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About This Passage
This sentence captures the hushed walk that leads the children into their worst decision of the chapter. It practices parallel participial phrases (“listening to... listening to...”) and holds five vocabulary words: STROLLED, SIDEWALK, SWINGS, CREAKING, MURMURS.
We strolled silently down the sidewalk, listening to porch swings creaking with the weight of the neighborhood, listening to the soft night-murmurs of the grown people on our street.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 6 in five or six sentences. Be sure to include Dill’s last night in Maycomb, the plan to peep in the Radley window, the shadow on the porch, Mr. Nathan’s shotgun, Jem’s pants caught in the fence, Dill’s strip-poker cover story, and Jem’s midnight return.
Discussion Questions
- Scout says, “It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company.” What does Scout mean by this, and what specific moment in this chapter shows that Jem is beginning to think about right and wrong differently than Scout does?
- Jem decides to go back alone to the Radley yard for his pants even though Mr. Nathan has a loaded shotgun waiting. Why would Jem rather face being shot than have Atticus learn what he did? What does that choice tell you about what matters to Jem?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Walked in a slow, relaxed way; walked without hurry.
Item 2
A paved path at the side of a road where people walk.
Item 3
Seats hung from ropes or chains that move back and forth when someone sits on them.
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