Bobby continues to offer perceptive comments on the reading, including recognizing the racial metaphor implicit in Scout and Jem's covering the black "mud" snowman with white snow. We also placed in the notebook additional notes on Boo Radley's loneliness and outreach to the children based on Bobby's observations. Thematically, we reviewed Atticus as the story's hero and "truth teller" and began to make a list of Atticus' observations about life and discussed how these observations form the thematic foundations for the novel. Bobby practiced rewording /writing the themes into his own words. Last, we reviewed the vocabulary homework and placed some of the words into sentences for context. For homework due on Tuesday, I assigned reading the next two chapters and to complete writing a paragraph on the symbolic significance of the mockingbird.