Scarlet Letter ch 1-2 and God in America

God in America

By 7am tomorrow morning, August 31, complete the following: 

Read and annotate chapters III-IV

On the turnitin.com DISCUSSION page, write and post two questions (read the directions provided on the turnitin assignment for chapters III-IV) 

Also, respond to another student's question for chapters III-IV.  Just pick and respond to one of the two questions written by another student.

8/31:  Thursday: Group Guidance: Check in quickly with me and then report to Room 140.  If you are late for any reason, go straight to Room 140.

9/01:  For Friday, Sept 1: Read and annotate chapters V-VI. 
Post and respond to one question prior to 7am on September 1.

Turnitin directions
Please write one interpretive question and one a connection question, respectively, for chapters  3-4.  One of the two questions should be inspired by a question in chapter 3 and the  other question should be inspired by a question in chapter 4.

When a reader asks an interpretive question (aka, inferential questions) they are doing so in the hope that a discussion of it will clarify or deepen their understanding of that passage, and by extension, the larger text.  They seek to better understand what the author was trying to convey, no  matter how subtly. 

One interpretive example...
On p. 79, as Josiah and Tayo are trying to round up the cattle that had wandered off, it says the cattle "had little regards for fences". Later, on p. 80, Tayo says, "It took almost the whole day to round them up because they were so wild." What do you think the wild, wandering cows could represent in the story? 

A connection question uses some theme or idea explored in the text in order to ask a question that goes beyond the text, perhaps connecting the issues to the real world or another text.  For example:


On the opening page of The Scarlet Letter, the narrator alludes to the Puritan desire to  form a "Utopia of human virtue and happiness" (33).  What are the inherent virtues and pitfalls of societies that seek perfection?  What other examples are there in the real world, in history, of attempts to create Utopian societies? What went right and what went wrong with those attempts? Are Utopias possible on a smaller scales, perhaps within an individual church or a commune?

8/30 Class disc of ch I-II Read chapters III-IV for tomorrow and post & respond to turnitin.com disc quest by end of day 08/31

8/31 Jr. Group Guidance Attendance then to 140 Read  ch V-VI for Friday

9/1 SL Ch V-VI (53-68) discussion Disc Self -Assess HW: SL reading and questions for 9/5