To Kill a Mockingbird Quiz: Court Scene Analysis

Part Six: Analyzing Speech

• The speech is about the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) by Martin Luther King Jr.
• The boycott was a response to the unfair treatment of African Americans on Montgomery buses.
• The speech highlights the themes of racism, discrimination, and perseverance.

P.E.E.L. Format

• P.E.E.L. format is used for writing persuasive and argumentative essays.
• Persuasive writing uses logic and reasons to prove a point, and influences the audience through emotions and opinions.
• Argumentative writing is more formal and academic, and requires hard evidence and research to support a claim.

Vocabulary

• Credibility: the quality of being trusted or believed in.
• Stingy: unwilling to spend or ungenerous.
• Auspicious: giving signs or conductive of future success.
• Cunning: having skill in being dishonest or achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion.
• Truancy: the act of being absent from school without permission.
• Verdict: a decision made by a jury or judge in a court case.
• Exile: forced to stay away from a place.
• Unalienable: not capable of being taken away or denied.
• Insufficient: not enough; inadequate.
• Sweltering: uncomfortably hot.
• Invigorating: the feeling of possessing energy; energized.
• Tranquility: in a state of calmness; peace.
• Drowsy: feeling sleepy.
• Timid: displaying a lack of courage or confidence.
• Obituary: a notice of a death.
• Scowl: to frown or glare in an angry manner.
• Petrified: extremely scared.
• Peculiar: strange, odd and unusual.
• Vivid: producing clear and powerful mental images.
• Tedious: tiresome or boring.
• Attorney: a person who acts on behalf of another in legal matters.
• Demonstration: showing something that is real or evident.
• Momentous: a significant or huge deal.
• Withering: shrinking or deteriorating. Slowly dying.
• Prosperity: success.

Part Three: True and False General Knowledge

• Punctuation goes outside the parenthesis in MLA in-text citations.
• A direct quote must be followed by an in-text citation.
• A fact is a statement that can be verified or proven through evidence.

Types of Non-fictions

• Personal or Primary Sources:
  • Diaries
  • Journals
  • Essays
  • Interviews
  • Podcasts
  • Editorials
  • Autobiographies
  • Letters/emails
• References or Informational Text:
  • Textbooks
  • User Manuals
  • Encyclopedias
  • Dictionaries
  • Research Papers
  • Newspapers
  • Biographies
  • Documentaries

Test your understanding of the pivotal court scene in Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Analyze the themes, characters, and plot developments in Chapter 19. (Lee Ch.19 pg. 2)