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About This Passage
This is one of Lee’s most quiet, painterly passages and contrasts with the noise of Jem and Dill’s schemes. It practices a compound sentence with parallel participial phrases (“watching... watching...”) and holds five vocabulary words: SUMMERTIME, TWILIGHTS, SILENTLY, MARTINS, ROOFTOPS.
In summertime, twilights are long and peaceful. Often as not, Miss Maudie and I would sit silently on her porch, watching the sky go from yellow to pink as the sun went down, watching flights of marti...
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Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 5 in five or six sentences. Include Scout’s new friendship with Miss Maudie, Miss Maudie’s gardening and cakes, the conversation about Arthur Radley, the plan with the fishing pole and the note, and Atticus’s lecture at the end.
Discussion Questions
- How does Miss Maudie Atkinson differ from the other Maycomb women Scout has mentioned so far — Miss Stephanie Crawford, Mrs. Dubose, Calpurnia? Use at least two specific details from this chapter to support your answer.
- Atticus ends the Boo Radley game not by forbidding it but by asking Jem a single question. What does this choice reveal about how Atticus tries to teach his children right from wrong?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
The season of summer considered as a time of year.
Item 2
The soft, fading light between sunset and darkness.
Item 3
Without making a sound; quietly.
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