1. Get out a) your planner, b) your To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Guide and turn to Chapter Sixteen Study Questions. Let’s answer them.

2.  Homework:  Read to the end of Chapter 17.  Topic submission form due tomorrow!  Friday, we’ll take the whole day to research.

3. Reading 2.5: Extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.

4. Let’s re-read pages where Atticus discusses the group of men at the jailhouse. Focus question: What word does he use to describe this group of men? Think, pair, share: what connotations are associated with that word?

5.  Get out your To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Guide and turn to Chapter Sixteen’s Analysis.

6.  In Chapters 15-16, we see MOB MENTALITY  “Mob Mentality” = how a group of normally ethical people change the way they think/behave in a group.  When one person makes an unethical decision and convinces other people to follow, mob mentality is created and causes people to act/behave in ways that their ethics would otherwise be against.  How do we see mob mentality in these chapters?  What is one example from our real world in which we’ve seen mob mentality happen?

7.  It’s strange that a normally quiet courtroom is packed with observers on the day of Tom Robinson’s trial. The townspeople are taking it so light-heartedly as to picnic in front of the courthouse as they wait for the trial.  What TONE does the author seem to be displaying towards the Maycomb citizens?  REVIEW: What is tone?  What is Lee trying to suggest about this civilized society?  What textual evidence do we have to support this?

8.  Let’s continue reading Chapter 17 of To Kill a Mockingbird.  Homework: Read to the end of Chapter 17.