To Kill A Mockingbird Group Questions

Directions: Answer the following questions as a group. First, discuss all possible answers and
listen as your groupmates share their answers. As a group, decide which is the best answer to
each question. Each group needs to choose one person to write down the group’s answers.
Everyone in the group will receive the same grade. Use evidence from the book to support
your answers.

1. What does Scout mean when she says, “By the time we reached our front steps Walter
had forgotten he was a Cunningham”?

2. According to Atticus, who are the “common folk” in Maycomb? What characteristics
does he say, or imply, are shared by the “common folk”?

3. Who does Atticus say are not included in the “common folk”? Why are they excluded?

4. In this chapter, we learn more about the Finches, the Cunninghams, and the Ewells.
Which of the characters in this chapter have the most power and the highest status in
Maycomb? Which have the least power and status? What accounts for those differences?

5. How does the fact that Scout is the narrator affect the reader’s ability to understand
Jem’s point of view?

6. How can words divide people?

7. Why do some words create more powerful divisions than others?

 Informal Guided Group Questions Rubric

● Makes a prediction and/or draws a conclusion about the text

● Includes details that are not explicitly stated

4 ● Includes a connection between the text or the reader’s background

knowledge (schema)

● Makes a prediction or draws a conclusion about the text

3 ● May include details that are not explicitly stated

● May include details, predictions, or conclusions that are inaccurate
or unsubstantiated based on text information

● Attempts to make a prediction or draw a conclusion about the text

2 ● Includes some inaccuracies such as details, conclusions, or

predictions that are inaccurate or unsubstantiated based on text
information

● No evidence of inference (making a prediction, interpreting

1 information or drawing a conclusion) about the text
● Conveys a minimum amount of information about the text
● May include information that is off-topic

4= Meeting Standard
3= Working to Standard
2= Developing
1= Incomplete