Scouting Your Thoughts

Please respond to ONE of the following questions. Use your book to provide specific evidence to support your claims. Responses should be approximately two complete paragraphs (at minimum) in length. Be sure to cite specific evidence. 1.      Choose one of the following themes and describe the role it plays in the novel: Growing up/loss of innocence, Racism, The Importance/role of Social class, Gender Roles, Empathy (seeing things from another person’s point of view). Use evidence from the text to support your points. 2.      What is THE major life lesson Atticus teaches his children in the novel? Explain the lesson and how the children come to learn it or experience it. Use evidence from the text to support your points.

If you could live a day in the shoes of any of the characters so far, who would it be and why? Be specific.

If you could assign one song to be the "theme song" of   To Kill a Mockingbird   at this point in the novel, what would that song be, and why would you select it? Explain how the mood and/or lyrics of the song would appropriately capture the theme, mood, or main ideas of the story.

Choose ONE of the following prompts to respond to. Please respond honestly and thoughtfully. 1. Scout and Jem visit Calpurnia’s church. How would you feel if you were in their shoes? Describe, in detail, a time when you were an obvious outsider somewhere. How did you feel? 2. Atticus tells Scout that Mr. Cunningham is a good man – “he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us.” What does Atticus mean by this? Explain what are your "blind spots" are as a person.