As the author's tone is often humorous, we first studied vocabulary words and then located the words within the novel. We examined the author's use of these words as ironic sarcasm . I emphasized that through humor , the author is illustrating the childhood innocence of Scout at this early stage of the novel. We then examined Bobby's writing assignment from last week .We addressed word choice , punctuation, and the use of MLA citations. Bobby raised some interesting questions as to whether the author faced societal backlash due to the novel's derogatory references to African -Americans, and we reviewed how the author's aim was to depict and to memorialize real life in a small southern town in the 1930s. For homework ,I assigned reading chapter 8 and defining the vocabulary words for chapters 8 and 9.