Walden Vocabulary
End of The Scarlet Letter
Color Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter--Red
Explain how Hester's sins are changed from red to white
What really happened at the end of the book? Justify your answer
SCARLET LETTER TEST NEXT TIME!

Thur/Friday

Be sure that you have finished The Scarlet Letter for Monday. We will discuss the entire book then and Monday and have our reading comprehension test Tue/Wed of next week.
Vocab quiz today.
Quizlet Scarlet Letter Vocab #5 "pallid" to "expiation" (but skip embowed and eldritch)
Watch Dead Poets Society. Take notes on characteristics of Romantic thought in the film.



Example sentences for words "pallid" to end
Two stories to read for fun (and practice)

I walked into the woods alone. My friends told me not to, but I was dauntless. As I wandered deeper into the woods, and I found an old, extant house. I ventured deeper into the basement and discovered a cabalistic ritual. The figures were morbid and pallid, surrounded by a panoply of ancient tomes along the walls. I felt the exigency to vacate the dankness of this wretched pit that surrounded my being. But before I could flee the premises, the dark robed figures stood as one. That is when I felt their ethereal blades pierce my flesh and rend my soul from my body. I saw nothing but dark cloth.

The man was no longer looking through his own eyes, but rather surveying the scene from above. It was a horribly morbid sight, and if the man had been in his own body he would have felt ill, but he was not. In fact, it was his body that he was looking upon. The pallid corpse lay embowed on a stone table, ribs nearly stabbing through the flesh of the emaciated figure. A cart still good to the left of the stone table, a panopoly of knives and other instruments lay upon it, lined up next to a large leather tome. The body- looking back upon it- was bloody, the hair matted and the chest stained. The man puzzled over this. Clearly, the cadaver was his own, yet even as he looked upon it he was sure he was still extant- he was conscious, at the very least, if not in his own flesh and blood. It was this certainty that spread the man's dauntlessness and (somehow, though without any physical being he was unsure of the exact actions he took) he turns the pages of the book, staring horrified at the images that filled the yellow pages. Gruesome forms stared at him from the pages, mutilated bodies and mangled forms that seems to float before his eyes. The man felt an exigency to slam the book shut, but he could not, for another man had entered the room. This man strode to the table, stood next to the body, picked up one of the knives – one that was perhaps 4 inches length, and ribbed. He raised it carefully. It glimmered in the dim light of the room. There was a flash of silver, a stabbing pain, and suddenly he was in his body once more – he was not dead after all. Agony flooded through him, spreading to each limb, each joint, every appendage. He thought he was dead when he had looked upon his body, but he knew that he was not dead, but dying. The knife a leech that was slowly ebbing away his life force. Slowly, his vision faded, his body weakened, and soon, the man was no longer alive.

1. Quiz
2. Discuss: Should Dimesdale have confessed? (259) (285); (303); (341-3);
(381 why hasn't D found peace?) (389 sanctity of the human heart); 
Compare to YGBrown (435-439) (506-50
1st Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples
4th Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples
5th Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples

Be sure that you have finished The Scarlet Letter for Thur/Friday. We will discuss the entire book then and Monday and have our reading comprehension test Tue/Wed of next week.
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words.
Quiz MONDAY, 10/24 #13-24
For quiz Thur/Fridy
Quizlet Scarlet Letter Vocab #5 "pallid" to "expiation" (but skip embowed and eldritch)
Example sentences for words "pallid" to end

1st Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples
4th Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples
5th Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples

Be sure that you have finished The Scarlet Letter for Thur/Friday. We will discuss the entire book then and Monday and have our reading comprehension test Tue/Wed of next week.
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words.
Quiz MONDAY, 10/24 #13-24
For quiz Thur/Fridy
Quizlet Scarlet Letter Vocab #5 "pallid" to "expiation" (but skip embowed and eldritch)

1st Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples
4th Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples
5th Period Puritan Worldview/Romantic Worldview Examples

Scarlet Letter Vocabulary for Thur/Friday

Be sure that you have finished the 20th chapter of The Scarlet Letter for next time.
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words.
Quiz MONDAY, 10/24 #13-24

Discuss worldviews in The Scarlet Letter 
Puritan Worldview            vs.             Romantic Worldview
New England Primer
New England Primer (easy to read version)
For each letter (over half), write the Puritan value/view seen
When finished, write 1/3 page summary of Puritan worldview (bullet points OK)


The Romantic Worldview
Take out notes. Add notes on Beethoven's Heilegenstadt Testament
Pathétique Sonata

PSAT is coming up!
SAT Writing Test review

Be sure that you have finished the 17th chapter of The Scarlet Letter for next time.
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words.
NEXT MONDAY, 10/24 #13-24

Watch Scarlet Letter movie

Scarlet Letter

As I said at the beginning of the year, The Scarlet Letter is a very challenging read. Here's a link to some copies of the Kaplan edition on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xscarlet+letter+kaplan.TRS0&_nkw=scarlet+letter+kaplan&_sacat=0
And Amazon has a few more for about $7.

VOCABULARY QUIZ THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO GIVE YOU MONDAY.
Words 1-12
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words.
NEXT MONDAY, 10/17 #13-24
Reading time.
Reading calendar. 
Finish      By date 
Ch. 17     Monday, October 17  
Ch. Finish    Tue, October 25
TODAY:
Discuss Scarlet Letter, chapters 1-5
ROMANTICISM in The Scarlet Letter
ROMANTICISM NOTES:

HOMEWORK: Most of you need to do some serious review of The Scarlet Letter. If you did not know who Chillingworth was before today, for example, you have a problem. Also, as you reasd, keep mental notes on who says what. The exam for this novel is tough and many students score C's which is . . . a bummer. So, what you might want to consider doing (I can't believe I'm saying this) is read some sort of online summary and discussion of the book.  Sparknotes for this book is actually quite good, although I think that a couple of parts of the analysis a bit off. The Sparknotes summary will be somewhat challenging for some of you to read, too :^/  There are other summaries, too, and I imagine that some of you know that there are forums where people discuss the novel. With the Internet, you can become self-sufficient learners. I imagine that you could search for "Why is Chillingworth named Chillingworth?" and find some interesting ideas and information (I haven't looked it up). You could do the same thing for Pearl, of course. Or "Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter." You get the idea. If you want an "A" in the class, you're going to read carefully AND think quite a bit about what you read.

Note: From now on, whenever you want to go to the bathroom or locker, you have to ask in a foreign language. "Why, Mr. Isom?"--"Je ne sais pas/No lo sé/Ich weish es nicht/I don't know."
French: Puis-je aller aux toilettes (pooh ee zhuh all "a" oh twah let)
Spanish: Puedo ir al bano? (pooh "a" dough ear all bahn yo)
German: Darf ich in das Badezimmer gehen (? you tell me. Darf eesch in dahs bahd zimmer gay en??)

Monday: I FORGOT TO GIVE YOU GUYS THE VOCABULARY QUIZ SO I WILL GIVE IT TO YOU TUE/WED.

Vocab quiz Tue/Wed Words 1-12
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words. You will be tested on the remaining 12 words on Monday of next week.

5th period, write down the poem from memory
Discuss Scarlet Letter, chapters 1-5
Note: From now on, whenever you want to go to the bathroom or locker, you have to ask in a foreign language. "Why, Mr. Isom?"--"Je ne sais pas/No lo sé/Ich weish es nicht/I don't know."
French: Puis-je aller aux toilettes (pooh ee zhuh all "a" oh twah let)
Spanish: Puedo ir al bano? (pooh "a" dough ear all bahn yo)
German: Darf ich in das Badezimmer gehen (? you tell me. Darf eesch in dahs bahd zimmer gay en??)

