tkam 9-10

Hey Kittens,
You did great on Monday, 4/6 and I hope to see you on Wednesday, 4/8.  I really like analyzing the book with you....you bring up some very interesting points!


So as promised, here are my notes from chapters 9 and 10

Chapter 9
-Cecil let's the racial slurs fly, and it makes Scout boil!  What are her reactions?  Is she growing up?

-Later, she asks Atticus what the phrase means, and he explains that he has decided to defend a black man named Tom Robinson who lives in a settlement behind the town dump. Atticus says many of the town people think he ought not defend Tom because he is black. Scout asks why he's still doing it if people don't want him to, and Atticus responds that if he didn't take the case, he wouldn't be able to "hold up my head in town."

Think about this quote, and we will discuss it on Wednesday

-He tells Scout to keep her cool no matter what anyone says, and fight with her head, not her hands. Scout asks if he's going to win the case and Atticus says no, but "simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." He tells her that no matter what happens, the people of Maycomb are still their friends, and this is still their town. (We will talk about this too)

-Let's go to Finch's Landing and meet Uncle jack, Aunt Alexandra, her husband, and Fancis (ewww, Francis, that's all I have to say!  He's HORRIBLE!).

-Scout calls him "the most boring child I ever met." Talking to Francis gives Scout the feeling of, "settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean." The only good thing about being at the Landing is Aunt Alexandra's excellent cooking.

-How about Uncle Jack's reaction?

-Atticus just hopes that he can get his children through the ordeal without having them catch "Maycomb's usual disease," when "people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up." 
-Atticus hopes that Jem and Scout will look to him for their answers rather than to the townspeople. 
-Then he calls out Scout's name and tells her to go to bed. She runs back to her room.-Years later, the narrator, an aged Scout, explains she eventually came to understand that Atticus wanted her to hear

Chapter 10
-Is Scout ashamed of Atticus at this age?
-Scout doesn't think her father can "do" anything besides be a lawyer - he doesn't do hands-on physical work and he doesn't play football. He's much older than the parents of her peers, which makes it difficult for him to take part in such activities.

Central Quote/ Theme of the Novel:
-Atticus tells Scout and Jem they can shoot their air guns at tins cans and bluebirds, but that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. 

-Miss Maudie affirms this, saying to Scout, "Your father's right. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

-Meet Tim Johnson, btw...the current seniors were totally fascinated by Tim!

-"One Shot Finch"

-Scout wants to tell everyone in school about the incident, but Jem tells her not to. Jem explains that he wouldn't care if Atticus "couldn't do a blessed thing," because Atticus is a gentleman.
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HOMEWORK:

-Please turn in your journals for 4-6 by 4/9
-Please turn in your journals for 7-9 by 4/13
-Read 11-13 for next meeting.
We will meet after the holiday.