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Post by Mrs. Kelly on Oct 24, 2014 12:59:37 GMT
Chapters 2-3 - Atticus tells Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” Explain what Atticus means. Then give an example from your life where you experienced his statement. Remember to also answer the guidelines from the handout.
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Post by Jim Drew Hour 3 on Oct 24, 2014 20:25:12 GMT
When Atticus tells Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it." He is saying, that you should not judge someone until you know what they have been through. It is basically the equivalent of saying "Walk a mile in someone else's shoes" Because, you never know, they could act the way they do for a reason. They could have been through things that changed their out look on life. If someone is very angry all the time, it could be because of something that happened in their life that changed them. It is a very good rule to follow, because if you went through something traumatic, you would not want someone getting mad at you or insulting you for the way you react. Sometimes, people can not help how they react to the situation. I think the saying is really helpful in life. A lot of times, I get judge someone, because of the way they act, like if they are angry a lot. But, like I said before, they could act that way for a reason.I do not have a specific time in general, but I know I have done it before, and I try to stop myself when I do, but sometimes I just do out of habit. 3) Ms. Caroline judges Walter Caroline without knowing what his life is like at home page 25 4) I did not find anything confusing 5) Theres need for moral education, because Atticus teaches Scout how to be a better person by teaching her not to judge people without knowing what they've been through. 6) In class they read a story about talking cats which has personification, because cats can't talk.
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Post by Jim Drew Hour 3 on Oct 24, 2014 20:56:54 GMT
I meant Walter Cunningham not Walter Caroline
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Rachel Kottoor Period 3
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Post by Rachel Kottoor Period 3 on Oct 25, 2014 0:03:46 GMT
Atticus says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” This is like the same thing that people say today. Some people say, "put yourself in their shoes" or "never judge a book by its cover", meaning understand what they are trying to say and pretend that you were them and think about what they are going through. You should never judge someone by just looking at them once. For example when Scout's teacher Miss Caroline judged little Walter Cunningham. She did this unjustly and she didn't think about what he was going through or his life style. I remember when I was at Eastside Volleyball Club for tryouts, and there was a girl who looked like she was here for a beauty pageant and not to play volleyball. My friends were talking about her, but when she started played, we realized that she is a really good player. We judged her before we even got to see her play.
3.Something that I found confusing was are Little Chuck and Burris Ewell the same person? 4.Innocene/appearance vs. reality...Walter Cunningham was a guy that no one liked (outcast), but he turned out to be a very nice young man. 5.Plot: It is the logical sequence of events that develops a story.
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Post by Katlan Barrett on Oct 25, 2014 20:45:32 GMT
Kaitlan Barrett Period 2 When Atticus says you never understand someone until you look from their point of view. This means that you never know how someone feels or knows or doesn't know until you see it from their point of view. One time I have experienced this was when I was in an argument with my friend and I never knew that I did not know the whole story and I felt awful. There is always two sides of a story and you only know one and you will only know the other side until you can see it from their point of view. One thing I found confusing was why did Scout yell at Walter Cunningham at the dinner table (page 32)? Appearance versus reality plays a part in these chapters because with the Cunninghams you would think that they would be asking people for money and accepting peoples generosity but instead they don't accept people trying to help them and they just sacrifice not having things and not hurting their friendships so this just proves that they appear like people who would ask for help but instead they live off what little they have and never take anything that they can not pay back because they don't want to take advantage of people. Irony appears in this book when Miss.Caroline is mad that Scout can read you would think she would be happy that one of her students knows how to read (page 22- 23).
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Grace Tony Period 5
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Post by Grace Tony Period 5 on Oct 25, 2014 20:54:59 GMT
What Atticus means is that you can never really know someone's point of view on a subject until you look at the subject like they look at it. He wants Scout to understand why Miss Caroline might be acting mean to her or why she says things that to Scout are such obvious taboos. Atticus is teaching Scout a life lesson in this, as well as getting her to understand all people on a better level. A time when I experienced this is when I wanted my friend to read a book series, but she didn't want to. I couldn't understand why she wouldn't at least try it but then I realized that she probably wouldn't try it because of the genre it was so I stopped bugging her about reading it. 3. An example of this is when Scout judges Miss Caroline to be a mean teacher. page 28 4. I didn't find anything very confusing about this chapter. 5. The need for a moral education because Atticus has to teach Scout about how some people don't have morals and how they are worse off than people who have good morals. 6. New characters are introduced with their personalities and we get to see Scout reacting to more people so characterization is a literary element. Characterization: the process in which an author introduces and describes a new character.
