📚 Part 1: Maycomb and Its Context

Success criteria: I can describe Maycomb’s setting, identify relevant historical details and explain how context may shape characters’ lives.

Use your class text, audio version or discussion. You may write, type or record an oral response.

1. Record three details about Maycomb’s fictional setting in the opening chapters.

2. Complete the context connections. Explain how each detail may influence people’s experiences or choices.

Historical context: the 1930s, the Great Depression and segregation.

Sentence starter: Maycomb is represented as __________. This may influence characters because __________.

👥 Part 2: Characters and Perspective

Success criteria: I can identify Scout as the narrator and distinguish what Scout notices from what a reader may infer.

Perspective means the way a character sees, understands and explains events. For each character, record one clue from the opening chapters and one possible inference.

3. Scout Finch: What does Scout notice, understand or misunderstand?

4. Jem Finch: What does Scout’s account suggest about Jem?

5. Atticus Finch: What does Scout show us about Atticus?

6. Calpurnia: What can the reader infer about Calpurnia’s role or perspective?

7. Dill Harris: What does Scout’s perspective reveal about Dill?

8. Boo Radley: What is known, and what remains mysterious?

🧭 Part 3: Ordinary World, Evidence and Exit Reflection

Success criteria: I can sequence the ordinary world and call to adventure, support ideas with textual evidence and explain how Scout’s perspective shapes meaning.

9. Sequence the four events from the opening chapters. Number them 1–4 and label each event ordinary world or call to adventure.

_____ Scout describes everyday life in Maycomb.

_____ Jem and Scout hear stories about Boo Radley.

_____ Dill arrives and joins the children’s games.

_____ The children become increasingly curious about the Radley house.

For at least two choices, add a quotation or precise chapter reference.

10. Evidence table: record a quotation or chapter reference and explain what it shows about setting, character or perspective.

Quotation or chapter reference

What it shows

________________________________

11. Exit prompt: Scout’s child perspective shapes the reader’s understanding of Maycomb because … Include one quotation or precise chapter reference.

Support options: Use the sentence starters, discuss your response with a partner, use audio or text-to-speech, or give a typed or oral response.