Woden's Day

Homework: Finish your 3/4 page journal and hand it in at the first of the period tomorrow.

Who attended the Beethoven 3rd Piano Concerto last night?
Here's a recording:
Beethoven 3rd Piano Concerto--Argerich
And here's your romantic piece for the day--one of my absolute favorites performed by an amazing pianist, Martha Angerich
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, 2nd movement--Argerich

Today's Assignment:
Discuss: Should Dimmesdale confess to his congregation? 
Chillingworth: "Yet some me bury their secrets" (Kaplan, p. 259)
Dimmesdale: "[but] can we not suppose . . . they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of me; because, thenceforward, no good can be achieved the them?" (p. 259)

And when Hester and Dimmesdale meet in the forest and Hester says that she is planning to reveal just who Chillingworth is and she pleads that he stop torturing Dimmesdale, Chillingworth responds, "No--no! He has but increased the debt!"  Explain


Just so you get your money's worth today, here's my little tidbit of information for the day:
Origins of names of the days of the week

If you were gone yesterday, here's the writing assignment:

In chapter 5, "Hester at her Needle," Hawthorne introduces what was, at the time, a fairlyrevolutionary idea--that people who sin sometimes become better people than they would have had they led pious lives. 
Journal entry (3/4 page): In what ways has Hester's sin helped her to grow as a person? Find one or two examples from chapter 5 to help you develop your point of view.
Examples:
(Kaplan, p. 161) "Hester bestowed all her superfluous means in charity, on wretches less miserable than herself, and who not unfrequently insulted the hand that fed them."
(Kaplan, p. 169) "The scarlet letter had endowed her with a new sense. She shuddered to believe, yet could not help believing, that it gave her sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in others hearts."