HW Mr. Padilla 12.12.16

Homework: Parents/guardians please assist your child with today’s homework. Choose a modified reading below and a task to complete.

Option 3:  Base response on the reading.

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.

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 sentences below.

Maycomb was comfortable because:

Maycomb was not comfortable because:

3.  Why were people in Maycomb take their time about everything?

Option 2: Base response on the reading.

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.

1.       How does Scout describe Maycomb?

2.       How was the summer for dogs and what did mules do?

3.       What did men and women do?

4.       How did Scout describe people and days then?

5.       Why were people not in a hurry?

Option 1: Base response on the reading.

 Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

1.     What kind of town was Maycomb?

In rainy weather the … grass grew on the sidewalks… Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day…

2.     What happened on rainy days?

People moved slowly then. They… took their time about everything.

3.     How did people move then?

A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer.

4.     How did the day seem?

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.

5.     Why were people not in a hurry?

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