Tuesday, January 13, 2015

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, what are three things Scout gets into trouble for on the first day of school?

In Chapter 2 of
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird,
Scout encounters a series of
conflicts
with her first-grade teacher Miss Caroline Fisher, a woman who
is also new to Maycomb.  What's particularly interesting is that Scout does not truly do
anything wrong in this chapter per say; she simply does things wrong in the eyes of her
teacher. Miss Fisher particularly judges Scout for appearing to be smarter
than the teacher
and responding in a flippant voice. As we are limited in
space, below are a few ideas to help get you
started.

Scout first offends her teacher
by showing she can read the entire alphabet and easily read
from My First Reader and The Mobile Register.
In her teacher's eyes, Miss Fisher is the one who should be teaching Scout how to read,
no one else. In response to Scout's reading abilities, Miss Fisher insists that Scout
tell her father "not to teach [her] any more" so that Miss Fisher can "undo the
damage--" (Ch. 2). However, though Scout's response about being swapped at birth is
flippant, Scout's response is fairly honest--Scout taught herself to
read
, and Miss Fisher should be rejoicing in Scout's brilliance, not
feeling her talents as a teacher are being insulted merely because Scout is more
intelligent than Miss Fisher.

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