Homework: Parents/guardians, please assist your child with
today’s homework.
Option 3: Read the passage and answer questions that follow
using complete sentences.
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…
1.
How did men in the Finch family traditionally
make a living?
2.
How was the land self-sufficient?
3.
What disturbance is Scout referring to?
4.
What did the disturbance do?
5.
What was the tradition for men and how did
Atticus break it?
How do you think the Southerners feel about losing the civil
war?
Option 2: Read the passage and answer questions that follow
using complete sentences.
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…
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 1: Read
the passage and answer questions that follow using complete sentences.
It was
customary for the men in the family to remain on …Finch’s Landing, and make
their living from cotton.
1. What was customary for the men in the
family?
The …
Landing …produced everything …except ice, wheat flour, and articles of
clothing…
2. What did the landing produce?
…the
disturbance (problem) between the North and the South, …left his (Simon’s)
descendants stripped of everything but their land,
3. What did the disturbance do between
North and South do?
yet the
tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until … my father, Atticus
Finch, went to Montgomery to read law…
4. How did Atticus break the tradition
of living on the land?
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