NEED HELP ASAP! To Kill a Mockingbird Directions: Using the chart below, create a list of detailed notes from the exposition in Chapters One and
Two. You may use direct quotes from the text or your own words based upon your reading. Be sure to
include a minimum of 5 observations for each category. You may use a separate piece of paper if needed. A
few examples have been done for you.
Finch Family History
Ex. Simon Finch, the first Finch in Maycomb, was a “fur-trapping apothecary from England who made his fortune practicing medicine.”

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Customs and Traditions of Maycomb
Ex. “Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’ clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft white teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”

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Details of the Setting (Including time period, location, etc.)
Ex. “His mother...had entered him into a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it.”

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Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.