CH+10-11


 * Chapter 10-**


 * mausoleum (90)**- a large tomb; //especially// **:** a usually stone building with places for entombment of the dead above ground.

[] This is one of the most important chapters of the book. Atticus's line address's the main title: "...But remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" pg90 Jem and Scout are realizing that Atticus is older than the other children’s parents. When they want him to play with them he usually does, but when Jem asks him to do things like play foot ball or a rough sport, he says that he is too old for that any more.
 * Azaleas (90)-** a type of flower that booms in the spring. Its flower pedals usual fall off in 3 short weeks.
 * vehemently (95)-**full of vigor or energy; strong; Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Jem and Scout go out into the woods to play. They are looking for targets for their new guns when Jem sees a dog walking down the street. They run back to the house and tell Calprina and she runs out and finds Tim Johnson, a dog owned by Harry Johnson. She tells the neighbors. Atticus and Mr. Tate are watching the dog hobble through the neighborhood. Mr. Tate has a shotgun, but is having a hard time making a shot. Atticus is getting worried that the dog is getting too close so he takes the shotgun from Mr. Tate and makes the shot himself. He killed Tim in one shot. His children were watching and they no longer think that Atticus is an old man who can’t do anything.

devoid (110)-**Completely lacking; destitute or empty **propenisities (108)-** a natural tendency or disposition.
 * Chapter 11
 * apoplectic (100)**-of, relating to, or causing stroke
 * scuppernong (101)**- Scuppernongs are defined as a type of bronze muscadine grape. They are distinguished from the purplish muscadines by their green, amber, or bronze color. They were originally called the "big white grape." Scuppernongs are very large, about twice the size of a regular grape, with a thick, bitter skin.

Jem and Scout have been going to town everyday by them selves for quite some time now, and every day Mrs. Dubose roughs them up a little or says something that they don’t like. Well one day when they were going into town she got on them about skipping school. It was Saturday, not that that mattered to her anyway. She found other things to say to them, like how Scout is a girl that wears overalls, Atticus is a lawyer who defends blacks, and Jem broke Miss Atkinson's scuppernong arbor earlier that morning. Saying what Mrs. Dubose said about Atticus, put Jem over the edge. He went mad, he started cutting off the tops to all of her camellia bushes and then he took the baton that he had just bought for Scout and broke it in half over his knee. As his punishment for ruining her flowers Jem had to go to Mrs. Dubose everyday after school and on Saturday to read to her, for two hours every time. The first time he went to read, Mrs. Dubose was acting like she was asleep or lost, and couldn't pay attention. So then Jessie sent him home. Jem later figured out why Mrs. Dubose never seemed like she was listening to him. She was coming off of medicine that she had been addicted to for a long time. She was slowly taking less and less of the drug until by the time she died she would be off of it completely. She sent him a box with one of the camellias in it. It was signifying that now things would be fine. There are a couple of big lines and statements in These chapters. One is coming from Maudie about pride What is that.....DO you agree with it. Does she make a good point? What is the point?
 * SAHLI SAYS**

Atticus also makes some points about courage when he is talking about MRS. Dubose. WHat does he say about courage? Agree? where does that fit in 2010?