Homework:
Parents/guardians, please assist your child with today’s
homework. Students should read
choose one reading and one task to complete.
* Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some
members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors…
It was customary for the men in the family to remain
on …Finch’s Landing, and make their living from cotton. The place was
self-sufficient: …the Landing …produced everything …except ice, wheat flour,
and articles of clothing, supplied by river- boats from Mobile.
…the disturbance between the North and the South, …left his
(Simon’s) descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition
of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century,
when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law…
** Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some
members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors…
It was customary for the men in the family to remain
on …Finch’s Landing, and make their living from cotton. The … Landing …produced
everything …except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by
river- boats from Mobile.
…the disturbance between the North and the South,
…left his (Simon’s) descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the
tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth
century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law…
*** It was customary for the men in the family to
remain on …Finch’s Landing, and make their living from cotton. The … Landing
…produced everything …except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing…
…the disturbance between the North and the South,
…left his (Simon’s) descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the
tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until … my father, Atticus
Finch, went to Montgomery to read law…
Option 1: Base responses on the reading passage.
1.
What was the custom for the men in Scout’s
family?
2.
Why do you think that Finch’s Landing is
important?
3.
What happened to Finch’s Landing during the war
between the North and South?
4.
What did Atticus do that broke the tradition of
living on the land?
Option 2: Write a paragraph in which you explain why knowing
about the civil war is important to understand To Kill a Mocking bird.
Option 3: Base your response on what we discussed in class
today and your reading. Instructions:
How do you think the Southerners feel about losing the civil war? Base your
answer on today’s reading and lesson. Use evidence from the reading in your response.
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