Here are nine events mentioned in the first 13 paragraphs of To Kill a Mockingbird, written in the order in which they appear in the text. But in what order did they really happen? Work with your classmates to number the events chronologically. Two of the events are referenced in the Historical Background feature earlier in this activity. ___ Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

___ Dill gave Scout and Jem the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

___ In England, Simon Finch was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists.

___ Simon Finch worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.

__There was a disturbance between the North and the South

___ Atticus Finch went to Montgomery to read law.

___ Atticus Finch returned to Maycomb and began his law practice.

___ Maycomb County (and the United States) had recently been told that it had “nothing to fear but fear itself.”

___ Scout and Jem's mother died