To Kill A Mockingbird: Experiencing the Old South through Evidence-Based Claims and Close Reading `

Independent Reading By yourself, read chapter s eight and nine of To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. Insert: Ernest Hemmingway

Forming EBC: To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee MATERIALS: To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee Notebook Forming EBC worksheets

EBC: To Kill A Mockingbird Join your small group. Pair Up. Each pair will form a EBC claim. Pair A will form and support a claim on Miss Maudie; Pair B will form and support a claim about Dill Harris. Pair C will form and support a claim about the growing tensions between Jem and Scout. The teacher has the students work in small groups (even numbers, preferably six students per). After the students have read chapters six and seven, the student pairs will complete three Forming EBC forms; one EBC (student pair) will find textual evidence and make a claim about the character of Miss Maudie; the second will find textual evidence and make a claim about Dill Harris and the third will do the same for the growing tensions between Jem and Scout. Insert: The Village People

Making EBC Claims With your partner, use your text, notes and other recorded observations to make an evidence-based claim on your assigned topic. Remember to use quotations, paraphrasing and inferences. Include all pages cited. The teacher has the students work in small groups (even numbers, preferably six students per). After the students have read chapters six and seven, the student pairs will complete three Forming EBC forms; one EBC (student pair) will find textual evidence and make a claim about the character of Miss Maudie; the second will find textual evidence and make a claim about Dill Harris and the third will do the same for the growing tensions between Jem and Scout. Be prepared to share your information with your group.

Charles Baker “Dill” Harris Claim: Supporting Evidence and Page Found Charles Baker “Dill” Harris -  Jem and Scout’s summer neighbor and friend. Dill is a diminutive, confident boy with an active imagination. He becomes fascinated with Boo Radley and represents the perspective of childhood innocence throughout the novel. - Sparknotes.com

Miss Maudie Atkinson  Claim: Supporting Evidence and Page Found

Jem and Scout Claim: Supporting Evidence and Page Found

Independent Reading By yourself, read chapter ten and eleven (end of Part One) of To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. Insert: Bill Cosby (as Little Bill)