As the characters more fully develop, we are beginning to characterize their traits.We first looked at Scout's tendency to fight and her rash temper. Bobby located and discussed textual evidence supporting this conclusion. We then contrasted Scout and Atticus by examining why Atticus, in the Deep South of the 1930s, agrees to represent an African -American accused of raping a white woman. Atticus' display of moral courage resonates throughout the rest of the novel, and we examined Atticus as a person who stands up against societal norms to do what is right, in great part to set an example for his children. We then looked at Bobby's written homework on the symbolism of the mockingbird. Bobby 's work was very perceptive and impressive in both recognizing the mockingbird as a symbol of beauty and innocence and then tying that analysis to the innocence of the characters, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. For homework, I assigned reading chapter 11 and rewriting a few sentences in the written paragraph .