Chapter naming
Chapter 2 - School.
There are two reasons why I named this chapter "School and Education".
Reason 1:
Scout goes "to school for the first time" (Pg 21) and she realises that "'school's different'" from home. Jem is little ashamed of his sister and gives her clear instructions not to "embarrass him" (Pg 22) or "tag along behind him" (Pg 22).
Reason 2:
Scout gets scolded and punished on her first day of school by her teacher, Miss Fisher, when she tries to explain that Walter Cunningham comes from a poor family who does not accept charity. Miss Fisher is an "outsider" as she comes from a town a few milesaway from Maycomb, and this chapter emphasises the Maycomb distrust of people not from the district. This chapter also criticises the education system, where the talk is only about new methods and the children are made to conform to the expectations of the teachers.
Perhaps you can elaborate on the fact that Scout saw a new world, that before she was confined in that play area, that she was in Atticus' protection, and that now that she was in school, she saw the outside world and finally saw prejudice and other themes that was presented in Part 2.
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