What to mistakes did Miss Caroline make on the first day of school?

Miss Caroline cannot accept that Scout already knows how to read and write, because it confounds the teaching formula that she has been taught to implement.

It made Miss Caroline angry because she wanted to teach Scout in her own way–the way she learned in college. What is the WPA, and why won’t Mr.

Scout’s first mistake is reading aloud, which is frowned upon by Miss Caroline. Scout is asked to read the alphabet, most of My First Reader, and quotations from The Mobile Register. (2.22) Miss Caroline tells Scout that her father should stop teaching her how to read because it will interfere with her reading.

When Miss Caroline offers to lend Walter Cunningham lunch money, Scout is punished for taking it upon herself to explain Miss Caroline’s faux pas to her. … That evening, Scout tells Atticus about her day, hoping that she won’t have to go back to school — after all, Burris Ewell doesn’t.

Miss Caroline is fresh from college and very young. She believes she is doing the right thing by following what she was taught in college. Unfortunately, she does not know how to work with students who might be poor or who might not have an educated family.

What do the errors Scout commits the first day have in common with one another? The error Scout commits all come from her father. First of all, because Atticus has taught her things that are far beyond her grade level, the rule-oriented Miss Caroline becomes agitated and demands her father not teach her anything else.

Blount was upset because Mrs. Caroline’s classroom was being to loud and Mrs. Blount’s class could not concentrate on their project. … They are both poor, Walter was very quiet in class but Burris is very loud mouthed.

Why was Scout’s first day at school a terrible disappointment to her? … Scout could already read and write well and her teacher was not very good; Scout is more experienced than the class already. Atticus tells her to keep going to school, but promises to read with her every night if she keeps it a secret.

Scout explained that the Cunningham’s were a poor family, and they never accepted donations, or charity, that they couldn’t pay back. Since they were poor, Walter knew he wouldn’t be able to pay back Miss Caroline Fisher.

What do you think of Miss Caroline Fisher as a teacher? … She makes not so good of a teacher because she seems very impatient and doesn’t want any of the children to become too smart for their grade, like Scout.

Miss Caroline is Scout’s first-grade teacher. … Miss Blount says the sixth grade cannot concentrate on their study of the pyramids because of the noise in the first-grade class. She is angry with Miss Caroline Fisher for allowing—and possibly contributing to—the chaos.

What assumptions do the students make about Miss Caroline? Scout and the other students held Miss Caroline with the same expectations that they would any other person in Maycomb. Because it is a small town, everyone in Maycomb knows everyone else, so nobody understood why Miss Caroline was confused.

What two mistakes did Miss Caroline make on the first day of school? Miss Caroline’s first mistake was to offer Walter Cunningham money; the Cunninghams don’t take anything they can’t pay back. Her second mistake was trying to tell Burris Ewell to go home and wash out his “cooties.”

Miss Caroline is definitely not a good teacher. Although she purports to know the latest techinques taught her in college, there is more to being a good teacher than just rote knowledge. Miss Caroline is haughty, prejudicial, and arrogant.

The fact that Miss Caroline is an outsider adds to her problems communicating with the class. She tries but is impatient and this results in a basic lack of communication between her and the children. Miss Caroline did not take into consideration that she might benefit from the advice of the children.

All of Scout’s mistakes on the first day of school seem to come from her penchant for defending the wrongfully accused.

Scout had the impression that she was being cheated out of something. She felt like her education would be ‘12 years of unrelieved boredom‘.

A Hot Steam is a ghost who cannot get to heaven, so it wanders about lonely roads. Jem says that if you are walking along a road and pass through a hot spot of air, it might be a Hot Steam, “an’ if you walk through him, when you die you’ll be one too, an’ you’ll go around at night suckin’ people’s breath—.”

Why does Judge Taylor not hold Mayella in contempt of court? She is poor and ignorant. … Mayella says she is afraid of Atticus.

Why does Scout’s ability to read and write annoy her teacher, Miss Caroline? Scout’s ability to read and write frustrate her teacher because she doesn’t know what to do with her. … Caroline expected to be teaching her class as a whole. She never thought about the individuality of the students she’d be educating.

Atticus told Scout that their ancestor, Simon Finch, left Cornwall, England to escape religious persecution and immigrated to America where he settled in Mobile, Alabama. He then bought three slaves and traveled forty miles up the Alabama River.

The many people passing the Finch household are on their way to the courthouse for the Tom Robinson trial. The white citizens of Maycomb are going to witness the “carnival” of a black man tried and convicted for rape. Maycomb’s black citizens are attending for the more serious reason of supporting one of their own.

What does Walter do at lunch at the Finches that shocks Scout? He pours maple syrup all over his plate of meat and vegetables.

When Scout attempts to explain these circumstances, however, Miss Caroline fails to understand and grows very frustrated. She tells Scout she is starting the year on the wrong foot, and she slaps Scout’s hand with a ruler. How does Scout “start off on the wrong foot” and what is her punishment?

8 Miss Caroline went to her desk and opened her purse. “Here’s a quarter,” she said to Walter. “Go and eat downtown today. You can pay me back tomorrow.”

That was until her teacher, Miss Caroline, hit her with a ruler on her hand before the first morning was over. Miss Caroline didn’t like that Scout was literate and told her to tell Atticus not to teach her anymore. … When Scout made that clear Miss Caroline got mad and hit Scout on the hand again.

Scout’s teacher was disciplinary, a little rude, and sensitive. What events lead to the conflict between Scout and Miss Caroline? Miss Caroline asked Scout to read the alphabet and two other items. How does Scout learn to read and write?

Miss Caroline, Scout’s teacher, is an outsider in the community for she is new and doesn’t know the people in Maycomb. She is from the North, and even the children immediately have prejudices against her, for she comes from a town enemy to the south in the civil war.

Miss Caroline cannot see that her classroom activities are boring the children and does not facilitate Scout’s advanced abilities. She is also unfamiliar with her students, lacks a certain amount of sympathy, and has ineffective classroom-management skills.

Scout’s teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, is new to teaching, new to Maycomb, and mortified that Scout already knows how to read and write. When Miss Caroline offers to lend Walter Cunningham lunch money, Scout is punished for taking it upon herself to explain Miss Caroline’s faux pas to her.

Mrs. Blount is the sixth grade teacher at the school that Jem and Scout attend. Miss Caroline is the first grade teacher. She is new at the school and has new ideas about education.

Chapter 2. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. Scout compares Miss Caroline, her young, enthusiastic teacher, to a peppermint candy because she wears a red-and-white striped dress and red nail polish and has red hair.

Miss Caroline’s reason for asking Burris Ewell to leave class was his having head lice (kids called them “cooties”). Burris was not upset by his infestation of lice and simply killed the creatures as they revealed themself.

Jem then attempts to explain that Miss Caroline is introducing a new way of teaching called the Dewey Decimal System.

What happened to Miss maudie’s house? What was her reaction? It burnt down, and she didn’t care and was actually kind of happy because she hated being indoors so much, she just liked her garden.

How does Scout solve her problem with Walter Cunningham? By “pounding” him – beating him up. How does Jem solve Scout’s problem with Walter Cunningham? Jem invites Walter to eat dinner with them at their house.