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Forming EBC: To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee MATERIALS: To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee Notebook

Independent Reading By yourself, read chapter one and two of To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. As you read, concentrate on the characters of Maycomb County, Georgia. In small groups you will be assigned a character on whom you will record and present in-depth information. Independent or shared reading. Complete reading chapter two before recording details about any of the characters. At this point, students are collecting and recording data. They are not yet forming or supporting claims. (EBC will begin in activity 3). The teacher offers an example or two evidence (textually) based evidence.

EBC: To Kill A Mockingbird With your small group, record observations about your assigned character. Use textual evidence to support your claims about the character. Record the page number of your textual evidence. Be prepared to share your information with the class. The teacher assigns the small groups one of the characters of the chapter. The students review the chapter and record information on their assigned character. For the first three chapters the EBC is not used. The students are to keep notes that later will be incorporated into the EBC forms. Characters: 1. Atticus Finch 2. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch 3. Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch 4. Arthur “Boo” Radley 5. Charles “Dill” Harris 6. Calpurnia Insert: Jonas Brothers

Jean Louise “Scout” Finch Three Things We Find Interesting "Scout yonder's been readin' ever since she was born, and she ain't even started to school yet” (7). Students add textual evidence to describe the character. Forming and developing evidence-based claims occurs in subsequent lessons.

Atticus Finch Three Things We Find Interesting During his first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother's education (5).

Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch Three Things We Find Interesting When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury (3).

Arthur “Boo” Radley Three Things We Find Interesting Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows. When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them (9). Do Not Show Photo until he is revealed in the book/film

Charles Baker “Dill” Harris Three Things We Find Interesting He played the character parts formerly thrust upon me- the ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys, Mr. Damon in Tom Swift. Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies (6).

Calpurnia Three Things We Find Interesting Our battles were epic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side (5).

Independent Reading By yourself, read chapter three of To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. Assign in class or as homework