Homework: Parents/guardians
please assist your child with today’s homework. Choose a modified reading below
and a task to complete.
* Maycomb was an old
town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the
streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged
in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s
day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the… shade of the live
oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies
bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps…
People moved slowly then. They… took their time about
everything. A day was twenty-fourhours long but seemed longer. There was no
hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with,
nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.
** Maycomb was an old
town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the …
grass grew on the sidewalks… Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered
on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to … the… shade of the live oaks on the
square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before
noon, after their three-o’clock naps…
People moved slowly then. They… took their time about
everything. A day was twenty-fourhours long but seemed longer. There was no
hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with,
nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.
*** Maycomb was an
old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather
the … grass grew on the sidewalks… Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog
suffered on a summer’s day;…Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock
naps…
People moved slowly then. They… took their time about
everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no
hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with,
nothing to see outside … of Maycomb County.
Option 1: Pretend you are drawing the cover for the novel To
Kill a Mocking Bird. Your task is
to base your drawing on the paragraph you just read. Underline all the words that describe the town, like old, tired
and hot. You can also draw details like a black dog suffering, etc.
Option 2: Based on what you read, how would you compare this
town to where you live? Compare and contrast the town of Maycomb with your neighborhood
or NYC. How are they similar and different?
Option 3: Base
response on the reading.
1.
How was Maycomb town when Scout first knew it?
2.
Do you think that summers were comfortable in Maycomb?
Why or why not? Give an example from the reading. Complete One of the senteces below.
Maycomb was comfortable because ____________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
Maycomb was not comfortable because________________________________________
3.
Why were people in Maycomb take their time about
everthing?
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