To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary: Week 1

Name:________________________                     Vocabulary: Week 1

 

1. Describe one event from the chapters you've read so far that shows Scout's naïveté. In other words, why is she an ingénue? Be sure to be very specific in your answer.
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

2. How do you know that Scout is reminiscing about the events in the text? Be sure to cite a specific line from the chapter.
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

3. What makes Scout the narrator sagacious? How does her perspicacity affect the reader?
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. What ingenious game does Scout create with Dill and Jem during the first chapter?
   

   
    

 

 

 

 

 

1. Walter Cunningham has no money to pay for his lunch and refuses to borrow money from Miss Caroline Fisher. Why does Scout meddle in the situation? Explain Scout's interference and her candidness in this scene?
   

   
    

   
    

 

 

 

1. Indicate one event from the text that shows that how Scout can be considered unabashed.
   

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

   
    

2. Create two sentences that discuss the events of the first chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird using the following two words: audacity and nostalgia
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK 1:

Words that Describe Scout

 

Noun		Adjective	Adverb	Verb
Person Quality		Describes a Noun	Describes a Verb	Action
	naïveté	naïve	naively
ingénue	ingenuousness	ingenuous	ingenuously
	candidness	candid	candidly
meddler	meddlesomeness	meddlesome, meddling	meddlingly	meddle
		unabashed	unabashedly
	ingenuity	ingenious	ingeniously
	perspicacity	perspicacious	perspicaciously
sage	sagacity	sagacious	sagaciously
	nostalgia	nostalgic	nostalgically
	reminiscence	reminiscent	reminiscently	reminisce
	audacity	audacious	audaciously