Makes Change in the ______Plate on Sundays

To Kill a Mockingbird

Chapter 6 Worksheet

Mr Avery • Makes change in the ______plate on Sundays. • Sits on the ______until nine and sneezes. • One ______the children saw him ______himself from the porch and never since. Jem, Dill and Scout 1. They told Atticus they were ______to sit at the fishpond 2. Jem and Dill ______to look if they could see Boo ______one of the Radley’s house windows. 3. They ______Scout to join them. 4. They ______the house from the back. 5. They saw ______and Jem got on the back porch. 6. A man’s ______went past him. 7. They ran ______and someone shot. 8. Jem lost his ______. 9. Dill lied to Atticus and said Jem lost it in ______poker 10. Jem ______Atticus so much that he chanced getting shot by Mr ______just to not have Atticus punish him. Atticus, Miss Maudie Atkinson, Stephanie Crawford, Miss Rachel, Mr Avery and Nathan Radley • Nathan Radley says he saw a ______in his backyard and shot in the air with his shotgun. • Stephanie Crawford saw Jem ______his pants and was shocked. • Atticus ______the children when he heard they had played strip poker. Vocabulary collards (n.): a type of cabbage with very coarse leaves. It would be difficult to walk quietly through a patch of collards. dismemberment (n.): To dismember someone is to tear or cut that person's limbs (arms and legs) off. Although it is unlikely that anyone would have actually pulled off Dill's arms and legs, Lee uses the word to point out how outraged Miss Rachel must have been to discover that the children had been playing strip poker. eerily (adv.): weirdly; mysteriously ensuing (adj.): Something that ensues is something that comes immediately after something else. Franklin stove (n.): a cast iron heating stove, invented by Benjamin Franklin. kudzu (n.): a quick-growing vine with large leaves, often found in the Southern United States. lattice-work (adj.): A lattice is an openwork structure of crossed strips or bars, as in a screen. Light that passes through any kind of a lattice -work would produce lattice-work shadows. malignant (adj.): dangerous; evil prowess (n.): superior ability or skill ramshackle (adj.): loose or rickety; about to fall apart respiration (n.): breathing rigid (adj.): stiff waning (adj.): becoming less bright, intense, or strong. The moonlight is waning because it's getting closer to morning, and the moon is changing its position in the sky.