To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 5 Summary

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The name of chapter five is call bad boy, like the name of the book. Chapter five talk about Walter going to school and he meets a teacher call Mrs. Conway. On the first day of school the teacher call out kids and Walter was one of them and he hater reading out loud. On page43 He had to read to the class and a kid was talking about and Walter punch that kid in his face. Walter wants to play a sport but he did not act right in class. He wants to play baseball because he like that sport. Walter was alone in class and Mrs. Conway give him a book call East o’ the sun and west o’. Want he read that he like it an ask the teacher can he take it home that day on he like to read.

These words were spoken to Walter Dean Myers by a high school teacher,

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