Open your browser and type in https://www.chipublib.org Read the biography from the Chicago Public
Library.
Then, answer the following in complete sentences:
1. How would you characterize, or describe, Harper Lee?
2. Provide three examples from the text to support your answers.
When finished, Read the opening two paragraphs of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. https://www.raio.org
(TKMFull Text PDF), OR https://www.booksfree.org (To kill a mockingbird pdf free download, Aug 2, 2021).
The passage is written from the perspective of the character an narrator Scout Finch.
3. What can you learn about Scout based on only these two paragraphs?
4. How is Scout's retrospective point of view evident in her voice? What words or phrases let us know that she
is no longer a child?
Retrospective Definition: Looking back ("retro"-meaning back, and "spect" meaning look")