Scarlet Letter ch 1-4 Content Quiz
Scarlet Letter ch 1-4 Vocab quiz

Class discussion of SL chapters 1-4

HW: Read ch 5 & 6 (53-68) and write two discussion questions for Tuesday, (9/6)

5^th period ch 3-4 inf questions

Scarlet Letter Calendar 2016-17 (subject to change in schedule and assignments)

8/29 Scarlet Letter Scarlet Letter Graffiti # 2 What do you know, or what have you heard, about the Puritans? What is their reputation? What associations does the word “Puritan” have for you?	8/30 Scarlet Letter View minutes 12:30 to 32:30 in God in America http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/ Discuss and write about the Puritans HW: Read Scarlet Letter ch 1-2 (33-41)	8/31 Late Start Day Discuss SL 33 -41 HW: Read SL ch 3-4 (41-53) & write two inferential questions (2 points)	9/1 Scarlet Letter Small group discussions on  questions for ch 3&4 Select best questions for tomorrow’s whole class talk Handout chapter 1-4 vocab HW:  10 quest quiz on vocab words 1-15 (10 points) 10 quest quiz on content ch 1-4 (10 points)	9/2 Scarlet Letter Quiz on ch 1-4 vocab (10 points) and content (10 pnts Discuss SL (ch 3-4) 41-53 (including close reading of 41-44?) HW: Read ch 5 & 6 (53-68) and write two discussion questions for Tuesday, (9/6)
9/5 LABOR DAY	9/6 Scarlet Letter Discuss ch 5-6 Rhetorical Terms And vocab for opening chapters Romanticism PPT HW: read SL ch 7-8 (68-80) for Tuesday	9/7 Scarlet Letter Ch 5-6 (33-68) quiz (20 points) Discuss SL ch 7-8 Review Romanticism in relation to emerging themes in chapters 1-8 Read ch 9-10 (80-95)	9/8 S.C. OPEN HOUSE Scarlet Letter Discuss ch 9-10 And/or reading day HW: Read ch 11-14 (95-120) Quiz on ch 7-10 (20 pnts)	9/9 Scarlet Letter Group Guidance
9/12 Review of rhetorical terms and moves of Hawthorne w/close reading passage Discuss 11-14 Close reading of the chapter 11, Interior of the Heart, passage (99-100) Chaptr 9-14 vocab review	9/13 Mid-novel Quiz on chptrs 9-14 vocab, content, and rhet analysis (50 points) What themes, Romantic and otherwise, do you see? What are the essential questions? What in the Scarlet Letter is relevant to us in 2016? HW: read ch 15-16 (121-129)	9/14 Late Start Day Review chptr 9-14 quiz Discuss 15-16 HW: ch 17-19 (129-146)	9/15 N.C. OPEN HOUSE Scarlet Letter Ch 15-16 close reading quiz (12 points) Discuss ch 17-19 129-146 Ch 17-19 close reading quiz (8 points) HW: Read 20-21(146-161)	9/16 Scarlet Letter Discuss ch 20-21 HW: Finish reading The Scarlet Letter (ch 21-24) 161-180
9/19 Discuss end (161-180) of Scarlet Letter Hand out Scarlet Letter Paper Prompts	9/20 2nd half of novel (ch 15-24) quiz rhet analysis passages (20 pnts)	9/21 School Improvement Day 11:30 Dismissal 2nd half of novel Quiz on chptr 15-24 vocab and content (30 pts)	9/22 TBD	9/23 Work on Scarlet Letter Paper First Drafts
9/26 Scarlet Letter Scarlet Letter 1st draft due (2 points) Peer Reviews	9/27 Scarlet Letter 2nd draft due (2 points) Peer Reviews	9/28 Late Start Day Next-to-final due Peer Reviews	9/29 Final Scarlet Letter Paper Due(100 pts)	9/30 Final Scarlet Letter Paper Due TBD
10/3 The Crucible	10/4 The Crucible	10/5 Late Start Day The Crucible	10/6 Discuss Crucible and today’s “witches” and Scarlet Letter	10/7 Post-Crucible in-class reflection paper (10 points)
10/10 COLUMBUS DAY	10/11 DISTRICT INSTITUTE DAY	10/12 Rhetoric	10/13 Rhetoric	10/14 END OF 1ST QUARTER Rhetoric

Scarlet Letter ch 1-4 Content Quiz
Scarlet Letter ch 1-4 Vocab quiz

Class discussion of SL chapters 1-4

HW: Read ch 5 & 6 (53-68) and write two discussion questions for Tuesday, (9/6)

5^th period ch 3-4 inf questions

Scarlet Letter Calendar 2016-17 (subject to change in schedule and assignments)

