Moon Day, "seventh month"

Where we get the names for the days of the week: Days of the Week

HOMEWORK:
Memorize Scarlet Letter vocab chapter 9-12


Students who are interested in boosting their vocab might want to check out this Quizlet deck of
135 Scarlet Letter Vocabulary Words, arranged in order of appearance
Read The Crucible
Google Doc "wiki's"
   Puritanism
   What really happened to the "afflicted girls"
   The McCarthy Red Scare


Write a sentence paraphrasing one of the most important ideas

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 Monday and the remaining 12 words on Thur/Friday.
Find example sentences on Chromebooks
In groups of two or three max, write vocabulary story using at least 7 of the 24 words, with an emphasis on the first 12. Submit to Google Doc:
Vocab Story, Scarlet Letter, Period 6

Poems to start the year: October, Bereft, Spring and Fall, 73rd Sonnet
Choose one of the four poems to memorizeDiscuss and write in Journal: "In what ways does the poet use imagery to develop one of his main ideas. 

• State the idea and then 
• Cite/quote at least two examples from the poem. Then 
• Explain how the example supports that idea. 
• Elaborate for an additional sentence.

Memorize one of these poems Friday, October 6th
You will write the poem from 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

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

Notes on Romanticism

1776-1848 in Europe and U.S.

Characteristics of Romantic Worldview

--The Individual

--The Human Heart (over mind)

--Passion

--Nature

(the individual learns "what it's all about" 

  by heading into nature)

--Intuition 

--Intense personal experience

--Exotic

--valued genius

• --valued pyschology, mystery, the occult