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=Plot - summary of events in the story (remember to use present tense for summary!)= The narrator, Scout, who is also known as Jean Louise Finch, begins the chapter by explaining her childhood times. She lives with her widowed father Atticus, her brother Jem, and the cook, Calpurnia, in a small town of Alabama of Maycomb. During that summer, Scout and Jem get to know their neighbor, Charles "Dill" Baker Harris. The three leave off and wonder around the Radley place, which they believe is a spine-chilling and haunted residence. Boo Radley has gotten into trouble fifteen years earlier and never set foot out of his house since then. Jem describes Boo's appearance to Dill, "there was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time." (p.13) That has triggered curious Dill, who is eager to see Boo, to dare Jem to touch the daunting house. Once Jem has accomplished the challenge, they dash away from the house and catch a glimpse of inside and an almost invisible movement.
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//**Or like this student did:**// //**__Chapter One is a introduction to everyone.__**// Jean Louis Finch (aka: Scout) lives in old quite town named Maycomb County. She lives during the Great Depression. Her father studied law while his brother, or Uncle Jack, studied medicine. Atticus became a lawyer, supporting his children Scout and her brother Jem. They have a African-American cook named Calpurnia that helps around the house. In the summer when Scout and Jem are playing in the yard, the meet a boy named Charles Barker Harris, but he likes to refer himself as "Dill". He is visiting his aunt Miss Rachel Haverford who happens to live right next to the Finches. Dill quickly becomes the Finches' friend. All summer, they act out plays that they have read. They soon grow tired of this activity, and Dill comes up with an idea that shocks Scout and Jem, Dill's idea is to lure the infamous Boo Radley from his home. Dill's fascination of Boo Radley grows and he convinces Scout ant Jem to help lure Boo out of his house. Dill dares Jem to run up to the Radley house, touch it, and come back. Jem agrees to the task. Jem sprints back and forth to the Radley house. On his way back, Jem rips his pants. Scout, Jem, and Dill look at the house, only to discover that nothing has changed, except for the shutters.

=Setting, background, historical items= **//This was written by Vivian Urquidi in 9th grade//**. In chapter 1 Scout describes the adventures of her ancestor Simon Finch. She describes certain geographical features which we all are not particularly familiar with. So why waste time in re-listing all of them if Scout has already done that for us? Let’s have a closer look at //what// and //where// of those particular places…

Map of the USA -- state of Alabama (south part of the USA, between Georgia and Mississippi) and Maycomb county in red

=**Character profile in Chapter 1**= //**by Ju Yeon Han**//
 * Jem** - Jem is Scout's older brother, being four years her senior. According to Calpurnia, he is well – behaved unlike Scout. He sometimes misses his mother who died when Scout was two. Jem is also scared of the Radley place, believing all the rumors in the neighborhood. However Scout quotes that Jem "loved his honor more than his head"(13), never declining a dare when challenged, like when he risks accomplishing Dill’s dare and runs into the Radley's house.
 * Dill** - Dill, a year Scout's senior, is a small boy from the Meridian, Mississippi who will be spending every summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel (Scout and Jem's neighbor) at Maycomb. Dill, with his white duckfluff hair and shorts buttoned up to his shirt, enjoys and knows a lot about picture shows, sharing his knowledge with Scout and Jem. Scout describes him as "curiosity"(7) as he dangerously becomes interested in Boo Radley. He dares Jem to enter the Radley's house to make Boo come out, showing how he can effectively stimulate people to do certain things.
 * Atticus** - Atticus is the father of Scout and Jem. He works as a lawyer in Maycomb. Looking at his office, his personality seems to be simple and austere. Because of his first clients, he has a “profound distaste for the practice of criminal law”(5). Born and bred in Maycomb County, he is knowledgeable on almost every matter within the neighborhood.
 * Boo Radley** - In chapter 1, Boo is described through other people. He is a mysterious, unseen man with a frightening existence to the neighborhood. It is told that he is confined at home by Mr. Radley. Scout thinks Boo is a "malevolent phantom"(8) and the people also believe that all the bad things that happen within the neighborhood are caused by him. According to a rumor by Miss Stephanie Crawford (neighbor), Boo had once tried to kill his father by driving scissors into his legs. Moreover Jem states that Boo "dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch"(13), his hands bloodstained, his teeth yellow and rotten and his eyes popped.
 * Calpurnia** - Calpurnia is a black woman who works as a cook for the Finchs. She also takes care of Jem and Scout as Atticus is at work all day.

