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Read the following except from “To
Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
Level 1: The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the
courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.
The jury sat to the left, under long windows. One or two of
the jury looked vaguely like dressed-up Cunninghams.
Atticus and Tom Robinson sat at tables with their backs to
us. The witnesses sat on cowhide-bottomed chairs. Their backs were to us.
Judge Taylor was on the bench, looking like a sleepy old
shark, his pilot fish writing rapidly below in front of him.
.
1. Finish the sentence: “The
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ balcony ran _ _ _ _ _ three walls of the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.”
2. How does Judge Taylor
look to Scout?
a). No one
b). Jem
c). Like a sleepy old
shark.
a)
The jury sat to right, under short
windows. True or False
Level 2: The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the
courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.
The jury sat to the left, under long windows. One or two of
the jury looked vaguely like dressed-up Cunninghams. At this stage they sat
straight and alert.
The circuit solicitor and another man, Atticus and Tom
Robinson sat at tables with their backs to us. The witnesses sat on
cowhide-bottomed chairs. Their backs were to us.
Judge Taylor was on the bench, looking like a sleepy old
shark, his pilot fish writing rapidly below in front of him. Judge Taylor
looked like most judges I had ever seen: amiable, white-haired, slightly
ruddy-faced, he was a man who ran his court with an alarming informality—he
sometimes propped his feet up, he often cleaned his fingernails with his pocket
knife.
1. Where did the Colored
Balcony run?
The Colored Balcony
ran along _______________________________________________________________.
2. What did one or more
of the jury men look like?
The jurymen looked like ______________________________________________________________________.
3. How did Judge Taylor
run his court?
Judge Taylor ran his
court ___________________________________________________________________.
Level 3: The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the
courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.
The jury sat to the left, under long windows. Sunburned,
lanky, they seemed to be all farmers, but this was natural: townfolk rarely sat
on juries, they were either struck or excused. One or two of the jury looked
vaguely like dressed-up Cunninghams. At this stage they sat straight and alert.
The circuit solicitor and another man, Atticus and Tom
Robinson sat at tables with their backs to us. There was a brown book and some
yellow tablets on the solicitor’s table; Atticus’s was bare. Just inside the
railing that divided the spectators from the court, the witnesses sat on
cowhide-bottomed chairs. Their backs were to us.
Judge Taylor was on the bench, looking like a sleepy old
shark, his pilot fish writing rapidly below in front of him. Judge Taylor
looked like most judges I had ever seen: amiable, white-haired, slightly
ruddy-faced, he was a man who ran his court with an alarming informality—he
sometimes propped his feet up, he often cleaned his fingernails with his pocket
knife. In long equity hearings, especially after dinner, he gave the impression
of dozing, an impression dispelled forever when a lawyer once deliberately
pushed a pile of books to the floor in a desperate effort to wake him up.
Without opening his eyes, Judge Taylor murmured, “Mr. Whitley, do that again
and it’ll cost you one hundred dollars.”
Use complete sentences
1.
Where did the witnesses sit in the courtroom?
2. What is the name of
the judge?
3. Why is there a
separate “Colored” bench in court? Use your prior knowledge of segregation.
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