Every night (including "A days" and weekends) you will read approximately 10 pages of The Scarlet Letter. So, even if I don't give you a specific reading assignment, you should read on your own at home or you will fall behind. Remember, many good students have "B's" by the end of this unit simply because this is a challenging novel 8^o
Here's an audiobook from YouTube:
Scarlet Letter, chapters 1, 2
Scarlet Letter, chapters 3, 4, 5
Scarlet Letter, chapters 6, 7, 8, 9
Here's another audiobook version: Scarlet Letter
Side-by-side "translation" of the Scarlet Letter: No Fear Lit: Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter Video, narrated by President Snow of The Hunger Games!
Take notes (don't hand in until we have finished this 50-minute video next week
Quizlet list of 24 Scarlet Letter words. You will be tested on these first 12 words next Monday and the remaining 12 words on Thur/Friday of next week.
Poems to start the year: October, Bereft, Spring and Fall, 73rd Sonnet
Memorize one of these poems Friday, September 29th
You will write the poem ifrom memory.
How to memorize:
- visualize each image
- recite with feeling, paying attention to the rhythm and meter
- act it out with hand gestures
- think through concepts and the development of ideas
- practice, using different voices and intonation
- read it very slowly. Bit by bit.
- write it over and over again
- if you're a really big nerd, you use crazy voices
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