Finish working on and discuss rhet analysis/close reading passage on 99-100

What elements of Romanticism did you detect in chapter 16?



Discuss 15-16

Quiz tomorrow on content and some vocab from ch 10-16

scintillating
verdant
deleterious
vivacious
primeval

9/19 Finish working on and discuss rhet analysis/close reading passage on 99-100 Discuss 15-16 Discuss end (161-180) of Scarlet Letter Quiz tomorrow on content and some vocab from ch 10-16 scintillating verdant deleterious vivacious primeval	9/20 Mid-novel Quiz on chptrs 10-16 vocab, content (20 points) Hand out Scarlet Letter Paper Prompts HW: read ch 17-19 (129-146)	9/21 School Improvement Day 11:30 Dismissal HW: ch 20-21 (146-161)	9/22 Discuss 20-21 HW: ch 22-24	9/23 Discuss ch 22-24
9/26 Scarlet Letter Review Day Officially receive essay prompts... Review for quiz...ten vocab words you will have to know	9/27 1st half of novel Quiz on chptr 17-24 vocab and content (30 pts)	9/28 Late Start Day 2nd half of novel (ch 17-24) quiz rhet analysis passages (20 pnts)	9/29 Scarlet Letter 1st draft due Peer reviews	9/30 2nd draft of Scarlet Letter Due Peer Reviews
10/3 Next-to-final due Peer Reviews	10/4 Final Scarlet Letter Paper Due (150 pts) The Crucible	10/5 Late Start Day The Crucible	10/6 The Crucible	10/7 Post-Crucible in-class reflection paper (10 points)
10/10 COLUMBUS DAY	10/11 DISTRICT INSTITUTE DAY	10/12 TBD	10/11 The Crucible	10/14 END OF 1ST QUARTER Rhetoric

The world's law was no law for her mind. It was an age in which the human intellect, newly emancipated, had taken a more active and a wider range than for many centuries before. Men of the sword had overthrown nobles and kings. Men bolder than these had overthrown and rearranged—not actually, but within the sphere of theory, which was their most real abode—the whole system of ancient prejudice, wherewith was linked much of ancient principle. Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit. She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter.

What were these thoughts?  Why doesn’t he name them?

Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind with reference to the whole race of womanhood. Was existence worth accepting even to the happiest among them?

As a first step, the whole system of society is to be torn down and built up anew. Then the very nature of the opposite sex, or its long hereditary habit, which has become like nature, is to be essentially modified before woman can be allowed to assume what seems a fair and suitable position. Finally, all other difficulties being obviated, woman cannot take advantage of these preliminary reforms until she herself shall have undergone a still mightier change, in which, perhaps, the ethereal essence, wherein she has her truest life, will be found to have evaporated. A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way. If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish.

The scarlet letter had not done its office.