2nd Quarter Journals
Journal 1What are some issues
contemporary society must face?
**Remember to continue writing at least ½
a page for journals (to the middle hole on
the notebook paper)!**
Journal 2
If you could wake up tomorrow
with an ability to do something,
what would it be?
In your groups…
• Create a list of the ten most important
laws/rules of society (written or just
understood). What ten rules, if we follow them,
will keep us out of trouble?
• What are some of the things that you learned
yesterday in your research of the Puritan lifestyle?
• What rules would we have to follow in a Puritan
society?
• What are the possible punishments for breaking the
rules of society today?
• In Puritan times?
Journal 3
Why doesn’t Hester run away from the
Puritan settlement? If you were in her
situation, would you have run away?
Why or why not?
The Scarlet
Letter
Pop Quiz
Chapters 1-6
1. What did Hester promise to Roger
Chillingworth in the prison?
2. Where do Hester and her baby go after she is
released from prison?
3. What does Hester do to earn money to support
herself and Pearl?
4. How do the poor people in the settlement treat
Hester when she begins making clothes for
them?
5. What strange thing is Pearl obsessed with?
Journal 4
What is one of your worst
nightmares?
Journal 5
What is your opinion of Roger
Chillingworth at this point in the
novel? Why do you feel this way
about him? Has your opinion
changed since the beginning of
the novel?
Journal 6
If you could choose anywhere in
the world to live, where would it
be?
2nd Quarter Journals
Journal 1What are some issues
contemporary society must face?
**Remember to continue writing at least ½
a page for journals (to the middle hole on
the notebook paper)!**
Journal 2
If you could wake up tomorrow
with an ability to do something,
what would it be?
In your groups…
• Create a list of the ten most important
laws/rules of society (written or just
understood). What ten rules, if we follow them,
will keep us out of trouble?
• What are some of the things that you learned
yesterday in your research of the Puritan lifestyle?
• What rules would we have to follow in a Puritan
society?
• What are the possible punishments for breaking the
rules of society today?
• In Puritan times?
Journal 3
Why doesn’t Hester run away from the
Puritan settlement? If you were in her
situation, would you have run away?
Why or why not?
The Scarlet
Letter
Pop Quiz
Chapters 1-6
1. What did Hester promise to Roger
Chillingworth in the prison?
2. Where do Hester and her baby go after she is
released from prison?
3. What does Hester do to earn money to support
herself and Pearl?
4. How do the poor people in the settlement treat
Hester when she begins making clothes for
them?
5. What strange thing is Pearl obsessed with?
Journal 4
What is one of your worst
nightmares?
Journal 5
What is your opinion of Roger
Chillingworth at this point in the
novel? Why do you feel this way
about him? Has your opinion
changed since the beginning of
the novel?
Journal 6
Freewrite
Journal 7
The way that the society in which Hester lives
defines her identity in a different way than
she defines herself.
How does the Puritan society’s definition of
Hester’s identity
(who she is as a person; her worth) differ from
her own? Defend your answer with details
from the text.
Journal 8
Anticipating the end of the novel
(which you will Monday night), how do
you think the novel will end,
given what you read last night in
Chapters 18-20?
Journal 9
Which symbol in the book do you
find most interesting?
Journal 10
What was your reaction to the end
of The Scarlet Letter? Why did
you feel this way? Was the
ending close to what you
predicted two journals ago?
Journal 11
If society gave you a “scarlet
letter” what would it be?
Journal 12
What is the best decision you
have ever made in your life?
Why do you pick this decision
above the rest?
2nd Quarter Journals
Journal 1What are some issues
contemporary society must face?
**Remember to continue writing at least ½
a page for journals (to the middle hole on
the notebook paper)!**
Journal 2
If you could wake up tomorrow
with an ability to do something,
what would it be?
In your groups…
• Create a list of the ten most important
laws/rules of society (written or just
understood). What ten rules, if we follow them,
will keep us out of trouble?
• What are some of the things that you learned
yesterday in your research of the Puritan lifestyle?
• What rules would we have to follow in a Puritan
society?
• What are the possible punishments for breaking the
rules of society today?
• In Puritan times?
Journal 3
Why doesn’t Hester run away from the
Puritan settlement? If you were in her
situation, would you have run away?
Why or why not?
The Scarlet
Letter
Pop Quiz
Chapters 1-6
1. What did Hester promise to Roger
Chillingworth in the prison?
2. Where do Hester and her baby go after she is
released from prison?
3. What does Hester do to earn money to support
herself and Pearl?
4. How do the poor people in the settlement treat
Hester when she begins making clothes for
them?
5. What strange thing is Pearl obsessed with?
Journal 4
What is one of your worst
nightmares?
Journal 5
What is your opinion of Roger
Chillingworth at this point in the
novel? Why do you feel this way
about him? Has your opinion
changed since the beginning of
the novel?
Journal 6
Freewrite
Journal 7
The way that the society in which Hester lives
defines her identity in a different way than
she defines herself.
How does the Puritan society’s definition of
Hester’s identity
(who she is as a person; her worth) differ from
her own? Defend your answer with details
from the text.
Journal 8
Anticipating the end of the novel
(which you will Monday night), how do
you think the novel will end,
given what you read last night in
Chapters 18-20?
Journal 9
Which symbol in the book do you
find most interesting?
Journal 10
What was your reaction to the end
of The Scarlet Letter? Why did
you feel this way? Was the
ending close to what you
predicted two journals ago?
Journal 11
If society gave you a “scarlet
letter” what would it be?
Journal 12
What is the best decision you
have ever made in your life?
Why do you pick this decision
above the rest?
Journal 13
Write about one of your most
agonizingly embarrassing
moments.
Journal 14
Write about one of your
favorite holiday childhood
memories.
Journal 15
“Beauty is only skin deep,” the cliché
claims. If you had to choose between
beauty and brains, which would you
pick? Which do you think would get you
further in life? Which do you think
would make you happier?
Journal 16
Name one thing that you fear.
How has this fear affected
your life?
Journal 17
Share one exciting or
interesting thing you did
over break and explain it in
detail.
Journal 18
If you could read the mind of
someone famous, who
would it be? Why would
you pick this person?
Journal 19
If you could do any job in the
world for one day, what
would it be? Why would
you choose this job?
Journal 20
Describe a perfect day—not the one
you’d have if you were rich and
famous, but the one you could
have this Saturday or Tuesday.
What day of the week would your
perfect day fall on? What would
you do, see, eat, read, watch?
Journal 21
If you could “unknow” one
thing you know, what would
it be? Why?