to kill a mockingbird

  • scout goes to school

    teacher tells her not to read
    she meets walter cunningham
  • dill returns for summer

    jem and scout play outside and see a boy sitting on a porch, he announces his name is charles but people call him dill
  • radley house

    scout walked home from school and noticed a shiny thing sticking out of the tree in the radley lawn, she looked at it and it was 2 piece of gum (not poisoned). one the last day, they find piece of tinfoil in the same knothole, and behind it a jewelry box, decorated with more tinfoil, containing two Indian-head pennies
  • mad dog

    cal notices a mad dog down the street
    atticus is called to shoot the dog
    jem and scout find out their father has the best shot in town
  • tom robinson

    scout fights cecil jacobs for saying atticus he defends "n*ggers"
    scout finds out atticus is defending tom robinson in court
  • dolls

    jem and scout find wooden carved calls made to look like them
    the hole is cemented covered
    jem shows scout all the stuff hes found in the tree
  • arrest

    tom robinson is arrested
  • agreement

    atticus agrees to defend tom robinson in court
  • fight

    Francis calls atticus a "nigger lover"; scout doesnt know what it means but she fights him for it because she said it sounded rude
  • mad dog

    atticus shoots a mad dog that was down the street; scout and jem find out atticus has the best shot in town
  • move in

    Scout and Jem go to Cals church and Aunt Alexandra moves in
  • lynch mob

    Atticus and the kids stop a lynch mob at the jail before the trial
  • trail

    scout, dill, and jem sneak into the trial and watch from the balcony. the testimonys begin (mayla is extremely reactive, tom is calm). Dill starts to faint, goes into hallway with scout and they talk to Dolphus Raymond.
  • verdict

    calpurnia goes to the court to get the children but is allowed to come back ton hear the final verdict. tom is found guilty and sent to jail
  • lunching

    Aunt Alexandra has her lady friends over for lunch (she lets cal serve) and scout tries to act lady-like.
  • escape

    tom robinson is shot and killed trying to escape prison
  • Current Events

    Cecil Jacobs brings in a article about hilter for show and tell
  • Bob Ewell

    bob ewell is fired from his job and leaves a note at the judges door step, he also starts to stalk mrs. robinson
  • Pageant

    Scout gets a part in her school play as a ham
  • Attack

    bob ewell attacks jem and scout after scouts play; bob saves them and stabs bob; scout later escorts boo home