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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

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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Remember to read along with the audio.  Your long-term complex-text reading
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Chapter 1: What is the difference between the prison door and the rose-bush?

Chapter 1 - The Scarlet Letter (3 min)
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Chapter 2 and 3:  Who are these people?

Chapter 2 - The Scarlet Letter (21 min)
Chapter 3 - The Scarlet Letter (20 min)
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Chapters 4, 5, and 6:  What does each character want most?  What symbols tell you so?

Chapter 4 - The Scarlet Letter (13 min)
Chapter 5 - The Scarlett Letter (19 min)
Chapter 6 - The Scarlet Letter (19 min)
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Chapters 7 and 8:  What do the symbols tell us?

Chapter 7 - The Scarlet Letter (13 min)
Chapter 8 - The Scarlet Letter (17 min)
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Chapter 9 and 10:  Compare and Contrast Dimmesdale and Chillingworth

Chapter 9 - The Scarlet Letter (22 min)
Chapter 10 - The Scarlet Letter (19 min)
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Chapter 11 and 12:  Compare the second scaffold scene to the first scaffold scene.   

Chapter 11 - The Scarlet Letter (14 min)
Chapter 12 - The Scarlet Letter (21 min)
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Chapter 13 and 14: Who has suffered most?  Who has changed the most?

Chapter 13 - The Scarlet Letter (15 min)
Chapter 14 - The Scarlet Letter (13 min)
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Chapter 15 and 16:  Pearl!

Chapter 15 - The Scarlet Letter (12 min)
Chapter 16 - The Scarlet Letter (11 min)
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Chapter 17 and 18: Does Hawthorne approve of Hester and Dimmesdale's Relationship or Hester and Chillingworth's?

Chapter 17 - The Scarlet Letter (18 min)
Chapter 18 - The Scarlet Letter (12 min)
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Chapters 19 and 20:  What's the difference between Town Dimmesdale and Forest Dimmesdale?

Chapter 19 - The Scarlet Letter (13 min)
Chapter 20 - The Scarlet Letter (22 min)
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Chapters 21, 22, and 23: Pearl!

Chapter 21 - The Scarlet Letter (17 min)
Chapter 22 - The Scarlet Letter (20  min)
Chapter 23 - The Scarlet Letter (17 min)
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Chapter 24:  What is the overall theme for the novel?  What does Hawthorne want you to learn?

Chapter 24 - The Scarlet Letter (12 min)
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Or, listen to the audio of the Scarlet Letter and other Puritan works from Libri Vox:

National Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Jonathon Edwards, The Selected Sermons 

Or, other back-up options to listen to Ms. Ringelspaugh reading the novel:

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Forget your book somewhere random?  Read the full-text on-line:

The Scarlet Letter

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

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?
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