08/15 Homework

8th Literature:

Bellwork:

Do you think the Radley game is innocent fun, or are they being mean?

Vocabulary:

1. Benign
   1. (adj) gentle and non-threatening
2. Tacit
   1. (adj) understood without being said
3. Placid
   1. (adj) quiet in a friendly way
4. Peculiar
   1. (adj) strange, odd

Reading Questions:

1. Discuss Miss Maudie Atkinson.
2. What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about Boo?
3. Discuss Scout’s line: “Dill could tell the biggest ones [lies] she ever heard”.
4. What do you think of Dill and Jem trying to get Boo to come out?
5. What reasons does Atticus give for the children not to play the Boo Radley game?

Homework:

Read chapter 6