October 12 & 13

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October 12 13

• Outcome You will identify details about the
  setting that show how the Radleys are different
  than the Maycomb community.
• Literary Elements Pre-Test (CPS)
• TKAM Vocabulary (ch. 1-4)
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Preview cover
• Begin reading chapter 1
• Begin filling out setting graphic organizer
• HW Chapters 1-2, reading journal

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EXAMPLEThe Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan
Poe

• Summary
• Montresors wants to get revenge on Fortunato for
  insulting him. He meets Fortunato, a wine
  connoisseur, during a festival and tells him that
  he has a pipe of Amontillado wine that he doubts
  is genuine. Fortunato insists on returning to
  Montresors home to check the wines
  authenticity. Montresors leads him through the
  catacombs, often noting Fortunatos health and
  offering to turn back, before they reach a remote
  area of the rooms. Fortunato enters a niche
  between two columns where he thinks the wine is
  stored, but it is a trick. Montresors chains him
  to the wall, uncovers bricks and mortar, and
  begins bricking Fortunato into the wall.
  Fortunato becomes sober as he realizes what is
  happening and screams, he then becomes silent,
  and finally laughs, hoping this is a joke.
  Montresors finishes the wall, but when Fortunato
  does not answer his calls, he becomes sick at
  heart (he claims from the dampness), piles up the
  bones, and leaves. It has been at least 50 years
  since this event took place.
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Quote bank

• p. 87 Montresors explains his definition of
  revenge as he prepares to tell his story.
• I must not only punish, but punish with
  impunity. A wrong is unredressed when
  retribution overtakes the redresser. It is
  equally unredressed when the avenger fails to
  make himself felt as such to him who has done the
  wrong.
• Montresors has planned his revenge carefully to
  avoid any possibility of formal punishment, but
  he seems troubled by his conscience at the end of
  the story.
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• p. 89 Montresors is trying to talk Fortunato
  into turning back because of his cough.
• Come, I said, with decision, we will go
  back your health is precious. You are rich,
  respected, admired, beloved you are happy, as
  once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me
  it is no matter.
• Apparently Fortunatos insult must have caused
  some major change in Montresors life. By
  contrasting his current state with Fortunatos he
  implicitly lays blame on Fortunato for his fall.
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• p. 92 Fortunato screams when he realizes what is
  happening.
• For a brief moment I hesitated I trembled.
  Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it
  about the recess but the thought of an instant
  reassured me. I placed my hand upon the solid
  fabric of the catacombs, and felt satisfied.
• Montresors is briefly afraid that he might be
  discovered because of the screams, but realizes
  that the catacombs are sound-proof.

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To Kill a MockingbirdChapters 1-4 Vocabulary

• Please spell out each word as it is called out to
  you.

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Correct Spelling

• 1. nebulous
• 2. malevolent
• 3. vapid
• 4. auspicious
• 5. abominable
• 6. quell
• 7. evasion
• 8. melancholy

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Please copy the words definition and part of
speech

• 1. nebulous(adj.) cloudy, misty, or hazy
• 2. malevolent(adj.) evil
• 3. vapid(adj.) dull or boring
• 4. auspicious(adj.) promising
• 5. abominable(adj.) horrid
• 6. quell(verb) to ease or overcome
• 7. evasion(noun) avoidance
• 8. melancholy(adj.) causing sadness

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Maycomb

• Cultural Description
• Men wore stiff collars
• Ladies took 300 naps
• No hurry nothing to do no
• Vague optimism nothing to fear but fear
  itself FDR
• Black servants for town families
• Corporal punishment (spanking) for children
• Children play outside occupy themselves
• No movie theatres special occasion religious
  movies at courthouse
• Nuclear family is the norm (not much divorce)

• Physical Description
• Tired old town
• Dirt roads (red slop in rainy weather)
• Grass in sidewalk, courthouse sags
• Hot
• People had gardens in yard

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Radley House

• Customs/values
• Misery
• Kept to themselves dont socialize, speak to
  neighbors
• Do not go to church (worship _at_ home)
• Took word of God as only law
• Mr. Radley doesnt work (bought cotton), goes to
  town 1130-1200
• Radleys keep doors and shutters closed
• other ways of making people into ghosts
• Mrs. R waters flowers in yard
• Mr. Nathan Radley (brother) takes Mr. Rs place
  when Mr. R dies

• Physical Description
• Low, once white (dirty, slate gray now, blends w/
  yard)
• Dirt yard, not kept neat, weeds grow
• Next to school house (kids would not eat pecans
  from their trees poison)
• Background Boo Cunninghams form gang (dance,
  gamble, go to town for movies, drink whiskey)
  steal a car, lock sheriff in outhouse, arrested,
  others sent to state industrial school Radley
  kept _at_ home 15 yrs.
• According to Miss Stephanie Boo stabbed father
  in leg w/scissors, tried to send to asylum
  Radley said no, Boo locked in courthouse
  basement, moved back home
• According to Calpurnia (Mr. Radley) meanest man
  God blew breath into