8/29 Scarlet Letter Scarlet Letter Graffiti # 2 What do you know, or what have you heard, about the Puritans? What is their reputation? What associations does the word “Puritan” have for you?	8/30 Scarlet Letter View minutes 12:30 to 32:30 in God in America http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/ Discuss and write about the Puritans HW: Read Scarlet Letter ch 1-2 (33-41)	8/31 Late Start Day Discuss SL 33 -41 HW: Read SL ch 3-4 (41-53) & write two inferential questions (2 points)	9/1 Scarlet Letter Small group discussions on  questions for ch 3&4 Select best questions for tomorrow’s whole class talk Handout chapter 1-4 vocab HW:  10 quest quiz on vocab words 1-15 (10 points) 10 quest quiz on content ch 1-4 (10 points)	9/2 Scarlet Letter Quiz on ch 1-4 vocab (10 points) and content (10 pnts Discuss SL (ch 3-4) 41-53 (including close reading of 41-44?) HW: Read ch 5 & 6 (53-68) and write two discussion questions for Tuesday, (9/6)
9/5 LABOR DAY	9/6 Scarlet Letter Discuss ch 5-6 Rhetorical Terms And vocab for opening chapters Romanticism PPT HW: read SL ch 7-8 (68-80) for Tuesday	9/7 Scarlet Letter Ch 5-6 (33-68) quiz (20 points) Discuss SL ch 7-8 Review Romanticism in relation to emerging themes in chapters 1-8 Read ch 9-10 (80-95)	9/8 S.C. OPEN HOUSE Scarlet Letter Discuss ch 9-10 And/or reading day HW: Read ch 11-14 (95-120) Quiz on ch 7-10 (20 pnts)	9/9 Scarlet Letter Group Guidance
9/12 Review of rhetorical terms and moves of Hawthorne w/close reading passage Discuss 11-14 Close reading of the chapter 11, Interior of the Heart, passage (99-100) Chaptr 9-14 vocab review	9/13 Mid-novel Quiz on chptrs 9-14 vocab, content, and rhet analysis (50 points) What themes, Romantic and otherwise, do you see? What are the essential questions? What in the Scarlet Letter is relevant to us in 2016? HW: read ch 15-16 (121-129)	9/14 Late Start Day Review chptr 9-14 quiz Discuss 15-16 HW: ch 17-19 (129-146)	9/15 N.C. OPEN HOUSE Scarlet Letter Ch 15-16 close reading quiz (12 points) Discuss ch 17-19 129-146 Ch 17-19 close reading quiz (8 points) HW: Read 20-21(146-161)	9/16 Scarlet Letter Discuss ch 20-21 HW: Finish reading The Scarlet Letter (ch 21-24) 161-180
9/19 Discuss end (161-180) of Scarlet Letter Hand out Scarlet Letter Paper Prompts	9/20 2nd half of novel (ch 15-24) quiz rhet analysis passages (20 pnts)	9/21 School Improvement Day 11:30 Dismissal 2nd half of novel Quiz on chptr 15-24 vocab and content (30 pts)	9/22 TBD	9/23 Work on Scarlet Letter Paper First Drafts
9/26 Scarlet Letter Scarlet Letter 1st draft due (2 points) Peer Reviews	9/27 Scarlet Letter 2nd draft due (2 points) Peer Reviews	9/28 Late Start Day Next-to-final due Peer Reviews	9/29 Final Scarlet Letter Paper Due(100 pts)	9/30 Final Scarlet Letter Paper Due TBD
10/3 The Crucible	10/4 The Crucible	10/5 Late Start Day The Crucible	10/6 Discuss Crucible and today’s “witches” and Scarlet Letter	10/7 Post-Crucible in-class reflection paper (10 points)
10/10 COLUMBUS DAY	10/11 DISTRICT INSTITUTE DAY	10/12 Rhetoric	10/13 Rhetoric	10/14 END OF 1ST QUARTER Rhetoric

Pick up a vocabulary list for chapters 1-4.  I will only quiz you on the first 15 words on the list (because I am a softy)

Hopefully you have been looking up challenging words as you have read, so these will not all be new to you.  If they are all new, study extra hard.


Please pick up a piece of construction paper, fold it over three times (tri-fold) so that it will stand stably on your desk.  Write your first name in fairly large letters (large enough to be seen from across the room) in dark pen or marker.  Do not throw these out! We will use them tomorrow and other days in the first quarter.

Take out your inferential questions.
For those of you who might not have written fully developed inferential questions last night, please do not do them now. But, please write them for tomorrow's discussion.  If you do this, I will redeem your lost points tomorrow.

I will place you in groups of four.  

You will take 25 minutes to thoughtfully discuss one question from each person in your group (about 5-6 minutes per question).

Remember good listening and discussion habits!

Strive to always use some textual evidence (guiding people to page and pargraph) to support  your response, even if your response relies largely on inference. We are trying to develop close reading habits, paying attention to BOTH the text (authorial intent) and your interpretations (reader response) of the text.

Towards the end of class, we will perhaps have a fish bowl discussion, involving me and one small group.

Please hand in your questions at the end of class...

HW: Two chapter 1-4 quizzes for tomorrow.  Study the vocab list and review chapters 1-4.  Vocab quiz tomorrow...10 questions/10 points

Reading Quiz: 10 questions for 10 points

What questions were raised for you in Chapter 1? 
In chapter 2?  What was confusing?

Could there be any figurative or symbolic significance to the physical setting described below? If so, what?

The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.

What does the below passage suggest about the narrator's possible purpose in telling this story? What about with whom his sympathies are likely to lie?

This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it,--or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson, as she entered the prison-door,--we shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.


What characters did you meet in each chapter? What were your impressions of them?

What do you notice about the cultural setting?

What about the physical setting?

What vocabulary words that you find challenging?

Are there places where you feel the text invites you to read for figurative/symbolic meaning? Where?  Why?

What do you think of the narrator? What are your initial impressions? How would you describe him? What makes him trustworthy or not?  Do you think he is essentially Hawthorne or a creation of Hawthorne's? Why?

Handout chapter 1-4 vocab

HW: Read SL ch 3-4 (41-53)

Write two text-based discussion questions (inferential) for tomorrow