AP-style close reading quiz...(25 minutes)

Small group discussion

Respond to one of the two:

1)      Question: Chapter 15 emphasizes "Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter" (123). How does Pearl seem to be somewhat aware of the meaning of the scarlet letter? What does she seem to think of it? Why is highlighting her intuitiveness and curiosity important to the story? 

2)      Discussion Question: At the end of chapter XVIII, it is noted about Pearl's interaction with the nature, which acts as a character, that "the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child" (140). What idea might Hawthorne be trying to convey by exploring Pearl's intimate interaction with the natural world? How might this relate to Pearl's representation of American Romanticism?

For Monday...

Quiz on chapters 9-13 vocab (10 questions for 10 points)

Quiz on content, chapters 10-18 (8 questions for 16 points)

9/18 SL Reading Day Post disc questions

9/19 SL XIX-XX (141 -154) discussion

9/20 Late Start Day SL Reading Day

9/21 Discuss SL XXI-XXIV (155-180)

9/22 SL End of Book Quiz