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Allie Dries 5th hour
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Post by Allie Dries 5th hour on Oct 26, 2014 16:33:31 GMT
1. When Atticus tells Scout, " You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it." Atticus is telling Scout to not judge people by the way they look or by the way they act, but by the way they are. It's pretty much saying never judge a book by it's cover. Some people are so strong on the outside but on the inside there could be something really bothering them or they are really hurt by someone. Some people act a different way to be cool or they just act a different way trying to hide something. Many people have life-changing experiences and after that happens they might act different from the way something affected them. This has happened to me before. When I was younger i was very small and many people in soccer thought, "Oh, she;s so little, she can't do anything." The thing is I wasn't that bad and you can't judge a book by it's cover. 4. I was confused why Ms. Caroline got upset when Scout told her a story but when Little Chuck Little told her a story he didn't get in any trouble. 5. The need for a moral education comes in in this section because you need an education to get far in life and like Burris Ewell skipping school is never going to do anything good for him. 6. Irony when Miss Caroline is mad that Atticus taught her how to read but you would think Miss Caroline would be happy that Scout already knows how to read.
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Doug Guzman Period 3
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Post by Doug Guzman Period 3 on Oct 26, 2014 17:28:54 GMT
1. The quote "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it" said by Atticus to Scout means that you can't really judge what other people can or can not do unless you are either in their shoes, or in the exact same position as them. This quote applied to me in fifth grade. I was talking to someone, and they mentioned a topic we disagreed on. I was going to argue, but realized it would not to anything good or worthwhile, so I put myself into his skin and came up with a way to avoid the topic. Something that confused me in this set of chapters was how Walter Cunningham would not accept the lunch money from Miss Caroline, but did accept the offer Jem made to have lunch at his house. I do not get why Jem inviting Walter over is different from Miss Caroline trying to give Walter some lunch money (page 30) . A literary element in this set of chapters is mood. The Miss Caroline's attitude, and Walters set a kind of mellow mood to the story. The need for a moral education is also present when Atticus tells Scout that you can't understand someone unless you walk around in his or her skin.
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Jack Frank 5th Hour
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Post by Jack Frank 5th Hour on Oct 26, 2014 18:02:42 GMT
The quote, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.”, is said by Atticus Finch, and is directed to Scout. He says this because Scot is explaining her rough day and how her teacher is odd, and he gives her this quote, meaning that she should look at whats going on from what the teacher may be experiencing. I have experienced this firsthand for the past year. I want the video game Fifa for my Xbox, but since my sister likes it too I always try to convince her to pay half of it so we can share. I want her to share because it is sixty dollars, and that's too expensive for me. So, i ask her to pay for twenty to twenty-five dollars. She always gets mad at me and she says I do it just so I can get the game... which is true. But, I guess I need to look at it from her perspective and realize that she truly just doesn't want to spend her money on it.
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Kaitlyn Osmulski Period 5
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Post by Kaitlyn Osmulski Period 5 on Oct 26, 2014 18:38:34 GMT
1) Kaitlyn Osmulski Period 5 2)&3) In chapter three, Atticus told Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it." (page 34). Miss Caroline had asked to see everyones lunch and everybody had a lunch except for Walter Cunningham (page 24). She had decided to give him lunch money for the day but Scout knew that she would never get the money back because he is so poor. When Atticus said this, he was telling Scout that you do not know how people feel of what they think of something unless you think of it from their point of view and pretend to think like them. I have experienced this when I have been in arguments with either my mom, dad, or friends. I always get mad at them and not talk to them but usually I end up figuring out that there was something behind the story that I did not know. After I figure out the entire story I usually end up feeling really mad and the fighting was stupid because I was over exaggerating. 4) One thing that I found confusing was who little Chuck was and what family he was from. 5) One theme was appearance vs. reality because Walter Cunningham was a very poor person who most people did not like, but once Scout talked to him and met him she realized that he was a very nice kid but he was just very poor. Scout began to see his life from Walter's point of view. 6) One example of a literary element is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing shows up when the teacher tells Scout to have his father stop teaching him how to read (page 21). This is foreshadowing because the teacher does not like how smart Scout is so I think that she does not like Scout very much. I think this will affect the story and i think it is foreshadowing something.
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Catie Schimmelpfenning Period3
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Post by Catie Schimmelpfenning Period3 on Oct 26, 2014 19:12:33 GMT
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.”, is said by Atticus Finch. He is telling Scout to This means that you can't just look at a person and automatically think you know their life story. You can't just judge them right away. In reality, you really don't know what anyone is going through until you look at life through their eyes and feel what they feel. Atticus is trying to help Scout become a better person. This happened to me when in fourth grade I wanted to work on the writing portion and have the other person take the pictures and print them out at home. The other person said that they would write instead. I didn't want to take the pictures. Then, I looked through their perspective and realized that they didn't have a printer at home because they couldn't afford it, so I went ahead and took the pictures. I was confused on page 30. I didn't understand why Scout was rubbing Walter's nose in the dirt. An example of appearance vs. reality is that Walter Cunningham appears weird, rude, and stubborn. In reality, he is poor, respectful, and has too much honor and pride to take someone else's money. Irony took place in this book when Miss Caroline finds out that Scout can read and she is very upset about it. Miss Caroline should be happy about Scout's incredible ability to read.
