Eleven

**Chapter Eleven (discussion director, you fill in the information below by copying and pasting what your team wrote on the shared Google Doc). **

 * Discussion Director** - Howard

1. What did you think of Mrs. Dubose? 2. What feelings did you have when she died? 3. What kind of feelings do you think Jem had? 4. Do you think that Mrs. Dubose's actions were correct? 5. If it had been you in Jem's place, what would you have done instead?


 * Summarizer** - Alex

Jem and Jeane are coming back home from town the normal route. Jem decides to take vengance on Ms. Dubose by destroying her garden and gets caught by Atticus. Jem's punishment is to read to Ms. Dubose everyday and he gets in a routine of doing just that. When his time is up he still resents Ms. Dubose for calling his father names.


 * Vocabulary Enricher** - Gnyanesh

Apoplectic (Pg. 100) - overcome with anger; extremely indignant. Acquisition (Pg. 102) - an asset or object bought or obtained, typically by a library or museum. Reconnaissance (Pg. 105) - preliminary surveying or research. Druther (Pg. 105) - a person's preference in a matter. Propensities (Pg. 108) - an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.

This chapter shows how Jem judges Mrs. Dubose as a crazy old lady, who was evil, cruel, and scary. In a way, it was true, but Jem learns later on that he didn't see the whole story of Mrs. Dubose, how she was fighting her addiction of morphine, and how she wanted to die free of it. I can relate to the story because I've often labeled people, and not for the better. I remember at the start of 6th grade, I met a kid. He often cried a lot, and I thought he was a wimp. Later on, I got to know him a lot better. I realized that it was hard for him to adjust, and that he was going through a lot. I became good friends with him, and later, we became inseparable.
 * Connector** - Jason


 * Investigator - DonMany people struck by the great depression became indentured servants, or people working to pay off their creditors. African American servants during the Great Depression were not that common, because not many people had to money to hire servants. Many people who did have servants became friends with them. A pre-Depression example would be George Washington, who’s best friend was one of his father’s servants. **