Week 3 Term 3 Homework

Events involving Boo Radley coming out: 

- Jem touches the side of the house at night, the shutter moves and there was some movement insi the house. (pg 16)

- Scout finds some fresh gum in a tree outside the Radley's house (pg 37)

 - Jem and Scout go back to the tree and find a box full of 2 old indian pennies (pg 38)

- Scout is playing in an old car tire, and ends up on the front pavement of Boos house. She recalls hearing laughter inside the house. (pg 42, 45)
- Dill, Jem, and Scout attempt to give Boo a handwritten letter asking him to come out, and that they would buy him an ice-cream. This was unsuccessful and the children were caught out by Atticus (pg 54)

- Jems pants are caught on a fence whilst attempting to peek into the Radley's house with Scout and Dill, his pants are torn and left at the fence (pg 60)

- Jems pants are mended and left over the fence (pg 64)

- Scout and Jem go back to the hole in the tree, and find 2 small carvings of soap, which look like miniature versions of them (pg 66)

- The next week the return to the tree and collected a tarnished medal (pg 67)

- Four days later, they find a broken pocket watch on a chain with an aluminum knife (pg 67)

- Scout and Jem write a letter thistle unknown person giving them all the trinkets, to find that the knothole was filled with cement (pg 69).

- The fire in Ms Maude's house, a blanket is wrapped over Scout unknowingly. (pg 79)

Atticus's journal after the night of the fire in Ms Maude's house: 
 

How could it have happened? The fire at Ms Maude's house? Mr Averlry's dangerous fall? Or how a blanket miraculously appeared on Scout's bear shoulders? It's all just too much. The fire which set ablaze to Ms Maude's house was the first of events, completely unpredictable. It was the coldest night since 1885, when nearly the entire town was up and about Ms Maude's house, moving furniture, and watching in awe. Fire trucks were called upon from places over 60 miles away. I was woken up by the sirens, and was left wondering what all the commotion was about. I woke up Scout and Jem, and headed off towards the burning house. I told Scout and Jem to stay together and to wait outside of the Radley's house, whilst I walked toward the house to help out. I was moving furniture from inside the house, including Ms Maude's well loved wooden rocking chair. Mr Averly was moving furniture too, until the fire rapidly moved upstairs to the second floor where he was. His reactions were quite slow, and he didn't have enough time to walk down stairs and escape. Instead, he climbed outside the window, hoping there would be a safe route from there. He walked around the roof and fell down, landing in Ms Maude's shrubs below. People were wondering whether he was hurt, however their thoughts were contradicted when he stood up, and walked away. The fire was slowly diminishing, however, smoke was traveling fast to our house, and Stephanie's. Afterwards, the children and I returned home to some welcoming hot chocolate. It was then where I realised That Scout had a brown, woolen blanket draped over her shoulders. She and Jem were both extremely confused as to how it got there. They followed my instructions of waiting outside the Radley's house together... What went wrong? Who put that blanket there? Questions were running through my mind. It was then, that moment, where the impossible became possible. Was it Boo Radley who did it? The one man restricted and expected to have stayed inside his whole most his life, come out and place a blanket on a cold girl? Jem went silent, and we all were still in shock. That night, we were all left wondering.