In CLASS: I am at the Teaching as Historian program today. Your substitute will collect the responses for chapters 1 and 2 of The Scarlet Letter at the beginning of class. Nothing will be accepted after this time.
You will writing a short analysis on your reading. As you do not need textual evidence for this, you will not be using your books.
Homework: Friday, December 13 Chapters 3 and 4 of The Scarlet Letter with accompanying text-based responses. Due at the beginning of class.
Please familiarize yourself with Hawthorne's background, especially the Transendentalist movement.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of a long line of Puritan ancestors including John Hathorne, a presiding magistrate in the Salem witch trials. In order to distance himself from his family's shameful involvement in the witch trials, Hawthorne added the "w" to his last name during his early 20s. After his father, a ship captain, died of yellow fever at sea when Nathaniel was only four, his mother became overly protective and pushed him toward relatively isolated pursuits. Hawthorne's childhood left him overly shy and bookish, which molded his life as a writer. Hawthorne turned to writing after his graduation from Bowdoin College. His insufficient earnings as a writer forced Hawthorne to enter a career as a Boston Custom House measurer in 1839. After three years Hawthorne was dismissed from his job with the Salem Custom House, but by 1842, his writing finally gave Hawthorne a sufficient income to marry Sophia Peabody and move to The Manse in Concord, which was the center of the Transcendental movement. Hawthorne then devoted himself to his most famous novel, The Scarlet Letter. He zealously worked on the novel with a determination he had not known before. His intense suffering infused the novel with imaginative energy, leading him to describe it as a "hell-fired story." The Scarlet Letter was an immediate success that allowed Hawthorne to devote himself to his writing.
A reminder: who were the Pilgrims.A religious group which migrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England in the early 1600s, the Puritans believed in a “pure” interpretation of the Bible which did not include some of the traditional practices of the Church of England. Although the Church did not officially control the State in Puritan settlements, religion and government were closely intertwined. The ministers counseled the magistrates in all affairs concerning the settlement and its citizens. The Puritans had strict rules against the theater, religious music, sensuous poetry, and frivolous dress.
Friday, December 14 Chapters 3 and 4 questions pages 56-72
1. (TEXT) What specifically does the "white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilized and savage costume" do to indicate to Hester that she should not acknowledge that she knows him?
2. (TEXT) Describe Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale.
3. (TEXT) How does Roger Chillingsworth calm the baby and Pearl in prison?
4. What is Chillingsworth response to Hester's not revealing the identity of her paramour?
Monday, December 17 Chapters 5 and 6 pages 72-90
Chapter 5:
1. (TEXT)What does Hester become to general public in giving up her individuality?
2.(TEXT) Give two reasons why Hester does not leave the community.
Chapter 6
3. (TEXT) What is the significance of Pearl's name?
4. (TEXT) Describe Pearl's physical attributes and personality.
5. For what two reasons has Hester come to the governor’s hall?
Tuesday, December 18 Chapters 7 and 8 pages 91-107
1. For what two reasons has Hester come to the governor’s hall?
2. (TEXT) How exactly does Pearl respond to Mr. Wilson's question as to who made her?
3. Who does Hester ask to speak for her in defense of her keeping the child?
4. (text) Chillingsworth wishes to "analyze the child's nature" so as to discover the father, but Mr. Wilson thinks that "profane philosophy...and better to fast and pray upon it." According to him, what is the advantage of not knowing the father's identity?
Wednesday, December 19 chapters 9 and 10 pages 107-126
1. (TEXT) What has Chillingworth not “come forward to vindicate his claim?”
2. (TEXT) What had the leech learned while in his Indian captivity?
3. (TEXT) According to the town’s folk, what was the reason for Mr. Dimmesdale’s poor health?
4. (TEXT) Why does Chillingworth know that he will discover the source of Dimmesdale’s illness, if he watches his patience carefully?
5. Discuss Chillingworth and Dimmesdale’s views on Pearl and how they relate to Romanticism. Support this through the text.
Thursday, December 20….we are in the library lab
Friday, December 21…class play day.
Wednesday, January 2, chapters 11-24 pages 126-235
Chapter 11 The Interior of the Heart pages 126-133
1. (TEXT)How does Reverend Dimmesdale feel about Chillingsworth?
2. (TEXT)How does the congregation view the popular Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale?
3. How did the minister punish himself?
Chapter 12. The Minister’s Vigil pages 133-144
1. What “vain show of expiation” does the minister perform?
2. Who joins the minister?
3. What does Pearl ask of the minister and how does he reply?
4. (TEXT) What appears in the sky and how does it appear?
Chapter 13 Another view of Hester 144-151
1. How and why had the public’s perception of Hester changed in seven years?
2. The narrator ascribes Hester’s physical change from having”turned…from passion and feeling to thought.” Make a philosophical parallel.
3. How had Hester’s sin impacted Pearl?
4. (TEXT) Why does Hester resolve to meet with Roger Chillingworth?
Chapter 14 Hester and the Physician 152-157
1. When Chillingworth informs Hester that the “scarlet letter might be taken off [her] bosom”, she responds, “It lies not in the pleasure of the magistrates to take off this badge.” What does she mean with this statement?
2. (TEXT)Why won’t Chillingworth stop torturing Dimmesdale?
Chapter 15 Hester and Pearl 158-164
1. (TEXT)How did Pearl occupy herself by the water?
2. Describe Pearl’s interactions with the scarlet letter.
Chapter 16 A Forest Walk 164-170
1. (TEXT) While in the forest, what does Pearl observe of the sun in relation to Hester?
2. (TEXT) How does Pearl personify the brook?
3. (TEXT) How does the minister look when Hester encounters him on the path?
Chapter 17 The Pastor and his Parishioner 170-179
1. (TEXT) How does the narrator describe Hester and Dimmesdale when they first meet along the path?
2. Dimmesdale is clearly suffering. Why does he think Hester suffers less than he?
3. How does the minister react when Hester tells him about Roger Chillingworth?
4. What does Hester tell Dimmesdale she will do with him?
Chapter 18 A Flood of Sunshine 179-185
1. (TEXT) What does Hester do, once she and Dimmesdale had made their plans?
2. (TEXT) Describe what Hester does next/
3. The minister observes, “I see the child…Yonder she is, standing in a streak of sunshine, a good way off, on the other side of the brook.” Explain this statement in terms of Romanticism.
Chapter 19 The Child at the Brook-Side 185-192
1. Why will Pearl not cross the brook?
2. (TEXT) How does Pearl treat Dimmesdale?
3. What does she do when he kisses her forehead?
Chapter 20 The Minister in the Maze 192-202
1. What arrangements does Hester make for her departing Boston?
2. Give two textual examples of how the minister’s behavior has changed?
3. (TEXT) Of what has Chillingworth become aware in regards to the minister.
Chapter 21 The New England Holiday 202-211
1. (TEXT) How were the people in the market place different from the previous generation?
2. Why is” Roger Chillingworth…seen to enter the marketplace, in close and familiar contact with the questionable vessel?”
3. Of what does the master of the vessel inform Hester?
Chapter 22 The Procession 211-221
1. List the order of the procession. (Check by paragraph)
2. What does Mistress Hibbins tell Hester?
Chapter 23 The Revelation 221-229
1. Describe the scene on the scaffold. Intersperse with textual material.
Chapter 24 Conclusion 230-235
1. What became of Hester?
2. What became of Chillingworth?
3. What became of Pearl?
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