II. Answer each question in 5-7 complete sentences Include a quote from the text that supports your response.

1. Suppose you were a guest at the pageant. Describe the party and Scout's failure.

2. Lee fills the night of the pageant with the elements of foreshadowing. What are they?

3. What does the pageant mean for the population of Maycomb?

4. What happened to the children on their way home? Speak on the accident under the big oak.

5. How does Ewell’s attack on the children characterize him?

6. What injuries did the children get?

7. Why didn’t Scout realize at first that it was Arthur Radley who saved their lives?

8. In what way did Scout get acquainted with Arthur Radley ?

9. What did Arthur Radley look like?

III. Translate the paragraph: “He was still leaning against the wall……"Hey, Boo," I said” (Chapter 29).

IV. Give a gist of the chapters.

Unit 15. Chapters 30-31

Give the Russian equivalents for the following words.

blandly (adv.): smoothly; without excitement

connived (vb.): secretly cooperated or agreed to

wisteria (n.): twinning woody vines with large clusters of flowers.

railing (adj.): painful

Words and word combinations for intensive study.

stab (v.) connive (v.)

strain (n.), to be under a strain

to bide one’s time tackle (v.)

tug (v.) hover (v.)

woe (n.)

Assignments

I. Translate the sentences in which the words and word combinations for intensive study are used. Reproduce them in the situations from the book.

II. Answer each question in 5-7 complete sentences. Include a quote from the text that supports your response.

1. What was Huck Tate's version of Bob Ewell's death? Why did he insist on it?

2. How did Scout convince her father that she understood and appreciated Mr. Tate's version?

3. Give your version of Bob Ewell's death.

4. Why do you think the novel closes with Scout’s falling asleep as Atticus reads to her?

5. Can you feel optimistic at the end of the book?

III. Translate the paragraph: “Daylight... in my mind, the night faded… Just standing on the Radley porch was enough”. (Chapter 30).

IV. Give a gist of the chapters.

V. Study Questions

1. Discuss Atticus’s parenting style. What is his relationship to his children like? How does he seek to instill conscience in them?

2. Analyze the trial scene and its relationship to the rest of the novel.

3. Discuss the author’s portrayal of the black community and the characters of Calpurnia and Tom Robinson. Are they realistic or idealized?

4. The story is set in a small town in Alabama in the 1930s. What aspects of the story seem to be particular to that time and place? What aspects are universal, cutting across time and place?

5. Many of the characters hold stereotypes about how individuals will behave as a result of age, gender, race, etc. Which characters are the victims of stereotyping? Do any of them break through the behavior expected of them, showing individuality and exposing the falseness of labeling people?

VI. Choose a topic and write an assay.

1. The childhood world of Jem, Scout, and Dill and their relationship with Boo Radley in Part One.

2. How do Jem and Scout change in the course of the novel? How do they remain the same?

3. What is Atticus’s relationship to the rest of Maycomb? What is his role in the community?

4. The role of family in To Kill a Mockingbird.

5. Miss Maudie’s relationship to the Finches and to the rest of Maycomb.

6. The author’s descriptions of Maycomb. What is the town’s role in the novel?

7. The author’s treatment of Boo Radley. What is his role in the novel?