Tuesday: September 6th 2011
Welcome Back!
Copy Vocabulary
that we are using
Essential Question: How do the complications of the today:
novel add to the rising action of the novel?
JOURNAL
TOPIC
TODAY:
Define the
Vocabulary
Terms: How
do they
apply to the
novel?
Chapter 17-18: Read in class:
Review important notes
Begin working on study guide,
Projected Due date –
Wednesday September 14th
Unit Test for the book:
September 14th also. All
Reflect connects also due!
EXIT TICKET:
Homework: Read Chapter 19
Bring in one name/story of
someone who had been
shunned for their “sin” even
if they were not illegal.
Theme
Romanticism
Motifs
Conflict
Mood
HOW CAN I BE
SUCCESSFUL
A. Connect/Reflect
Diary for each
chapter.
B. Think like a Puritan
C. The Scarlet Letter
Study Guide
D. Essay Assignment
E. Glogster Themes
Analysis
Chapter 17 Notes
• It advances the plot and characters by revealing Hester
and Dimmesdale's feelings of the past seven years and
the reawakening of their dormant love. Also in this
chapter, Hawthorne reveals his philosophy on
punishment and forgiveness: that deliberate, calculated
acts of malice are far worse than sins of passion. In this
way, Chillingworth is the worst of the three sinners.
Finally, the author provides hope that his characters
will find an escape, a way out of their earthly torment.
He explores the conflict between natural law and
Puritan law in their escape plans.
•
COMPARE & CONTRAST:
• .
Two Compare/Contrast!
During the past seven years
Dimmesdale has been continually
tormented by the dichotomy between
what he is and what people believe him
to be.
His parishioners are "hungry for the
truth" and listen to his words as if "a
tongue of Pentecost were speaking!"
But as often as he has confessed his
guilt to God, he has not told it to any
other human being. He bears his
shame alone.
Hawthorne contrasts this with Hester's
visible sign of her guilt, confession,
and hope for redemption.
While Hester tries to console the
minister and persuade him that he has
repented and left his sin behind,
Dimmesdale knows that he can go no
place without carrying his hidden guilt
along
•
Hester realizes that she still loves
Dimmesdale, and she
courageously tells him this, even
as she reveals her silence
concerning Chillingworth.
•
Hawthorne contrasts their love —
"which had a consecration of its
own" — and Chillingworth's
revenge and asks the reader
which sin is worse. Who has
violated God's law with sure and
certain knowledge? And whose
place is it to provide redemption
and forgiveness?
While Hester believes they can
outrun "these iron men" with their
rules, guilt, and punishment,
Dimmesdale is not so sure.
Two forms of moral law are at
work here — the laws of God
and nature and the laws
interpreted and written by "these
iron men." In the long run, can
escaping the rules of man
enable them also to do God's
will?
•
•
Wednesday: September 7
Essential Question: How is the lessons of the Scarlet
Letter applicable in today’s society?
JOURNAL
TOPIC
TODAY:
Make a Venn
Diagram
compare
Natural Law
verses
Puritan Law
#1: Review Chapter 19 (was hw)
#2: Modern Day Application:
* Go to Edmodo.com
* Read and Respond to both Articles: make
sure to leave 1 intelligent comment for each
and respond at least two other people
responds adding to what they say.
EXIT TICKET:
Homework: Read Chapter 20
Copy Vocabulary
that we are using
today:
Theme
Romanticism
Motifs
Conflict
Mood
HOW CAN I BE
SUCCESSFUL
A. Connect/Reflect
Diary for each
chapter.
B. Think like a Puritan
C. The Scarlet Letter
Study Guide
D. Essay Assignment
E. Glogster Themes
Analysis
Chapter 19 Pop Quiz
①Why has Arthur Dimmesdale been worried about
Pearl?
②Of what is Pearl a living symbol?
③According to the narrator, why are Hester and
Pearl estranged?
④How does Hester feel when she puts on the scarlet
letter again?
⑤How does Pearl react to the minister’s kiss?
Thursday: September 6th 2011
Essential Question: How do the complications of the novel add to
the rising action of the novel?
Chapter 21/22: Read in class: Review
important notes
study guide, Projected Due date –
Wednesday September 14th
Unit Test for the book: September 14th also.
All Reflect connects also due!
Very Important: Theme
Identity:
JOURNAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2y
TOPIC
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TODAY: What
is the Theme Sin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xy9
of the Novel?
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How many
themes are in
this book?
EXIT TICKET:
Homework: Decide on a theme and
come up with at least 5 examples
FROM THE TEXT.
FOOD in the
classroom –
IT IS NOT ALLOWED.
