Get out one piece of paper and one pen/pencil and get ready for a READING QUIZ!!!

Dill dared Jem to do what and what was the result? (Give as much detail in you can in 3 sentences or less so I know you read).

 Valentine’s Dance!  For those of you who haven’t turned in your poetry packets, your grade is being adversely affected…   Homework: Read until the end of Chapter 2 in To Kill a Mockingbird.  Take notes on the following slides… (and always bring your To Kill a Mockingbird Discussion Notes.

Listening and Speaking 1.1: Formulate judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments with convincing evidence.

We all know the story of The Three Little Pigs: The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do. The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house. The third little pig built his house out of bricks. One night the big bad wolf, who dearly loved to eat fat little piggies, came along and saw the first little pig in his house of straw. He said "Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!“ "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig. But of course the wolf did blow the house in and ate the first little pig…

 However, when told from first person point of view, the same story might be dramatically different.  Let’s read the story from the wolf’s perspective…

 Fill in your To Kill a Mockingbird notes with the information on the following slides…

 First person point of view= the narrator is a character in the story who is telling us his/her version of the story, based on how he/she saw it.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD  The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is a six-year old girl named Scout Finch who tells the story of her childhood in 1936 in Montgomery Alabama.  Scout witnesses her father, a lawyer, standing up to represent a man whom he feels is innocent and is being falsely accused because of superficial pretenses (external appearance).  Scout’s father is standing up against the society’s status quo but is made into a hero (in his daughter’s eyes) for doing so.  How would the story be different if told from a townsperson’s perspective?

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD  While not to suggest that one point of view is correct, most of us today identify with Scout’s perspective of the story.  However, as we read, keep in mind that there is another perspective and another sense of ethics that is present in the story, but not discussed as openly due to point of view.

 Get out To Kill a Mockingbird and we will continue reading Chapter 2.