1. TKAM chapter 5, 6, and 7
Quotes and notes

2. Chapter 5: miss maudie and the fishing pole note
Scout grows closer to Miss Maudie and becomes more distanced from Jem and Dill
Miss Maudie tells Scout about Mr. Radley’s religious fanaticism. She calls Mr. Radley “a foot-washing Baptist”
They interpret the Bible literally (59).
meaning that he “believe[s] anything that’s pleasure’s a sin” (59).
“There are just some kind of men who – who’re too busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one” (60).
Scout: “Atticus says God’s loving folks like you love yourself –” (60)

3. Atticus’s values
Scout: “ ‘Atticus don’t ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don’t do in the yard’” (61).
Miss Maudie: “”Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets” (61)
Values are the same
Doesn’t pretend to be something he’s not

4. Lessons taught by atticus
Letter to Boo Radley: asking him to come out and to tell Jem and Dill what he does in there. They get caught by Atticus and are told to “stop tormenting that man” (65).
Put themselves in his shoes: “What Mr. Radley did might seem peculiar to us, but it did not seem peculiar to him” (65).
respect
live and let live

5. Chapter 6: jem loses his pants and recovers them
Scout’s reply to Dill suggesting they go for a walk foreshadows that something will happen later: “He sounded fishy to me. Nobody in Maycomb just went for a walk” (68). Descriptive language and short choppy sentences are used to create suspense in this chapter as the children try to deliver a note to the Radley house: “With this thought in mind, I made perhaps one step per minute. I moved faster when I saw Jem far ahead…We came to the gate that divided the garden from the back yard. Jem touched it. The gate squeaked” (69)

6. Another example of onomatopoeia
“the step squeaked” (71).

7. Maintaining good relations
What does the following quote say about Jem’s relationship with his father: “ ‘Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. I wanta keep it that way’ ” (75).

8. Type of presentation: direct or indirect?
“Jem lay down, and for a while I heard his cot trembling” (76).
What does this sentence imply about Jem?

9. Chapter 7: soap figures; thank you; filling the knot hole
Jem: “ ‘ When I went back, they were folded across the fence… like they were expectin’ me…they’d been sewed up…like somebody was readin’ my mind…like somebody could tell what I was gonna do’ ” (78).
Jem tells Scout: “it was not until one reached the sixth grade that one learned anything of value” (79).
The objects that Jem and Scout found in the knot hole in the tree were meaningful to them, perhaps even more valuable and sentimental to Jem than to Scout:

10. Valuable gifts made jem and scout feel special
The objects that Jem and Scout found in the knot hole in the tree were meaningful to them, perhaps even more valuable and sentimental to Jem than to Scout:
“ ‘Atticus, if it’s all right with you, I’d rather have this [watch] instead. Maybe I can fix it’ ” (81).
Thank you letter:
“we appreciate everything which you have put into the tree for us” (82).

11. Giving and then taking away – it hurts
The knot-hole has been filled with cement
What is Mr. Radley’s motivation for filling the knot-hole?
Jem is sad and is crying again at the end of this chapter:
“When [Jem] went in the house I saw he had been crying” (84).