Toe the Line Anticipation Activity

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1 Toe the Line Anticipation Activity How it works: Agree: move to right side of the room Disagree: stand on the left side of the room You CANNOT straddle the line or be in between. Make a decision! *You may be asked to explain your position (or even argue for the other side)

2 "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. Have you ever judged another person before attempting to look at things from their point of view?

3 Everyone is born with an equal opportunity to be successful in life.

4 All people are truly treated as if they are innocent until proven guilty in the American court system.

5 Citizens should be able to take the law into their own hands when it fails.

6 Most people are a combination of both good and evil drives, desires, and actions.

7 It is never okay to kill another innocent living creature.

8 Doesn t make it right, said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee. You can t just convict a man on evidence like that you can t. You couldn t, but they could and did. The older you grow the more of it you ll see. The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don t you forget it whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, or how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

9 "Background doesn't mean Old Family," said Jem. "I think it's how long your family's been readin' and writin', We've just been readin' and writin' longer'n they have. No, everybody s gotta learn, nobody s born knowin. That Walter s as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin s wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there s just one kind of folks. Folks. That s what I thought, too. he said at least, when I was your age. If there s just one kind of folks, why can t they get along with each other? If they re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I m beginning to understand something. I think I m beginning to understand why Boo Radley s stayed shut up in the house all this time it s because he wants to stay inside.

10 I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting a strange little drama of their own invention. It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Dubose s.... Fall, and his children trotted to and fro around the corner, the day s woes and triumphs on their faces. They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Winter, and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog. Summer, and he watched his children s hearts break. Autumn again, and Boo s children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.