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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1 Summary
Dill leaves Maycomb to return to his house in Meridian. Scout, meanwhile, gets ready to go to school for the first time, something she has been waiting for, for a long time. Once she is finally at school, however, she finds that her teacher Miss Caroline, doesn’t know how to deal with children. When Miss Caroline concludes that Atticus must have taught Scout how to read, she gets angry and makes Scout feel guilty for being educated. At recess, Scout complains to Jem, but Jem says that Miss Caroline is just trying out a new method of teaching called the Dewey-Decimal System. Miss Caroline and Scout don’t get along in the afternoon as well. Walter Cunningham, a boy in Scout’s class, has not brought lunch. Miss Caroline offers him a quarter to

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