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Selected for vocabulary density (multitudes, wriggling, misfortunes, victories), syntactic complexity (one long sentence built by stacking images of Scout watching from her treehouse), and thematic weight — Scout has wanted to belong at school her whole life, which makes her disappointment today matter.
I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Je...
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Narration Prompt
Tell someone what happened in this chapter in order. When you get to the most important part, slow down and tell it carefully — what happened, why it mattered, and what you think about it.
Discussion Questions
- Miss Caroline tells Scout she must not read with Atticus anymore because Atticus is teaching her wrong. Scout already knows how to read well. Was Miss Caroline being fair, or was she making a mistake? What in the story makes you think so?
- Walter Cunningham does not have any lunch money, and Miss Caroline tries to give him a quarter. Walter will not take it. Was Walter right to say no? What in the story makes you think so?
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