Your reading assignment tonight is to tackle Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil." I think that you'll see some similarities between this story and The Scarlet Letter, and both stories will help us to get a handle on the Puritan's ways of dealing with guilt.
At the same time that we are reading Hawthorne, we will be watching the movie version of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. In The Crucible we also see characters struggling with guilt--some in ways similar to Hawthorne's characters, and some in more contemporary ways (this play was written in 1953 and deals with issues of that time).
Here is the link to the online text for The Minister's Black Veil. Be ready to discuss it tomorrow.
And don't forget that you have a vocab quiz Friday (and will every Friday)
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