Due by midnight tomorrow: your Scarlet Letter essays for the RocRead. As I said- and wrote previously- they are due downtown Wednesday, so after midnight, you will receive only 50 points for your late essay. I need to read them before school Wednesday. As they must be typed- see detailed instructions from the handout or the blog from last Wednesday- you may always send the essay along to me directly, and I'll print it out.
DUE Wednesday, January 9- synonym vocabulary words from Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, which we will be reading in class. class handout; copy below. You are responsible for these words for a quick matching quiz on Friday.
In class today: we are looking at the important symbols within The Scarlet Letter. These were on last week's blog; so I'll simply reference those images in class.
As well, this is your opportunity to pose questions relating to plot, character, themes, setting or any other aspect of the novel. So to begin class, everyone will write out a question and submit it for group discussion.
Tuesday, January 8: we are in the library, so that you may work on your essays. Make sure you have your thumb drive's with you, so if needed you can continue to work at home.
The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathanial Hawthorne
Write a synonym for the underlined word.
______________________1.Children, with bright faces, tripped merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes.
______________________2. When the throng had mostly streamed into the porch, the sexton began to toll the bell.
______________________3. Mr. Hooper…was dressed with due clerical neatness…and brushed the weekly dust from his clerical garb.
______________________4. Swathed around his forehead, Mr. Hooper had a black veil.
______________________5. There was a general bustle…But Mr. Hooper appeared not to notice the perturbation of the people.
______________________6. Each member of the congregation…felt as if the preacher had crept upon them…and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or thought.
______________________7. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe.
______________________8. A few shook their sagacious heads, intimating that they could penetrate the mystery.
______________________ 9. …he paid reverence to the hoary heads, saluted the middle age…and greeted the young with mingled authority and love, and laid his hands on the little children’s heads to bless them.
______________________10. It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes.
______________________11. He never lacked advisers…yet not individual among his parishioners chose to make the black veil a subject of friendly remonstrance.
______________________12. As his plighted wife, it should be her privilege to know what the black veil concealed.
______________________13. And with this gentle, but unconquerable obstinacy did he resist all he entreaties.
______________________14. But there was the grave seeking only to mitigate the last pangs of the patient whom he could not save.
______________________15. Father Hooper snatched both his hands from beneath the bedclothes, resolute to struggle, if the minister of Westbury would contend with a dying man.
Words whose usage for which you are responsible.
1. gait (noun)
2. throng (noun)
3. garb (noun)
4. swathed (adjective)
5. perturbation (noun)
6. iniquity (noun)
7. pathos (noun)
8. sagacious (adjective)
9. hoary (adjective)
10. imbued (adjective)
11. remonstrance
12. plighted (adjective)
13. obstinacy (noun)
14. mitigate (verb)
15. resolute (adjective)
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