1. To Kill a Mockingbird Lessons, Activities, and Homework

2. Do Now: 1.Get started on your silent reading. DictionaryLand peeps, letter “B”. 2.Place your novel on your desk. If you do not have it you will be getting a detention. April 23 2015 Reminde rs: I am updating the website again now that I’m back. Agenda: 1.Silent reading 2.Quiz Ch.1-3 3.Rev. Ch. 2 & 3 4.Working with Chapters 4-6 Homework: 1.Finish reading Ch. 4-6 at home and complete your notes chart! Last Class: Reviewed Ch.1 Started Ch.2 & 3 Next Class: Ch.7-9 Our Learning Focus for Today: 1.Analyze fictional text and make connections to characters and plot events. 2.Demonstrate understanding of conflict in writing. 3.Analyze subplot and motif to determine how characters develop through coming-of-age experiences. 4.Make predictions, form inferences, draw conclusions, and find evidence to support analysis.

3. Conflict Think about the different kinds of conflicts we have studied. Internal conflict: occurs when a character struggles between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within his or her own mind. External conflict: occurs when a character struggles against an outside force, such as another character, society, or nature. Using the graphic organizer below, brainstorm examples of conflicts from your life, the world, books, television, or films. Internal Conflict: Man vs. Self Conflict w/own needs, desires, emotions External Conflict: Man vs. Man Struggles against another person External Conflict: Man vs. Society Struggles against laws or expectations External Conflict: Man vs. Nature Struggles against the physical world

4. Chapter Two You will now work with your shoulder partner to locate textual evidence that demonstrate the conflict between Scout and Miss Caroline in Chapter 2. Write quotes and commentary to explain why these two are “starting off on the wrong foot in every way.” ScoutMiss Caroline 1.Quote and Commentary 2.Quote and Commentary 3.Quote and Commentary 1.Quote and Commentary 2.Quote and Commentary 3.Quote and Commentary

5. Chapter Three You will now go back into Chapter 3. Fill in the circles below, making connections to Scout’s first-day-of-school experiences. text-to-self: when the text makes you think of your own life text-to-text: when the text makes you think of another text text-to-world: when the text makes you think of world events

6. Preparing to Read Go back to the pages in Chapter 1 that introduce the story of Boo Radley, from “According to neighborhood legend…” to “…he drooled most of the time.” Complete the graphic organizer below to separate fact from rumor and provide textual evidence of each. Add your own questions about Boo’s story and your opinion or personal commentary. Boo Radley’s Story Textual Evidence Questions/Com mentary Facts Rumors

7. Chapters 4-6 In Chapters 4–6, the children are beginning to come of age as they question their assumptions about Boo and the Radley place. As you read these three chapters, take note of significant details. Use the chart below to record the following: Questions &Commentary PredictionsInferences & Conclusions Questions and/or commentary about details related to Boo or the Radley Place. Predictions about how details will be developed later in the text. Inferences and conclusions that you draw from “reading between the lines” of suggestive details.