To Kill a Mocking Bird Timeline

Chapter 1-introduces characters
Jem-brother
Scout-narrator, Jem’s sister, main character
Dill-summer neighbor
Boo Radley-mysterious neighbor
Chapter 2-Scout starts first grade with Ms. Caroline Fisher who is not happy that Scout can read
Chapter 3-Discuss social class
Ms. Fisher offers Walter Cunningham a quarter for lunch but he doesn’t take it because he can’t pay it back. Scout had to tell Ms. Caroline Fisher that Walter couldn’t pay it back causing her to get lashes.
The Cunningham’s pay back dept in good such as wood
Chapter 4-Second summer begins
Dill is back
Jem write script about Boo’s life that Dill, Scout, and Jem will act out
Chapter 5
Try to deliver Boo Radley a letter with a fishing pole
Chapter 6-End of second summer
One more attempt to get Boo Radley to come out by sneaking in his back yard
Jem leaves his pants on the fence
Jem’s excuse for no pants was that Jem, Scout, Dill tell the crowd gathered on the street that they were playing poker
Chapter 7-Jem and Scout received string, gum, watch and soap dolls in the knot of the tree
They found hole cemented
Nathan Radley did it
Chapter 8- It snows in Alabama
Jem and Scout make a snowman, first using mud
Ms. Maudie’s house catchers fire
“Somebody” puts a blanket around Scout while they watch the men rescue furniture from the fire
Chapter 9-Atticus took a case defending a black man
Scout sticks up for Atticus kids at school call him a n-lover
Chapter 10-Jem is complaining that Atticus is too old and not good at anything besides being a lawyer
Atticus shoots Tim Johnson and Jem finds out Atticus is Mr. One Shot, Maycomb’s best shot!
Chapter 11-Mrs. Dubose says nasty things about Atticus
Jem breaks Scout’s baton in half while destroying Mrs. Dubose’s garden
Jem’s punishment is to read to Mrs. Dubose for a month
Chapter 12
Jem and Scour go to Calpurnia’s church
The church is raising money for Tom Robinson
Chapter 13
Aunt Alexandra came and Dill ran away
Aunt Alexandra talked about the importance of the family line.
Chapter 14
Dill ran away
He is hiding under Scout’s bed
Explains about his family
Chapter 15
Atticus is protecting Tom Robinson from the lynch mob
Scout saves Atticus and Tom Robinson by directly speaking to Mr. Cunningham about his son Walter.
Chapter 16
Discuss social groups
Discuss Mr. Dolphus Raymond, the town drunk, because he lives in the black community and has biracial kids
Big outing in Maycomb-everyone goes to court
Chapter 17
Court case begins
Heck Tate begins his testimony
Bob Ewell has his testimony
Atticus proves Bob Ewell is left handed by having him write his name
Chapter 18
Mayella’s testimony begins
Mayella says Tom Robinson attacked her hitting her in her face
Atticus had Tom Robinson stand up to display his crippled left arm
Chapter 19
Tom Robinson gives his side of the story
Chapter 20
Jem, Scout, and Dell talk to Mr. Dolphus Raymond
They find out he drinks coke instead of alcohol
Closing arguments
Chapter 21
Calpurnia comes to court looking for Jem and Scout
That is when people realize the children have been watching the case from the “colored” balcony
Verdict comes back after two hours and say that Tom Robinson is guilty
Chapter 22
Jem is upset by the verdict
Miss. Maudie tried to explain to Jem that some people were on Tom’s side.
For example, Judge Taylor appointed Atticus instead of the beginner lawyer
Chapter 23
Jem is talking the case over with Atticus
Atticus is trying to say there was a small victory because one of the jurors was a Cunningham and held out on the guilty verdict
Chapter 24
Aunt Alexandra has her church group over
Miss. Maudie sticks up for the Finch family
Tom Robison is shot 17 times trying to escape the farm prision
Chapter 25
Atticus tells Helen, Tom’s wife about his death
Chapter 26
School starts
Jem is in 7th grade
Scout is in 3rd grade
Jem is the water boy for the football team due to his size
Chapter 27
Halloween pageant is created
Scout will play a ham
Chapter 28
Jem takes Scout to the Halloween festival.
On the way there Cecil Jacobs scares them
Scout and Cecil both have 30 cents and go around to the booths having fun
Scout falls asleep and misses her pageant entrance
Jem and Scout begin to walk home
Scout forgets her shoes
Lights go off at school so she will have to get them tomorrow
Jem hears something
Scout thinks it is Cecil again and yells out-no response
Scout and Jem are attacked
Someone carries Jem home
The doctor comes over and Heck Tate
Heck Tate syas Bob Ewell is dead under the tree
Chapter 29
Heck Tate ask Scout to go over what happened that night
Chapter 30
Scout realizes it was Boo Radley in the room
Atticus and Heck argue over what happened
Heck says he Bob Ewell feel on his knife to protect Boo Radley from the notoriety
Scout says Heck is righ-t “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”
Chapter 31
Scout walks Boo Radley home and never sees him again
Finish the book with everyone sitting in Jem’s room-Atticus is reading Scout The Gray Ghost