HW Mr. Padilla 12.16.16

Homework: Parents/guardians please assist your child with today’s homework.

Option 3:  “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.”

Q: 1. How do you think Ms. Maudie feels about some Baptists and about Boo?

2. How do you know this?

3. Give a quote from the text.

4. Explain the meaning of the quote to support your point.

Option 2:

“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.”

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?

Option1: Read the conversation between Miss Maudie and Scout.

—“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?”

1.      Where does Arthur Radley stay?

—“Yessum, but I’d wana come out. Why doesn’t he?”

—…“You know that story as well as I do.”

2.      What does Scout want to know?

— “I never heard why, though. Nobody ever told me why.”—…“You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist-”

3.      What does Maudie call Mr. Radley?

—“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 told me and my flowers were going to hell?”

4.      Where does Maudie say people should wash their feet?

5.      What did someone say to her once?

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