Monday, September 18

ANNOTATED SCARLET LETTER
This site is AWESOME. There are links to difficult words.

1. summer Reading Essay: Turnitin.com, due Monday, Sept 18, 9:00AM

Class ID: 16281811

Enrollment key: southsaxons

You must bring a hard copy to class on Monday, too.

How to Write a Creative Title for an Essay

2. Hand in summer reading essay

3. What point is Hawthorne making in the story Young Goodman Brown concerning hypocisy?

4. So, according to Hawthorne the world is filled with evil, especially hypocrisy. The question for all of us is, "How are you going to respond to that?" Start out by asking, "What is wrong with the way that Young Goodman Brown responds to that?"

5.Scarlet Letter. Read chapter 2 together

Homework: Read chapter 

4. Tuesday's homework: Read chapters 5, 6 (we read about 10 pages per day (70 per week)

Grammar exercises to help you avoid conventions errors in your essays:
Two rules of thumb: 
1. "If you could have a period, you can't just have a comma."

2. To write effective sentences that develop ideas, sometimes you need to add a comma or two.
Here are some good Quizlet decks for practice:
Comma Splices 1
Comma Splices 2
Run-on Sentences 1
Sentence Fragment 1

To make sure that you all understand how to write a strong essay, today we will review a fairy tale and ask ourselves how an essay on that story might be written. As a group you will choose one Summer Reading Essay prompt and:

Write an opening sentence

Write a thesis

Write a topic sentence for one idea

Cite a specific example from the story (consider quoting it)

Write three sentences elaborating that idea

Write a concluding sentence for that paragraph

As you write, be sure to follow this basic rule of thumb for good writing:

"Good writing passionately addresses what it is to be a human being."
(As you are writing I will call you up to my desk to show me your annotations)

 1.  Write an essay that presents your interpretation of the novel’s main character (or characters) and discusses his or her motives. Include discussion about the choices and decisions the character makes which impact the pivotal events of the novel. Use specific textual evidence to support your analysis.

 2.  Write an essay that presents an argument about a major theme of the novel. How does the novel’s theme reflect meaningful values shared by human beings. Use specific textual evidence to support your argument.

 3.  Discuss the roles of men and women in the novel (and the interactions and relationships among them) and present an argument about what these roles reveal about the society reflected in the novel. Use specific textual evidence to support your argument.

 4. Write an essay that explains how the novel is concerned with one of the following motifs: the gaining or losing of paradise, initiation, scapegoating, social class and mobility, a utopia/dystopia, a quest, rebirth or redemption, cultural barriers, baptism/floods, transformation, sacrifice, betrayal and revenge, search for identify, the conflict between good and evil, or parental roles. Use specific textual evidence to support your analysis.