Week of: Monday November 3rd "To Kill A Mockingbird"

Book: To Kill A Mockingbird 

Prompt: • Draw 4 objects that represent your reading. Write a sentence for each, telling

what each item says about what you’ve been reading.

Pages Read: 0- 47

     4 objects that represent To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book, a creepy old house for the Radley house, two large living oak trees, and chewing gum (Wrigley's Mint Chewing Gum.) I choose the book because Scout loves to read with her father Atticus Finch, but on the first day of school she was scolded by her teacher to tell her father to stop teaching her because he was teaching her wrong. She told her father this when he wanted to read with her, in reply he said "If you'll concede the necessity of going to school, we'll go on reading every night just as we always have." Atticus is afraid however if Scout tells her teacher this he will be a target of her. 

     

      Another object that I chose was an old house for the Radley house. The Radley house is a big part of the story because I think it kind of like has to do with the history of their county, Maycomb County. The story is that "The shutters and doors of the Radley house were closed on Sundays, another thing alien to Maycomb's ways: closed doors meant illness and cold weather only. Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes. But to climb the Radley front steps and call, "He-y," of a Sunday afternoon was something their neighbors never did. The Radley house had no screen doors. I once asked Atticus if it ever had any; Atticus said yes, but before I was born. " 

     I chose two large oak trees to represent To Kill A Mockingbird because in chapter four that's where Scout finds the chewing gum and where Jem finds the two 1900 pennies. In the book Scout see's something glistening in the tree so she goes up to the oak tree and takes the tin foil out, she was going to put it in her mouth but she decided to do it at her house after she remembered she was in front of the Radley house. When Jem got home from school she told him of the gum and she was forced to spit it out and wash her mouth. Later on Jem and Scout find two Indian head pennies and they decide to keep the pennies that were found in the oak tree. 

     

     The last object I picked was Wrigley's Double Mint Chewing Gum, I picked this object because that was the first thing Scout found in the oak tree by the Radley house and if she hadn't saw the gum then she wouldn't had seen the two pennies. In the book "two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley lot; their roots reached out into the side-road and made it bumpy... Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun. I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers."