How To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1-8

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It is now September and Dill returns to Meridian. Scout prepares for for her first time at school. When Scout gets to school, her teacher is mad at her for knowing how to read and, write in cursive instead of in print. Scout tells Jem about this during recess. Jem dismissed this as Miss Caroline Fisher trying a new teaching method. After recess, Scout gets into arguments with Miss C. Fisher. Miss Caroline is concerned with Walter Cunningham because, he has not brought a lunch. She even offers him a quarter to buy lunch, but he declines as he would not be able to pay her back. Scout interrupts and tries to introduce Walter’s circumstances to Miss C. Fisher. However, this results in Scout getting slapped on the hand with

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