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Chapter 3

Chapter 3 mainly focuses on Scouts troubles in school. She and the teacher, Miss Caroline, do not get along very well. Scout gets her hand slapped with a ruler and sent to the corner because she knows how to read and write. Scout got in trouble mainly because of her explaination of the Cunningham's to Miss Caroline who was going to give a quarter to Walter so that he could have lunch.Miss Caroline says she is bringing in a new way of teaching known as the Dewey Decimal System. So Miss Carolline tells Scout that she has to stop reading and that Atticus needs to stop teaching her because he is doing it the wrong way. After school Scout begins picking on Walter because he got her in trouble with Miss Caroline. Jem intervenes, tells Scout to stop and invites Walter over for dinner. Scout then gets in trouble for insulting Walter for putting too much syrup. We learn that the Cunningham's are an extremely poor family of farmers who never borrow anything they can't repay and often make payments in firewood or whatever else they can grow on their farm. So later on Scout tries convincing Atticus to let her not go to school anymore because she has to stop reading and she doesnt want to stop. The two of them also get in conversation about a student in school known as Burris Ewell and his family about how they have been and are a disgrace to Maycomb society. The children of the family only show up to school on the first day, then never return in order to avoid truancy charge from the plolice. They discuss how Mr. Ewell spends most of the money he earns on alcohol, especially Green Whiskey. Unlike the Cunninghams, the Ewells have no integrity. They also talk about how they live like animals instead of human beings.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 takes place at the end of their school year and the beginning days of summer vacation. While Scout was on her way home from school, she notices in one of the trees in the front yard of the Radleys place, that there were two peices of chewing gum sticking out of a hole in the tree. She runs home and puts them in her mouth. Then a half hour later, Jem gets home from school and asks Scout where she got the gum. She tells him that she got it from the tree in the Radleys place yard, but Jem doesnt believe her. The next day as Scout and Jem were on their way home from their last day of school, they both come to the Radleys place and Scout shows Jem the spot on the tree where she got the gum. But this time, in the same place where the gum had been, was a little box with gum tinfoil wrapper patched on it. Jem quickley snatches the box, and they both rush home. They open the box and find two Indian-head pennies inside. Wondering whose they could be, they keep them using the "finders-keepers" rule. Jem puts them in his trunk. Since it was the beginning of summer, it was the time when Dill would come back to live with Miss Rachel for the summer. With no games to play, Jem comes up with the idea to make up a game called "Boo Radley". Scout plays Mrs. Radley, Dill plays Mr. Radley, and Jem plays Boo. They reneact all the things that they heard go on in they Radley family. They dont let anybody know that they are playing this game. One day however while they were playing "Boo Radley" with scissors, Atticus catches them and suspects something and tells them he hopes this game has nothing to do with the Radleys.
 * SAHLI SAYS ** Jacob nice job finding the heees to shees and his to hers. Yes Scout is a girl and always will be.

Characters:
 * Cunninghams**: Poor family of farmers who make payments with things they can grow on their farm.
 * Walter Cunningham**: the youngest Cunningham

Little Chuck Little-School student, a gentlemen in every way.

D.C.-School student


 * Ewells**: A rotten family that lives in the woods and whose __kids only show upon the first day of school to avoid truancy charges__. Their father is a **contentious** man who spends much of his money on Alcohol.
 * Burris Ewell**- Student with cooties who shows up only on the first day of school. He makes Miss Caroline cry.

Terms:


 * Contentious**: exhibiting an often perverse and wearisome tendency to quarrels and dispute


 * Fractious**: tending to be troublesome


 * Crackling Bread**: Crackling bread is like cornbread with fatback ( bacon fat ) mixed up in it.The "Crackling" in crackling bread is the crisp brown skin with a crisp layer of fat that is created when pork skins are cooked. It is known as Pork crackling or Chicharon and is a popular food in the southern U.S., it is commonly served as a snack. Cracking is prepared by boiling the pork rind in water seasoned with a variety of spices. Another method of cooking is to deep-fry the rind and season to taste.


 * Camellia**: any of a genus (//Camellia//) of or trees of the tea family; //especially// **:** an ornamental greenhouse shrub (//C. japonica//) with glossy leaves and roselike flower.[[image:camellia.jpg]]
 * Scuppernong**: a large type of muscadine, a type of grape native to the southeastern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and about 50% larger and first known as the 'big white grape'




 * Green Whiskey**: is a pure pot stilled Irish whiskey, produced specifically for Mitchell & Son of Dublin, by Irish Distillers at the Midleton Distillery, Cork, Ireland. It is the one of the only remaining bonded Irish whiskeys, and is currently the only brand specifically produced for and sold by an independent wine merchant in Ireland. Green Whiskey was described by whiskey writer Jim Murray as "unquestionably one of the world's great whiskeys**."** **SAHLI SAYS** Good try but Bob Ewell will not be drinking some thing like this. Prohibition is still in effect until basically the end of 1933 so a fine bottled whiskey is not available nor is it something he would be spending his money on. Try again

**SAHLI SAYS** Nice job guys. Now how about Green whiskey We need more information about the Ewells. Why do they go only one day? Why is it ok to make social concessions for them but not Cunninghams....finches?