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Summer Assignment 2017Insight Log Assignment

Your Task: As you re-read To Kill a Mockingbird, keep a log of your new understandings, observations, and insights using a log like the one below. You can either type into this Google Doc, or you can hand-write your log in a Composition Notebook. Use the insights you log on this chart to help you answer the questions for the Socratic Seminar discussion. A printed copy of this log is due on the first day of school. An example has been filled in for you.

Guidelines:

  • Pay close attention to the characters and events that are left out of the movie.
  • Pay attention to the language and look for imagery, figurativelanguage, and dialect.
  • Look for symbolism (i.e. mockingbird, colors, flowers, details about characters’ appearances, etc.)
  • Look for new details about the maincharacters: Atticus, Scout, Jem, Tom Robinson, Boo Radley.
  • Look for new details about minorcharacters, especially Miss Maudie, Mrs. DuBose, Aunt Alexandra, MayellaEwell, Bob Ewell, Helen Robinson, Dill, and the Radleys.

Requirements:

  • For each log entry, you must include a quote from the text and an explanation of the new insight you gained from the excerpt.
  • Quotes from the text must be placed in quotation marks and be properly cited (author’s last name and page number. (Lee 24)
  • Write in complete sentences.
  • Complete at least one new insight per chapter.One column on the chart = one new insight!
  • Try to have a variety – i.e. not all character insights.

Chapter &
Things you would like to ask about. / NEW understandings, observations, and insights.
*Complete one column per chapter! / Characters / Language
(figurative language, imagery, diction, etc.) / Symbols / Events I missed the first time!
Chapter 1 / Quote: “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then… Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum” (Lee 5).
Explanation: In this passage, the author uses imagery and figurative language to set the mood for the story. By personifying the town as “tired,” a slow, weary mood is set, and the reader knows that the people in the town have endured a lot and are “tired” by their trials and tribulations. Through the use of simile comparing the ladies to “soft tea cakes,” the author creates a visual image of the ladies wilting in the heat of the South. This image also contributes to the slow, weary mood.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31