12.19.2017

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Read the following except from “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

Level 1: When Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days. Miss Caroline printed her name on the blackboard and said, “This says I am Miss Caroline Fisher. I am from North Alabama, from Winston County.” (Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama.)

Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats.. Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade were immune to imaginative literature.

1.    Finish the sentence: “Alabama _ _ _ _ _ _ _ from the _ _ _ _ _ on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11^th, 1861.”

2.    Who did Miss Maudie introduce to Jem and Scouts class?

a). No one

b). Jem

c). Miss Caroline

3.    When did Alabama secede from the Union?

a)   1992

b)  1861

c)   1028

Level 2: Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. When Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days. Miss Caroline printed her name on the blackboard and said, “This says I am Miss Caroline Fisher. I am from North Alabama, from Winston County.” (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.)

Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats. By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms. Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade were immune to imaginative literature.

1.    What is the name of the new teacher at Jem and Scouts school?

The new teachers name ______________________________________________________________________.

2.    Who introduced Miss Caroline?

      The name of the person ______________________________________________________________________.

3.    Where is Miss Caroline from?

Miss Caroline is from ________________________________________________________________________.

Level 3: Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson’s upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days. Miss Caroline printed her name on the blackboard and said, “This says I am Miss Caroline Fisher. I am from North Alabama, from Winston County.” The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region. (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats. The cats had long conversations with one another, they wore cunning little clothes and lived in a warm house beneath a kitchen stove. By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms. Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature. Miss Caroline came to the end of the story and said, “Oh, my, wasn’t that nice?”

1.    Who did Miss Maudie Atkinsons introduce to the class?

2.    When did Alabama secede from the union?

3.    Why do you think Scout says “were immune to imaginative literature”?