=Photo bank of items mentioned= **Chapter One** //**Collard Patch**// ...in Miss Rachel Haverford's __collard patch.__

//**Chinaberry Tree**// ...resting between giant twin __chinaberry trees.__

//**Azaleas**// When people's __azaleas__ froze in a cold snap...

//(pg. 10, paragraph 2, line 2) "// One night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square in a borrowed // flivver //, resisted arrest by Maycomb’s ancient beadle, Mr. Conner, and locked him in the courthouse outhouse."
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The **Ford Model T** (colloquially known as the **Tin Lizzie** and also the **Flivver**) was an automobile produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage. //- Excerpt from// //Wikipedia//

//**Courthouse Outhouse**// ...locked him in the __courthouse outhouse.__

//**Spittoon**// 1897 Saloon - Notice the spittoon at the beginning of a bar. Aiming into a spittoon was hard!
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//**Cowlick**//
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 * Cowlick hair ||

"he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead." (P. 8) Definition: a lock of hair that grows in a direction different from the rest and that resists being combed flat

//**Shorts buttoned to the shirt**// Boy's 2-pc playsuit l930's era has white top with v neck, colorful block pattern short pants that button on to the top with 6 m/o/p buttons.

//**Picket Fence**// Definition: a wooden fence made of spaced uprights connected by two or more horizontal rails.

//**Wooden Sawhorse**//
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 * Wooden Sawhorse ||

"Wooden sawhorses blocked the road at each end of the Radley lot" (P. 12) Definition: a frame or trestle that supports wood for sawing.

//**Rat Terrier**//

//**Johnson Grass**//

//**Pecan Tree**//

//**Cannas**//

//**Rabbit-Tobacco**//

= Vocabulary __Chapter 1__ = = 1. Habitually – like a habit or all of the time = = 2. Teemed -To be full of things; abound or swarm = = 3. Morbid -suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude = = 4. Domiciled -a place of residence; abode; house or home = = 5. Foray - a place of residence; abode; house or home = = 6. Assuaged - soothed/eased e.g. "When it healed, Jem's fears of nerver being able to play foot ball were assuaged..." (p.3) = = 7. Apothecary - something like a chemist (medical career) e.g. " All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary form Cornwall..." (p.3) = = 8. Piety - reverence for God e.g. "Whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess." (p.3) = = 9. Chattels - one's own mobile property; human chattels = slaves 10. ** Taciturn ** - silent in expression and manner e.g. " She married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock..." (p.4) 11. ** Predilection ** - a liking for something e.g. "The Radleys kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb." (p.9) 12. ** Vapid ** - dull, uninteresting e.g. "By the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions..." (p.8) 13. ** Persecution ** - subject someone to hostility and ill treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs e.g. "Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists..." (p.3) 14. ** Strictures ** - a restriction on a person or activity e.g. "Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling..." (p.4) 15. ** Wilted ** - drooped e.g. "Men's stiff collars wilted by nine..." (p.5) 16. **Flivver**- cheap car or aircraft, especially one in bad condition e.g. "the boys backed around the square in a borrowed flivver..." (p.10) 17. ** Beadle ** - a ceremonial officer of a church, college, or similar institution e.g. "resisted arrest by Maycomb's ancient beadle, Mr. Conner..." (p.10) 18. ** Probate ** - official proving of a will "the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct..." (p.10) =