Thor'sday

Note: From now on, whenever you want to go to the bathroom or locker, you have to ask in a foreign language. "Why, Mr. Isom?"--"Je ne sais pas/No lo sé/Ich weish es nicht/I don't know."
French: Puis-je aller aux toilettes (pooh ee zhuh all "a" oh twah let)
Spanish: Puedo ir al bano? (pooh "a" dough ear all bahn yo)
German: Darf ich in das Badezimmer gehen (? you tell me. Darf eesch in dahs bahd zimmer gay en)

Intro to Puritan era.
The Story of Captain John Smith that You Didn't Learn in the Disney Flick
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God reenactment on YouTube

Read Scarlet Letter for 25 minutes
Finish chapter 9 over the weekend
Memorize Scarlet Letter Vocab 1-12
NOTE: Students who end up with "A's" usually have perfect vocab quiz scores. It will save you when you score a "B+" on an exam or two and receive low "A's" on essays.

Woden'sday

The Scarlet Letter
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words. You will be tested on these first 12 words Monday and the remaining 12 words on Monday of next week.

Quiz

Discuss loss of innocence theme and archetype; movie Inside Out

In-class reading time

Reading calendar. 
Finish      By date
Ch. 4       Monday, October 3
Ch.  9      Monday, October 10   
Ch. 17     Monday, October 17  
Ch. Finish    Tue, October 25

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS: Here's your recommendation of the day: 
Get the app Word Reference. It is a dictionary that is beyond awesome (I'm not sure what word to use. It's that great)

Tiu's day

The Scarlet Letter
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words. You will be tested on these first 12 words Monday and the remaining 12 words on Monday of next week.
Finish Young Goodman Brown
Quiz
Here's a Quizlet deck with 41 words you really need to know to fully understand the story:
Young Goodman Brown Vocabulary
Some of these words will be extra credit on the next couple of quizzes.
Close reading of page 2

Watch The Scarlet Letter (probably Thor's day)

The director of a film makes numerous artistic decisions. Your job is to ask if those decisions are true to the text. For example: Does the mood of the music fit; was it a good idea to change the color of a character's eyes; is the actor capturing the right emotion, or should the character be more . . .

In-class reading time

Reading calendar. 
Finish      By date
Ch. 4       Monday, October 3
Ch.  9      Monday, October 10
Ch. 12     5th/6th
Ch. 14     7th/8th
Ch. 17    12th
Ch. 18    13th/14th
Ch. 20    15th/16th     
Ch. 23    19th
Ch. 24-end 20th/21st    

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS: Here's your recommendation of the day: 
Get the app Word Reference. It is a dictionary that is beyond awesome (I'm not sure what word to use. It's that great)
Wordreference.com

Moon day, "8th" month of the year

The Scarlet Letter
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words. You will be tested on these first 12 words Thur/Friday and the remaining 12 words on Thur/Friday of next week.

Read Young Goodman Brown
Reread at home
Quiz next time. Be sure to read it!!
Here's a Quizlet deck with 41 words you really need to know to fully understand the story:
Young Goodman Brown Vocabulary
You might want to print it and have it at your side as you read.
Some of these words will be extra credit on the next couple of quizzes.

Watch The Scarlet Letter

The director of a film makes numerous artistic decisions. Your job is to ask if those decisions are true to the text. For example: Does the mood of the music fit; was it a good idea to change the color of a character's eyes; is the actor capturing the right emotion, or should the character be more . . .

In-class reading time

Reading calendar. 
Finish      By date
Ch. 4       Monday, October 3
Ch.  9      Monday, October 10
Ch. 12     5th/6th
Ch. 14     7th/8th
Ch. 17    12th
Ch. 18    13th/14th
Ch. 20    15th/16th     
Ch. 23    19th
Ch. 24-end 20th/21st    

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS: Here's your recommendation of the day: 
Get the app Word Reference. It is a dictionary that is beyond awesome (I'm not sure what word to use. It's that great)
Wordreference.com