DO NOT PERMIT;
ENFORCE OUR
AGREED UPON
EXPECTATION.
Failure to do so
negatively impacts
your colleagues and
our students -I will
address as needed
with both students
and adults so support
each other and do not
let failure to
enforce/ignoring
creep in to undermine
our work.
HOW CAN I BE
SUCCESSFUL
A. Connect/Reflect
Diary for each
chapter.
B. Think like a Puritan
C. The Scarlet Letter
Study Guide
D. Essay Assignment
E. Glogster Themes
Analysis
Chapter 20 pop quiz
①Where have Hester and Dimmesdale decided to go?
②The narrator calls Dimmesdale an “exemplary man.”
Does the narrator mean this literally, or is the
narrator being ironic? Explain…
NOTE: ex·em·pla·ryAdjective/igˈzemplərē/1. Serving as a
desirable model; representing the best of its kind.2.
Characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule
③Why (not what) does the town seem different to
Dimmesdale?
④Who is the only person who notices a change in the
minister?
⑤Why does Dimmesdale consider his actions similar to
“a bargain with the devil”?
1. They decided to go back to the Old World
2. To be an exemplary man would be someone who
serves as a desirable model, which Dimmesdale does
HOWEVER he is planning on using this speech to
inform the public of secrets that he has been keeping
hence it is ironic that he is going to use his post to
reveal his sin.
3. “The minister’s own will, and Hester’s will, and the
fate that grew between them, had wrought this
transformation”.
4. Old Mistress Hibbins, (let’s discuss)
5. “tempted by a dream of happiness, he had yielded
himself with deliberate choice, as he had never done
before, to what he knew was deadly sin. And the
infectious poison of that sin has been thus rapidly
diffused throughout his moral system.
Why does Pearl make her Mother reattach the letter?
• When she forces Hester to reattach the letter to her breast, Hester’s beauty
immediately dissolves, “like fading sunshine,” making it seem as if Pearl is wrong to
make her mother reassume her old identity.
• But the reader has already learned to associate Pearl with a special sort of insight,
and thus it does not seem likely that Pearl errs here. Indeed, once Pearl rejoins her
parents, it becomes apparent that she is right to be skeptical.
• She asks Dimmesdale to publicly acknowledge his relationship to her, and he
refuses. When added to the fact that the couple plans to flee to Europe, Pearl’s
instinctual displeasure with the changes that have taken place in the forest
suggests that Hester and Dimmesdale are not operating according to a newer,
better moral code but are instead trying to find new ways to defy the same old
social rules.
The Puritans fled Europe out of the desire to live in a place where they would not
need to hide their religious affiliations or fear the sanctions of others.
Within the novel, they simply seem to have re-created the old order in the new
world. Likewise, Hester and Dimmesdale are failing in their attempt to follow a
higher truth.
•
•
•
•
As the minister returns to town, he can hardly believe the change in his fortunes. He and
Hester have decided to go to Europe, since it offers more anonymity and a better
environment for Dimmesdale’s fragile health.
To announce to all he sees, “I am not the man for whom you take me! I left him yonder
in the forest,” Dimmesdale now finds things that were once familiar, including himself, to
seem strange.
As he passes one of the church elders on his way through town, the minister can barely
control his urge to utter blasphemous statements.
– He then encounters an elderly woman who is looking for a small tidbit of spiritual
comfort. To her he nearly blurts out a devastating “unanswerable argument against
the immortality of the human soul,” but something stops him, and the widow totters
away satisfied.
– He next ignores a young woman whom he has recently converted to the church
because he fears that his strange state of mind will lead him to plant some
corrupting germ in her innocent heart.
– Passing one of the sailors from the ship on which he plans to escape, Dimmesdale
has the impulse to engage with him in a round of oaths; this comes only shortly after
an encounter with a group of children, whom the minister nearly teaches some
“wicked words.”
– Finally, Dimmesdale runs into Mistress Hibbins, who chuckles at him and offers herself
as an escort the next time he visits the forest. This interchange disturbs Dimmesdale
and suggests to him that he may have made a bargain with Mistress Hibbins’s
master, the Devil.
The struggle between individual identity and social identity remains an important
theme. = Dimmesdale preaching on election day
NOTEBOOK TEST
①DEFINE: Knowing everything
②DEFINE: Theme
③DEFINE: Romanticism
④In chapter 17, Hawthorne reveals his philosophy
on punishment and forgiveness: that deliberate,
calculated acts of malice are far worse than what?
________________
⑤When describing the two forms of law it is stated
in our notes that: “Two forms of moral law are
at work here __________ and __________.
