Homework: Parents/guardians please
assist your child with today’s homework.
Topic: Religion played an important part in the life of the characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird
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—“Arthur Radley just stays in the
house, that’s all,” said Miss Maudie. “Wouldn’t you stay in the house if you
didn’t want to come out?”
—“Yessum, but I’d wana come out.
Why doesn’t he?”
—Miss Maudie’s eyes narrowed. “You
know that story as well as I do.”
— “I never heard why, though.Nobody
ever told me why.”
—Miss Maudie settled her bridgework.
“You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist-”
—“That’s what you are, ain’t it?”
—“My shell’s not that hard, child.
I’m just a Baptist.”
—“Don’t you all believe in
foot-washing?”
—“We do. At home in the
bathtub…Foot-washers believe anything that’s pleasure is a sin. Did you know
some of ‘em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this
—place and told me me and my
flowers were going to hell?”
—“Your flowers, too?”
—“Yes ma’am. They’d burn right with
me. They thought I spent too much time in God’s outdoors and not enough time
inside the house reading the Bible.”
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—“Arthur Radley just stays in the house,
that’s all,” said Miss Maudie. “Wouldn’t you stay in the house if you didn’t
want to come out?”
—“Yessum, but I’d wana come out. Why doesn’t
he?”
—Miss Maudie’s eyes narrowed. “You know that
story as well as I do.”
— “I never heard why, though.Nobody ever told
me why.”
—Miss Maudie settled her bridgework.
“You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist-”
—“That’s what you are, ain’t it?”
—“…I’m just a Baptist.”
—“Don’t you all believe in foot-washing?”
—“We do. At home in the bathtub…Did you know
some of ‘em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this
—place and told me me and my flowers were
going to hell?”
—“Your flowers, too?”
—“Yes ma’am. They’d burn right with me. They
thought I spent too much time in God’s outdoors and not enough time inside the
house reading the Bible.”
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—“Arthur Radley just stays in the house,
that’s all,” said Miss Maudie. “Wouldn’t you stay in the house if you didn’t
want to come out?”
—“Yessum, but I’d wana come out. Why doesn’t
he?”
—…“You know that story as well as I do.”
— “I never heard why, though. Nobody ever told
me why.”
—…“You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing
Baptist-”
…
—“Don’t you all believe in foot-washing?”
—“We do. At home in the bathtub…some of ‘em
came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this place and told me and my
flowers were going to hell?”
Option
1: How do you think Ms. Maudie feels about some Baptists and about Boo?
Write
a short paragraph and provide evidence to support your argument.
Option
2: Write a paragraph in which you discuss what was the importance of religion
in the 1930’s Alabama?
Option
3:
1.
Who is Ms. Maudie talking about?
2. What
does Ms. Maudie call the Baptists?
3.What
did she say a Baptist do to her?
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