 2. malevolent—(adj.) evil • 3. vapid—(adj.) dull or boring • 4. auspicious—(adj.) promising • 5. abominable—(adj.) horrid • 6. quell—(verb) to ease or overcome • 7. evasion—(noun) avoidance • 8. melancholy—(adj.) causing sadness

7. Maycomb Physical Description: • Tired old town • Dirt roads (red slop in rainy weather) • Grass in sidewalk, courthouse sags • Hot • People had gardens in yard Cultural Description: • Men wore stiff collars • Ladies took 3:00 naps • No hurry – nothing to do & no $ • Vague optimism: “nothing to fear but fear itself” FDR • Black servants for town families • Corporal punishment (spanking) for children • Children play outside – occupy themselves • No movie theatres – special occasion religious movies at courthouse • Nuclear family is the norm (not much divorce)

8. Radley House • Physical Description: • Low, once white (dirty, slate gray now, blends w/ yard) • Dirt yard, not kept neat, weeds grow • Next to school house (kids would not eat pecans from their trees – poison) • Background: Boo & Cunninghams form gang (dance, gamble, go to town for movies, drink whiskey) steal a car, lock sheriff in outhouse, arrested, others sent to state industrial school – Radley kept @ home 15 yrs. • According to Miss Stephanie: Boo stabbed father in leg w/scissors, tried to send to asylum – Radley said no, Boo locked in courthouse basement, moved back home • According to Calpurnia: (Mr. Radley) meanest man God blew breath into • Customs/values: • Misery • Kept to themselves – don’t socialize, speak to neighbors • Do not go to church (worship @ home) • Took word of God as only law • Mr. Radley doesn’t work (bought cotton), goes to town 11:30-12:00 • Radleys keep doors and shutters closed • “other ways of making people into ghosts” • Mrs. R waters flowers in yard • Mr. Nathan Radley (brother) takes Mr. R’s place when Mr. R dies