Wednesday, September 24, 2014

September 24, 2014 The Scarlet Letter

Need to take AP Reading Quiz
9th period:
TJ, Anisa, Andrew, Kiera, Carolyn and David

HW: Read chapter 21 and write inferential discussion questions from two of the last three chapters (19, 20, 21). 


Near the beginning of chapter 19, Hester, Dimmesdale and Pearl have met in the forest.  After watching Pearl play and adorn herself with flowers, they remark on her spritely character. "Be the foregone evil what it might, how could they doubt that their earthly lives and future destinies were conjoined, when they beheld at once the material union, and the spiritual idea, in whom they met, and were to dwell immortally together?" (142)

10th period: Kiera
Activity 1
  • Review your annotations for chapters 19-20. Select one sentence from each of the chapters which you think is most significant or revealing.
  • Write a 3-5 sentence explanation as to why the sentence you selected would be most useful if you had to write a one page essay about the novel  and you could only use one quoted passage from this section of the novel as evidence. What would this sentence help you prove in your essay? Why would you make it your “#1 draft pick”?

Engaged Listening/Note-taking Mini-Lesson
ØAs we have our discussion today, make note of two or three opinions/interpretations expressed by your classmates that you find interesting or that give you a deeper understanding of the novel. Consider the “generic themes” at play in the ideas expressed by your classmates.

ØYou will write a two to three sentence discussion summation that should grow out of the notes you take and which will be submitted at the end of class today. 

Write a concise but precise three to four  sentence analysis of a key passage from the homework reading—pages 136-161 of The Scarlet Letter–that can be connected with a key detail or description from an earlier section of the novel.
In short, you will synthesize key excerpts from different parts of the text to build a coherent and compelling claim about a central character, or theme, or motif in Hawthorne’s novel.

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