3. Here are nine events mentioned in the first 13 paragraphs of To Kill a Mockingbird, written in the order in which they appear in the text. But in
what order did
they really happen? Work with your classmates to number
the events chronologically. Two of the events are referenced in the Historical
Background feature earlier in this activity.
Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Dill gave Scout and Jem the idea of making Boo Radley come out.
In England, Simon Finch was irritated by the persecution of those who
called themselves Methodists.
Simon Finch worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia,
thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.
There was a disturbance between the North and the South
Atticus Finch went to Montgomery to read law.
Atticus Finch returned to Maycomb and began his law practice.
Maycomb County (and the United States) had recently been told that
it had "nothing to fear but fear itself."
Scout and Jem's mother died.