Language Arts Final 2017 Flashcards
Describe Scout’s teacher, Miss Carolina Fisher. What is Irrational about her teaching methods?
- young
- pretty
- from Northern Alabama
How did Scout learn to read and write?
Calpurnia had her write down Bible verses, Atticus read and pointed to words in the newspaper.
Describe the Cunningham clan.
they would never take anything they can’t pay back.
When Scout asks her father if they are as poor as the Cunninghams, how does he respond? Through Atticus’s, what does the reader learn about the Great Depression and how it affected different classes of people in different ways?
not exactly, there isn’t a lot of money.
Why does Miss Caroline punish Scout?
because she was being rude/disrespectful
What does Scout do to make Calpurnia furious? What lesson does Calpurnia teach her?
Scout said something mean out loud; and that some people can’t eat good food like her.
Who are the Ewells, and why are they treated differently than others? Identify the “certain privileges” they get.
- The Ewells are not like the others
- They only go to school for 1 day (the first day)
Compare the education levels of Scout, Walter Cunningham, and Burris Ewell. How do these comparisons emphasize the relationship between class and education?
- Scout and Walter had to go to school for the whole year
- Burris only had to go to school for 1 day (the first day)
What important lesson does Atticus teach Scout about understanding people? How might this lesson help her?
- Put yourself in the other person’s shoes
- Look from their perspective
What compromise does Atticus make with Scout at the end of the chapter?
If she goes to school he will keep reading to her.
What does Scout find in one of the trees at the edge of the Radley lot? Several days later, she and Jem find something else in the tree. What do they find? What do they decide to do with these items?
- The first time they found 2 sticks of gum.
- The second time they found 2 polished pennies
- They said “Finders Keepers”
