To Kill a Mockingbird Reading and Assignment Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

th th th th th
8 Chapters 1-3 9 10 11 12
Reading Quiz

15th Chapters 4- 16th 17th 18th 19th

6 Reading Quiz
RJ #1 Due
22nd Chapters 7- 23rd 24 th
25th 26th
11 Reading Quiz
RJ #2 Due
29th Chapters 30th 31 st
1st 2nd
12-15 Reading Quiz
RJ #3 Due
5th Chapters 16- 6th 7 th
8th 9th
21 Reading Quiz
RJ #4 Due
12th Chapters 13th 14 th
15th 16th
22-26 Reading Quiz
RJ #5 Due
18th Chapters 20th BREAK- 21st BREAK- No 22nd BREAK- 23rd BREAK-
27-31 No School School No School No School

26th Reading 27th 28th 29th 30th

Quiz
RJ #6 Due
Assignments:
1. Reading Sections- Each Monday you will be responsible to read a section of the text,
which you will be given a reading quiz on the corresponding Thursday (other than the
last week, due to Winter Break).
2. Reading Quiz- For each section of the text, you will take a reading quiz. The quiz is to
determine if you are keeping-up with your reading and understanding the text. Students
whom score an 80 or above on their reading assessment will be excused in completing
the reading journal for the following week.
3. Reading Journals (RJ)- Students must complete the following for each reading journal:
 Identify something important in each chapter that you are reading. You need to
cite the section and explain the importance to the development of the plot of the
novel.
 Pick FIVE words from the section that you do not know. Create your own
vocabulary list by completing the following for each word: write the word and the
page number you found it on, define the word, and write an explained simile of
the word (unsullied are like fresh towels out of the dryer, because both are fresh,
clean, and spotless).
 Standards Based Questions- Pick One for Each Journal
Standard 1-  In your opinion, what is the most surprising or
Textual interesting part of the text? Explain your thoughts with
Evidence textual evidence.
 Which part of the text raises questions for you? What
are the questions?
Standard 2  What are the central ideas or themes being developed
Finding the in the text? Explain using textual evidence.
main idea or  What kind of research do you think the author of each
theme; text needed to do in order to write this
summarizing [book/article/other]?
 How can you apply the central idea(s) in these texts to
a current problem or issue today?
Standard 3  Do the facts in the pre-reading activity support the text
Analyzing or contradict it? Explain using details from each text.
how events,  Make a connection between parts in the text (like
individuals, or sequence of events, setting and problem or
ideas develop characters/people and central idea)? Explain your
and interact thinking with textual evidence.
Standard 4  What is the tone in the section you are reading? What
Understanding words in each text lead you to this conclusion?
word choice  Does Lee make Scout a reliable narrator? What parts of
as craft the text make her reliable or unreliable?
Standard 5  What genre(s) are represented in the text? Think of it
Analyzing as a movie, what type of movie would it be? Explain
structure and why you think so.
genre  Think how the author presented her work. Which
format would be best for a young child? An older
child? An adult? Explain.
Standard 6  What is the point of view in the text? What textual
Assessing evidence supports this?
how point of  What is the author’s purpose in the section you are reading?
view and Explain your thinking.
purpose shape
content and
style