Day 4 THE SCARLET LETTER

Back to the scaffold

DO NOW: Discuss your highlighted quotations and individual questions

Learning Target:
-I will practice reading closely to identify tone and theme

AGENDA:
1) Share group findings-- significant, confusing, meaningful passages
2) Discuss
p. 72-73 armor
How does Hawthorne describe Pearl? 70, 79
Iron-Curtained Dimmesdale; Iron 55, 57, 58;
What do we learn about Chillingworth? Snake 50, 51, 52-53.
Hibbons 80
3) Governor's Garden Close Reading Practice

HW: Read chapters 9-12 and complete one double-entry journal (template here) on a passage of your choice.

Please read chapters 13-15 by Monday, 2 December.

Day 3 THE SCARLET LETTER

Do Now: Please read the slides on a psychoanalytical reading of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." Consider important differences between Young Goodman Brown and Hester Prynne.

Walking to and fro, with those lonely footsteps, in the little world with which she was outwardly connected, it now and then appeared to Hester,—if altogether fancy, it was nevertheless too potent to be resisted,—she felt or fancied, then, that the scarlet letter
 had endowed her with a new sense. She shuddered to believe, yet could not help believing, that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts. ... Be it accepted as a proof that all was not corrupt in this poor victim of her own frailty, and man's hard law, that Hester Prynne yet struggled to believe that no fellow-mortal was guilty like herself. (59-60)

AGENDA:
1) Finish annotated works cited
2) Double-entry journal on Chillingworth
3) Discussion questions:

a) Chillingworth: What is he after and why? How is he described? How are we supposed to feel about his character ?
b) Why does Hester stay in New England? (2 reasons?) Where does she live? How does she make a living, and what one symbolic item is she not asked to make? (54-55)
c) How is Hester “like a ghost” in the village? (58)
d) Pearl: how is she described? (62-63)
e) How does Pearl react to the scarlet A? (66)
f) What is Hester afraid of in regards to Pearl? (68)

HW: Read chapters 7-8 and select a passage that is open to analysis for Monday's discussions.

Day 2 THE SCARLET LETTER

DO NOW: Group discussion of annotations from Chapters 1-3. Select one passage and question/inference to share with the class.

Learning Targets: Explain how word choice can reveal more than just plot; explain how our literature is relevant today

AGENDA:
1) Group sharing of discussion highlights-- what parts of the book seem significant, important, confusing?
(The townswomen, 35M, 36M, community 40, 60, 68; Hester 36B, 37, 53, 54B-55T, Iron 55, 57, 58; The Scaffold 38, 43B, and Prison 48M; Chillingworth 41, 42T, 42M snake, 50, 51, 52-53; Pearl as oxy 61, 64 v. children, 66)
2) Evidence of narrator’s perspective/opinion of Hester?

3) In your groups, consider a contemporary version of the public shaming Hester endures. Why is this human behavior so widespread?
4) Reading and/or editorial work

HW: Read and annotate Chapters 4 through 6 + Highlight 3 quotations to discuss and come up with 2 discussion questions.

Reminder: Editorial due Thursday. Please share the final draft with me and print a copy for class.

Day 1 THE SCARLET LETTER

DO NOW: New Unit! Find your new group. Then, share your annotations from the introductory essay.

Learning Targets:
I will practice reading closely to identify tone.
I will know I hit my target when I can
Explain how word choice can reveal more than just plot

AGENDA:
1) First pages
2) Unit Overview & Books
3) "The Custom House"
4) (If time) Editorial work continued
SUMMARIZER: Looking at the close reading passage, analyze how one word intensifies tone and/or meaning.

HW: Read and annotate chapters 1-3. (Mark at least three passages and write briefly about each one in your notebook.)

Poetry Anthologies

Our Poetry Anthologies are finally assembled! On Friday, we'll set aside one mod for each group to briefly introduce their poet to the class. The Pritchard introduction never materialized, but I think the poems can speak for themselves.

Indigo Class Anthology

Pink Class Anthology

5 minutes: Briefly talk to your group about which poem you will read aloud. We will allot time for the poet's biography, one of her/his poems (including the group's introduction), and a note or two about what you appreciated in your poet's work.

HW (Due Friday): Please print at least one body paragraph of the editorial draft and bring it to class.

HW: Please read and annotate part I of the introductory essay to The Scarlet Letter. Also, work on your editorial (due Thursday).

Editorials

Do Now: Please open one of the following op ed pages and read one or two pieces. These editorials will give you a sense of how your own editorial might sound.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/

https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion

https://www.latimes.com/topic/op-ed

-Meet with your partner and open your shared document.

-Look over your "thesis" and ask yourselves: does it take a stand on an issue (e.g., nature, conformity, education, etc.)? Revise accordingly.

-Outline (i.e., what are the subtopics?, what evidence will go where?)

-Draft

HW: Rough draft of at least one subtopic.

Interested in Creative Writing?

The New England Young Writers’ Conference (NEYWC) at Bread Loaf (Vermont!) is a four day writing-focused workshop for high school students in New England and from around the country.  The long weekend is packed with writing seminars, workshops, readings, and opportunities to meet fellow young writers.  This year's conference is May 14-17.

To apply, please submit a 1-page piece of creative writing to the English Department Office by Friday, November 15.  Winners will be notified on Tuesday, November 19 and must meet with Ms. Fant A mod Wednesday, November 20.

For more information (including cost), click here: 

http://sites.middlebury.edu/neywc/files/2019/09/NEYWC-Brochure-2020.pdf

Poetry Project

Today is our last work day in the computer lab.

Agenda:
-Proofreading your chapter (biography, 3-5 poems with abstracts for each, notes page with 3-5 bullet points)
-Imitation poems and works cited
Using Noodletools (MLA)
Username: chenery
Password: washington
-Assigning roles for when we share the chapters

HW: Finish steps 6 and 7 of the brainstorm document.

For Friday, complete step 8 of the brainstorm document.

For a sample editorial, please click here (with thanks to Ms. Fant!)

Poetry Project

Do Now: Please meet with your group members in the computer lab. 

Today's goal: Assemble as much as possible of your group's chapter. By the end of class, you should have drafts of: the poet biography; 3-5 poems with introductions that describe speaker/situation and a big idea; a page of notes including 3-5 ideas, literary devices, allusions, etc.

1) Introducing your poems and adding notes
2) Assembling your chapter
3) Imitation poem
4) Compiling your works cited page

HW: String Journal #6 is due MONDAY, 4 November. Please consider watching this 60 Minutes segment (it's not sixty minutes long) about paying attention and honing your powers of observation. It may give you an idea of what to look for during this final journal entry.

HW: Complete steps 4 and 5 of the brainstorm document.