Characters
Who is the main character?
Scout
Describe Boo Radley
Yellow teeth
Eats live animals
Classism: define it
“Prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class.”
What does Walter Cunningham refuse to take from Miss Caroline?
A quarter
Scout said, " He ain't company, Cal, he's just a Cunningham." What did she mean by that and what was Cal's answer?
Scout meant that Finches were better than Cunninghams, and for that reason she didn't have to treat Walter as company. Calpurnia told Scout that she should treat anyone who came to visit her home as "company" and show him every courtesy.
What is the son's name?
Jem
Scout and Jem's friend
Miss Rachel's nephew
Maycomb, Alabama
What was Calpurnia's fault? *DD
Scout said it was Calpurnia's fault that she could write. This also caused trouble for her at school. Miss Caroline asked Scout to tell her father to stop teaching her.
What two mistakes did Miss Caroline make on the first day of school?
Miss Caroline's first mistake was to offer Walter Cunningham money; the Cunninghams don't take anything they can't pay back. Her second mistake was trying to tell Burris Ewell to go home and wash out his "cooties."
What is the neighbor boy's name?
Dill
What was Scout's first "crime" at school?
Scout's first crime was that she could already read.
What term means - Treating a person or group as if they are insignificant *DD
Marginalization
Who are the Cunninghams?
Poor farmers
Why didn't the Ewells have to go to school?
If the truant officer enforced the laws for the Ewells, Mr. Ewell would probably be jailed. Without their father, wretched as he was, the children would be worse off than if they simply did not go to school. Because the Ewell children's home life was so unusual, the authorities bent the rules for them.
What is the town shut-in's name?
Arthur or Boo Radley
Scout's teacher's name
Miss Caroline
What term means Cruel or unjust treatment or control that lasts for a long time?
Oppression
Why did Scout rub Walter Cunningham's nose in the dirt?
Scout stood up for Walter in class and tried to explain the Cunningham ways to Miss Caroline. For her explanations, Scout got in more trouble with Miss Caroline, so she took out her revenge on Walter.
President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed what restrictive Codes to control the labor and behavior of former enslaved people and other Africans.
The Black Codes
What is the cook's name?
Calpurnia
What did Scout's teacher want her to do?
Stop learning
The main social classes
Upper, middle, working, peasants, underclass
The reason why Walter is an example of classism
He and his family are labeled as poor. Their name says it all.
What is Agent Orange?
a toxic and deadly herbicide used during the Vietnam War as a weapon against the Vietnamese people and their soil.