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Post by Maddy George on Oct 26, 2014 20:04:55 GMT
Atticus tells Scout, " You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it." In this line, Atticus is explaining to Scout that you can't judge a person and you can't say that you understand a person if you don't know them. People can't go around judging other people for the way that they look or talk when the in reality the person judging usually has something different about them. There is a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin and it is also one of my favorites, "Clean your finger before you point at my spots." What he is saying is that before you tell me my flaws, you should probably focus on yours. One time while I was at St. Mark, a girl came to our school in the middle of the year. Nobody knew who she was and nobody really wanted anything to do with her because people thought she looked weird. But when the principal came in and gave us a chat about how she moved schools because of bullying, we all felt kind of terrible and she was soon accepted. I didn't really understand why Ms. Caroline was so mad about Atticus teaching her how to read, unless Ms. Caroline was jealous. An appearance vs. reality example would be how Walter is seen as a mean, dirty and disrespectful boy, but in reality, he is very poor, had working, humble, and sweet. Personification took place in this book when Ms. Caroline tells the story of the talking cats. Cats cannot talk.
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Catherine Hilbert Hour 3
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Post by Catherine Hilbert Hour 3 on Oct 26, 2014 20:09:49 GMT
When Atticus says this he means you have to know how they’re feeling and what they’re thinking in order to understand their actions and choices. For example in the book the teacher is upset with Scout because she isn’t clear on what she means and punishes her. Atticus wants Scout to understand Miss Caroline’s reasons for her actions, so that she’ll be more patient and understanding of Miss Caroline instead of judging her. Scout finally understood this when she was thinking, “Atticus said I had learned many things today, and Miss Caroline had learned several things herself. She had learned not to hand something to a Cunningham, for one thing, but if Walter and I had put ourselves in her shoes we’d have seen it was an honest mistake on her part. We could not expect her to learn all Maycomb’s ways in one day, and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better.” (To Kill A Mockingbird 40). An example from my life is when I fought with my sister and I only looked at it from my perspective. By listening to what she had to say I was able to in a way walk around in her shoes so that I that could understand from her perspective rather than my own. One thing I found confusing was are the Cunningham’s from the beginning of the book with Boo related to Walter? I found the theme of appearance/innocence versus reality when Miss Caroline thought Walter forgot his lunch so she offered money (appearance). However Walter did not forget his lunch (reality). A literary element I found is a metaphor when Atticus tells Scout to climb into Miss Caroline’s skin. He doesn’t mean literally climb into her skin, but her personality, feelings, etc.
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Anna Smarjesse 3rd Period
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Post by Anna Smarjesse 3rd Period on Oct 26, 2014 20:31:25 GMT
When Atticus tells Scout “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” He really is trying to say that you will never fully understand why a person does certain thing that you don’t do or why they don’t live their live like you do until you have seen things through their point of view. This quote also tell us you cannot judge someone until you really know who they are. Jem and Scout made up what they think that Boo Radley really looks like, they said he is six feet tall, has blood stained hands because he eat cats an squirrels and has yellow rotten teeth. They think because everyone says he is crazy he has to look like a crazy man who has spent almost his whole life locked up inside of his home because of his juvenial ways when he was a teenager. Since Boo never comes outside they wouldn’t know what he really looks like, but he could be the complete opposite of what they think he looks like because they never really knew what he went through or exactly what happened.
In my life I know have have judged someone before knowing who they are, what their life is like or what they have been through in their life without realizing what i am doing. Even though we try not to we have all judged someone that we didn't really know all that well. That is was Jem, Scout and pretty much the rest of the town is doing, they are judging Boo before they have had a chance to know who he is or what his real life story is.
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Blaine Tracy 5th Hour
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Post by Blaine Tracy 5th Hour on Oct 26, 2014 21:20:36 GMT
When Atticus tells Scout, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it." he is trying to explain to Scout that in order to know how a person deals with problems and what causes their actions, you must know what has occurred in the past that affected their lives. He wants her to be able to comprehend that you need to know someone's personality and their life before you can make judgements and come to conclusions about them. It would be wrong to judge someone and assume things about them based off only the decisions they make, and not why they made those decisions. I can't recall any single example of a time that I did this, but that most certainly doesn't mean that I haven't. It's hard to take all of that into account when you notice something to cause you to pass judgement. All that most people notice is the peculiarities, and don't take the time to try to find reasons for them. An example from these chapters of this is when Miss Caroline judges Walter Cunningham on page 25. The thing I found confusing was that Miss Caroline seems to have some unmotivated hatred for Scout. Nothing Scout ever does is right in her eyes, yet it is sheer perfection when another student does something similar. The need for moral education is a theme in these chapters. The quote from Atticus is used to provoke moral thinking. Metaphor is a literary element used, when Atticus says to climb in someone's skin and walk around in it. He doesn't actually mean that.
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