The Scarlet Letter
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Analysis Learning Goals:
Identify and Define Puritan Literature
Determine characteristics of Puritan Literature to prove theme
Analyze how Puritan Literature reflects or responds to Puritan culture
Evaluate the effectiveness of Puritan Literature to change reader's minds
Identify and Define common cultural symbols
Determine symbols unique to individual text
Analyze how symbols in literature prove theme
Evaluate the effectiveness of symbols to change reader's minds
Identify and Define motif in literature
Determine motifs unique to individual texts
Analyze how motifs in literature prove theme
Develop high complex-text (Lexile) reading skills
Identify and Define Puritan Literature
Determine characteristics of Puritan Literature to prove theme
Analyze how Puritan Literature reflects or responds to Puritan culture
Evaluate the effectiveness of Puritan Literature to change reader's minds
Identify and Define common cultural symbols
Determine symbols unique to individual text
Analyze how symbols in literature prove theme
Evaluate the effectiveness of symbols to change reader's minds
Identify and Define motif in literature
Determine motifs unique to individual texts
Analyze how motifs in literature prove theme
Develop high complex-text (Lexile) reading skills
Listen to Ms. Ringelspaugh read The Scarlet Letter out loud streaming from Google Docs:Remember to read along with the audio. Your long-term complex-text reading skills don't improve unless you read along. Eyes on the page.
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Chapter 1: What is the difference between the prison door and the rose-bush?
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Chapter 2 and 3: Who are these people?
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Chapters 4, 5, and 6: What does each character want most? What symbols tell you so?
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Chapters 7 and 8: What do the symbols tell us?
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Chapter 9 and 10: Compare and Contrast Dimmesdale and Chillingworth
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Chapter 11 and 12: Compare the second scaffold scene to the first scaffold scene.
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Chapter 13 and 14: Who has suffered most? Who has changed the most?
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Chapter 15 and 16: Pearl!
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Chapter 17 and 18: Does Hawthorne approve of Hester and Dimmesdale's Relationship or Hester and Chillingworth's?
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Chapters 19 and 20: What's the difference between Town Dimmesdale and Forest Dimmesdale?
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Chapters 21, 22, and 23: Pearl!
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Chapter 24: What is the overall theme for the novel? What does Hawthorne want you to learn?
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Resources and More Information:
Hawthorne Short Stories:
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister's Black Veil
For more information on Hawthorne:
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Hawthorne.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/
http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/hawthorne_na.html
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Explore/FaithReligFramework.html
For literary criticism of The Scarlet Letter and other Hawthorne works:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~gundyj/StudiesAmLit/scarletletterviews.htm
http://www2.ivcc.edu/flm2010/Tompkins.html
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister's Black Veil
For more information on Hawthorne:
http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Hawthorne.htm
http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/
http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/hawthorne_na.html
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Explore/FaithReligFramework.html
For literary criticism of The Scarlet Letter and other Hawthorne works:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~gundyj/StudiesAmLit/scarletletterviews.htm
http://www2.ivcc.edu/flm2010/Tompkins.html
Puritan Literature Essay Question:
Find a motif in the Scarlet Letter and Hawthorne short stories. How does he develop them differently or similarly in different works? What was Hawthorn trying to prove about Antebellum society? What was he trying to show the reader with that motif? What factor's in Hawthorne's life do you think led to those themes and motifs?
