Graphic Organizer for Tkm Body Paragraph #1: Partial Model

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR TKM BODY PARAGRAPH #1: PARTIAL MODEL

Topic Sentence / One major negative quality of Maycomb’s society is its ancient and rampant racism.
One bad characteristic about Maycombis its extensive racism.
Definition Sentence / According to Dictionary.com, the word racism is defined as “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.”
Set up First Quotation
What’s going on? When the quotation is given. / When Scout and her family go to Finch Landing for Christmas, she and her cousin, Francis, get into an argument because Francis calls her father names.
Deliver Quotation #1 / Francis says, “’f;sldkfaskdfh;aslkdfas;lkhdf’” (83).
Explain how Quotation #1—specifically—supports the topic sentence. / The use of the epithet n***** clearly demonstrates prejudice because it is a degrading term that recalls the horrors of slavery.
Transition + Set up Second Quotation / In addition, racial antagonism occurs when Cecil Jacobs tries to start an argument with Scout at school.
Deliver Quotation #2 / Cecil says, “’My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that n***** ought to hang from the water tank’” (76).
Explain Quotation #2 / Once again, someone from Maycomb uses the racial slur, n*****, and once again, the term is used derisively. In this town, the term is used to put down someone else, whether that person is black or white.
Transition + Set up Third Quotation / Furthermore, during the trial Mayella Ewell, under oath, insists that Tom Robinson raped her.
Deliver Quotation #3 / She says, ‘” . . . [T]hat n***** yonder took advantage of me, and if you fine, fancy gentlemen don’t want to do nothing about it, then you’re all yellow, stinkin’ cowards!’” (188).
Explain Quotation #3 / Even though she uses the racial epithet here, what is perhaps worse is her insistence that an innocent black man has raped her.
Conclusion Sentence / Her cousin’s use of a racial slur, Cecil Jacob’s use of the same slur, and Mayella Ewell’s lie about Tom Robinson raping her are just some of the many examples of racism that fill the novel.