The Scarlet Letter Reading Schedule
Instructions: On the due dates specified below you will take a quiz over the assigned reading. On that
same day the students who were assigned the literary devices for those chapters will share their findings
with the class.
Due Date
11/7/12
11/14/12
11/20/12
11/28/12
12/5
12/12
Chapters
Ch.1&2
Ch.3&4
Ch.5&6
Ch.7&8
Ch.9&10
Ch.11&12
Motif
Benningfield
Cross
Haliday
Hollingsworth
Meadows
Mullican
Symbol
Booher
Downey
Handy
Litchfield
Mehegan
Thomas
Characterization
Clark
Evans
Hinton
Long
Moran
Extra Credit
Syntax
Colvin
Gilpin
Holland
McCubbin
Morgan
Extra Credit
Ch.13&14
Ch.15&16
Ch.17&18
Ch.19&20
Ch.21&22
Ch.23&24
Thomas
Mehegan
Litchfield
Handy
Downey
Booher
Mullican
Meadows
Hollingsworth
Haliday
Cross
Benningfield
Morgan
McCubbin
Holland
Gilpin
Colvin
Extra Credit
Moran
Long
Hinton
Evans
Clark
Extra Credit
MOTIF: a recurring subject, image, or idea that helps reinforce a theme in a literary work. Examples
from The Scarlet Letter include light vs. darkness and wilderness vs. civilization.
SYMBOL (SYMBOLISM): Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract
ideas or concepts.
CHARACTERIZATION: The process by which Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals
the personality of a character. Characterization is revealed through direct characterization and indirect
characterization. With direct characterization the author tells the audience what the personality of the
character is. With indirect characterization the author reveals the personality of a character through
descriptions of the characters speech, thoughts, appearance, actions, and the way others perceive
them.
SYNTAX: Syntax is sentence structure, or the author’s use of punctuation and word order to convey
meaning and tone. Parallel syntactical structure, anaphora, anadiplosis, ellipses, asyndeton,
polysyndeton, ect. are all elements of syntax.
The Scarlet Letter Reading Requirements
 You must read all 24 chapters of The Scarlet Letter.
 Vocabulary List: You must keep a running list of vocabulary words and their definitions
that you encounter in the book as you read. You will turn in to me a typed or hand
written list of the words and their definitions when we have finished reading the book.
You must have at least 4 words per chapter for a total of at least 96 words on your list.
You will likely run in to more than this number of words that you do not know.
 On your assigned day you must turn in at least a page of notes about your assigned
Literary Device. Your notes page should include at least 4 examples of that device, the
page number where the example is from, and an explanation of the example. We will
discuss in class further what this notes page should look like.
 You will take a QUIZ on the day that each reading assignment is due.
 You can get Extra Credit by completing a notes page for any or all of the four days
marked as extra credit on the reading calendar.
 After we have finished reading The Scarlet Letter we will have a major summative
assessment over the novel, the major literary devices used, and your understanding of
them.