Reading Journal #4_ To Kill A Mockingbird
Chapter28
Question #11_What are Jem's injuries, according to Dr. Reynolds?
On page 354, according to Dr. Reynolds stated Jem's injuries were a bump on the head and a broken arm. Additionally, "He's got a bad break, so far as I can tell now it's in the elbow."
Reading Journal #2_ To Kill A Mockingbird
DUE 7/12/2012 @10 p.m.
In full paragraph form, write answers to questions 8-12 from chapter 9 in your packet. Publish them to your website in your reading journal by the date and time listed above.
Question #8
How does Scout explain her behavior to Uncle Jack? According to her, what was unjust about the way he punished her? What does she then make him promise?
On bottom of page113 Scout explain that Uncle Jack never stopped to give me a change to tell you my side of it. You just lit right into me. Also, Uncle Jack told Scout never to use words like that except in ex-extreme provocation, and Francis provocated me enough to knock his block off. Francis called Atticus "A nigger-lover. After that, Scout asked him to promise that you will not tell Atticus about this.
Question#9
As Jack and Atticus talk together in the evening, Atticus says that Scout must "learn to keep her head" in the next few months. Why is he concerned about her?
On page 116, as Jack and Atticus talk together in evening, Atticus says that Scout must "learn to keep her head" in the next few months. He concerned about her because Scout coming along, though but Jem's getting older and she follows his example a good bit now. All she needs is assistance sometimes.
Question#10
What further information is provided about the Robinson case as the chapter comes to a close? What is Atticus's plan regarding the case?
On page 117, further information is Atticus intend to jar the jury a bit. Even though he would hoped to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed him and said "You are it." Also, Atticus's plan regarding the case is Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town.
Question#11
Near the end of chapter, Atticus refers to the ingrained racism among the residents of Maycomb. How does he describe racism in this passage? To what does he compare it?
On page 117, Atticus refers to the ingrained racism among the residents of Maycomb. He describe racism reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something he do not understand.
Question#12
Scout ends the chapter with the words, ".. I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said." Why do you think Atticus wanted Scout to hear what he said during his conversation with Uncle Jack?
I think Attcus wanted Scout to hear what he said during his conversation with Uncle Jack because he hopes that Jem and Scout trust him even though he defends Tom Robinson. Maycomb town just hates Negro because they are black but Atticus wants to their children get answer from their farther not from listening to the town.
Reading Journal #1 - To Kill a Mockingbird - 7/05/2012
DUE 7/08/2012 @ 5 p.m.
In full paragraph form, write answers to the questions you covered in your groups from chapters 1, 2, and 3. Please publish it to your Reading Journal by the date and time listed above.
<Chapter 1.>
What is frightening to the children about the Radley house? What lives in the house, according to Scout?
On page 10, children are frightening about a rumor. Rumor that Radley Place had long ago darkened to the color of the slate gray yard around it. Rain rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak tress kept the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard. In addition according to Scout, malevolent phantom lives in the house.
<Chapter 2.>
When Scout asks her father if they are as poor as the Cunninghams, how does he respond? Through Atticus's explanation, what does the reader learn about the Great Depression and how it affected different classes of people in different ways?
On page 27, when Scout asks her father about the Cunninghams, he responded "Not exactly." After that Atticus's explanation the reader learned about the Great Depression. He compared professional people were poor because farmers were poor. As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors, and dentists, and lawers. The acres not entailed were mortgaged to the hilt, and the little cash he made went to interest.
< Chapter3. >
What compromise does Atticus make with Scout at the end of the chapter?
Atticus make compromise with Scout at the end of the chapter which is " If you will concede the necessity of going to school, we will go on reading every night just as we always have."
DUE 7/12/2012 @10 p.m.
In full paragraph form, write answers to questions 8-12 from chapter 9 in your packet. Publish them to your website in your reading journal by the date and time listed above.
Question #8
How does Scout explain her behavior to Uncle Jack? According to her, what was unjust about the way he punished her? What does she then make him promise?
On bottom of page113 Scout explain that Uncle Jack never stopped to give me a change to tell you my side of it. You just lit right into me. Also, Uncle Jack told Scout never to use words like that except in ex-extreme provocation, and Francis provocated me enough to knock his block off. Francis called Atticus "A nigger-lover. After that, Scout asked him to promise that you will not tell Atticus about this.
Question#9
As Jack and Atticus talk together in the evening, Atticus says that Scout must "learn to keep her head" in the next few months. Why is he concerned about her?
On page 116, as Jack and Atticus talk together in evening, Atticus says that Scout must "learn to keep her head" in the next few months. He concerned about her because Scout coming along, though but Jem's getting older and she follows his example a good bit now. All she needs is assistance sometimes.
Question#10
What further information is provided about the Robinson case as the chapter comes to a close? What is Atticus's plan regarding the case?
On page 117, further information is Atticus intend to jar the jury a bit. Even though he would hoped to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed him and said "You are it." Also, Atticus's plan regarding the case is Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town.
Question#11
Near the end of chapter, Atticus refers to the ingrained racism among the residents of Maycomb. How does he describe racism in this passage? To what does he compare it?
On page 117, Atticus refers to the ingrained racism among the residents of Maycomb. He describe racism reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something he do not understand.
Question#12
Scout ends the chapter with the words, ".. I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said." Why do you think Atticus wanted Scout to hear what he said during his conversation with Uncle Jack?
I think Attcus wanted Scout to hear what he said during his conversation with Uncle Jack because he hopes that Jem and Scout trust him even though he defends Tom Robinson. Maycomb town just hates Negro because they are black but Atticus wants to their children get answer from their farther not from listening to the town.
Reading Journal #1 - To Kill a Mockingbird - 7/05/2012
DUE 7/08/2012 @ 5 p.m.
In full paragraph form, write answers to the questions you covered in your groups from chapters 1, 2, and 3. Please publish it to your Reading Journal by the date and time listed above.
<Chapter 1.>
What is frightening to the children about the Radley house? What lives in the house, according to Scout?
On page 10, children are frightening about a rumor. Rumor that Radley Place had long ago darkened to the color of the slate gray yard around it. Rain rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak tress kept the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard. In addition according to Scout, malevolent phantom lives in the house.
<Chapter 2.>
When Scout asks her father if they are as poor as the Cunninghams, how does he respond? Through Atticus's explanation, what does the reader learn about the Great Depression and how it affected different classes of people in different ways?
On page 27, when Scout asks her father about the Cunninghams, he responded "Not exactly." After that Atticus's explanation the reader learned about the Great Depression. He compared professional people were poor because farmers were poor. As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors, and dentists, and lawers. The acres not entailed were mortgaged to the hilt, and the little cash he made went to interest.
< Chapter3. >
What compromise does Atticus make with Scout at the end of the chapter?
Atticus make compromise with Scout at the end of the chapter which is " If you will concede the necessity of going to school, we will go on reading every night just as we always have."