Setting
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in this country.
What is the United States?
This main character is also the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird. She has a quick temper and is immature.
Who is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch?
This is why Scout gets into trouble with Ms. Caroline on her first day of school.
What is knowing how to read?
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What is saying "he's a Cunningham?"
The children believe Boo Radley is dangerous, at first. They eventually come to believe he is this, instead.
What is lonely?
OR
What is kind?
People, places, and things are examples of this part of speech.
What is noun?
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in this town.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
This character is the main character's older brother in To Kill a Mockingbird. He is even-tempered and loves football.
Who is Jem Finch?
This tragic event affects the Finch's neighbor, Miss Maudie and gives Boo Radley an opportunity to put a blanket around Scout's shoulders during a snowy night.
What is Miss Maudie's house burns down?
Calpurnia scolds Scout for poor manners when she does this at the dinner table.
What is embarrasses Walter Cunningham for using too much syrup?
Part of speech that includes action words and states of being.
What is a verb?
Part one of To Kill a Mockingbird takes place across these years.
What is 1933-1935?
This character is the main character's father in To Kill a Mockingbird. He is a lawyer and a gentlemen.
Who is Atticus Finch?
For this reason, Scout Finch gets into many fights throughout part one of To Kill a Mockingbird.
What are negative comments about her father's defense of Tom Robinson?
What is her head?
Comparing two unlike things using like, than, or as, to make a point. Example: She is as fast as a cheetah!
What is a simile?
The economic hardship that impacted the global economy during To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is The Great Depression?
This character is "the bravest woman" Atticus Finch ever knew. She teaches the kids a valuable lesson about bravery, despite being very grumpy!
Who is Mrs. Dubose?
The Finch children and their friend get into trouble when they sneak onto the Radley porch. They claim to be playing this immoral game to explain Jem's lack of pants.
What is playing strip poker with matches?
Part one of To Kill a Mockingbird teaches readers this about bravery.
What is bravery is doing what's right even when you might fail?
Vocabulary term for being paid, or receiving money to make up for damages.
What is compensation?
The racist laws that enforced segregation during To Kill a Mockingbird.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This character visits the Finch children each summer and tells tall tales. We suspect he has a very difficult home life.
Who is Charles Baker "Dill" Harris?
This choice leads Jem Finch to have to read to an elderly, cranky woman for one month as a punishment.
What is destroying a flower garden with a baton?
The definition of theme.
What is the message or lesson of a story?
A story that is made up, but based on true events or real history.
What is historical fiction?