NOTEBOOK TEST
①DEFINE: Omniscient
② DEFINE: A theme is a thought or idea the author
presents to the reader that may be deep, difficult to
understand, or even moralistic. Generally, a theme has
to be extracted as the reader explores the passages of
a work.
DEFINE: Romanticism NATURE, LOVE,
SUPERNATURAL, INDIVIDUAL:
①that deliberate, calculated acts of malice are far worse
than sins of passion
② the laws of God and nature and the laws
interpreted and written by "these iron men.
Friday: September 9
Essential Question: What is a Theme and
what is it’s significance?
Copy Vocabulary
that we are using
today:
Theme
Romanticism
Motifs
Conflict
Mood
JOURNAL
TOPIC
TODAY:
What are
some of the
ways to talk
about
themes?
EXIT TICKET: Completion Rubric: Complete it and
turn it in before you leave
study guide, Projected Due
date – Wednesday
September 14th
Unit Test for the book:
September 14th also. All
Reflect connects also due!
HOW CAN I BE
SUCCESSFUL
A. Connect/Reflect
Diary for each
chapter.
B. Think like a Puritan
C. The Scarlet Letter
Study Guide
D. Essay Assignment
E. Glogster Themes
Analysis
Monday: September 11 2011 Welcome
Back!
Essential Question: Why would Hawthorne
call his story a Romance rather than a
novel?
Review Romanticism
Chapter 22-23: Read in class:
JOURNAL
Review important notes
TOPIC
Begin working on study guide,
TODAY:
Projected Due date – Wednesday
Why would
Hawthorne
September 14th
call his story
Unit Test for the book: September
a Romance
14th also. All Reflect connects also
rather than a
novel?
due!
EXIT TICKET:
Copy Vocabulary
that we are using
today:
Theme
Romanticism
Motifs
Conflict
Mood
HOW CAN I BE
SUCCESSFUL
A. Connect/Reflect
Diary for each
chapter.
B. Think like a Puritan
C. The Scarlet Letter
Study Guide
D. Essay Assignment
E. Glogster Themes
Analysis
Romanticism
The Scarlet Letter is an excellent example of Romantic Literature of the 19th century.
Romantic literature typically incorporates love, or personification of nature, as well as
maintaining the focus on the individual. The reader is often presented with a
psychological study of the characters. Some Romantic works include the supernatural
while others take an idealistic view of nature.
NATURE: Pearl to represent nature. She has a wild, untamed spirit, much like the wilderness,
which links her to nature and the animals it nurtures. This link is best shown at the end of
Chapter 18, where the natural world welcomes Pearl to play
LOVE: Dimmesdale is shown as a man torn in two directions. On one side is his love for
Hester, Pearl, and the Truth. The other side holds his cowardice and weakness; this side
uses his love of God and his hope to do good as excuses to hide his inner, true feelings.
SUPERNATURAL: The Scarlet Letter, and the Puritan people in general dwelt very much on
the supernatural and mysterious. Small examples include allusions to the Black Man
and the constant description of Mistress Hibbins as a witch. However, Hawthorne’s
description of the meteor and the red A that could be seen in the sky takes the
supernatural to new heights and definitely adds an aspect of awe and suspense to the
book.
INDIVIDUAL: Hester while punished with the scarlet letter for her sin does many good things
making clothes for the poor and acting as a nurse; because of these good deeds her
sign of shame becomes a badge of honor.
Dimmesdale hid his sin it grew worse until it taxed him physically and he was only
redeemed through the purification of death.
Chillingworth, who becomes corrupt with the need for revenge, also is redeemed through
death.
Pearl, who is basically a good child, is rewarded when she receives Chillingworth’s
inheritance and goes off to Europe.
Tuesday: September 12 2011
Essential Question: How has the plot
development lead to the resolution of the
story.
JOURNAL
TOPIC
TODAY:
How do you
predict the
book will
end? What
will be the
fate of each
character?
Chapter 23-24: Read in class: Review
important notes
Begin working on study guide, Projected
Due date – Wednesday September 14th
Unit Test for the book: September 14th also.
All Reflect connects also due!
EXIT TICKET:
Homework:
ALL WORK DUE TOMORROW:
REFLECT/CONNECTS
STUDY GUIDES
UNIT TEST TOMMORROW!
Copy Vocabulary
that we are using
today:
Theme
Romanticism
Motifs
Conflict
Mood
HOW CAN I BE
SUCCESSFUL
A. Connect/Reflect
Diary for each
chapter.
B. Think like a Puritan
C. The Scarlet Letter
Study Guide
D. Essay Assignment
E. Glogster Themes
Analysis