Read The Scarlet Letter and complete the following and submit on the first day of classes, Monday, January 7, 2013.
Write three talking points each for Chapters Three through Chapter Twenty-Four; must be complete sentences; no quoted material accepted if it is not accompanied by an explanation (see below for acceptable samples); number the talking points and write neatly or type
Unacceptable:
"Pearl, do not cast thy shadow near the brook and stay close where you can hear me."
Acceptable:
Hawthorne is providing a hint of Hester's love for her daughter when she tells Pearl "do not cast thy shadow near the brook and stay close where you can hear me."
Define the following vocabulary from the chapters listed and submit that work on January 7, 2013:
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VOCABULARY FOR The
Scarlet Letter
Chapter One: (completed in class)(use the root word to define words using "ly," "ing," "un" endings or beginnings)
Chapter Two: countenance;
remonstrance; ignominy; phantasmagoric
Chapter Three: visage, iniquity, sagacity
Chapter Four: efficacy
Chapter Five: progenitors, emolument, incredulity
Chapter Six: enmity
Chapter Seven: caprice, imperious, extant, exigencies
Chapter Eight: indefeasible
Chapter Nine: appellation, pious
Chapter Ten: inimical, askance, penitential, self-abasement,
imbued, palliate, somniferous
Chapter Eleven: odious, antipathy, presentiments,
machinations, preternatural, abstruse, ethereal, undissembled
Chapter Twelve: conjectural, decorous
Chapter Thirteen: despotic, benign, effluence, obviated
Chapter Fourteen: propinquity, usurping
Chapter Fifteen: sedulous, deleterious, luxuriance, petulant
Chapter Sixteen: vivacity, loquacity
Chapter Seventeen: misanthropy
Chapter Eighteen: colloquy
Chapter Nineteen: inured, mollified
Chapter Twenty: vicissitude, importunately, obtrusive,
obeisance
Chapter Twenty-One: languor, jocularity, depredations,
probity, animadversion
Chapter Twenty-Two: eminence, necromancy, undulating,
indefatigable
Chapter Twenty-Three: mien
We will be working with a Hawthorne short story, "Young Goodman Brown" when we return in January; here is a link to the online literature selection:
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/158/
We will be working with a Hawthorne short story, "Young Goodman Brown" when we return in January; here is a link to the online literature selection:
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/158/
