Okay - so I'm stuck in purgatory... I mean Ketchikan, so here is what I want you to do today:
LEARNING GOAL: RL9 - read and discuss classical literature of the 19th century. Determine a theme of a text.
Today's Objective: Look at the imagery and major symbol presented in chapter 1 of Scarlet Letter and determine a theme from what it represents. Note - pay close attention to titles.
What you'll do:
Begin THE SCARLET LETTER. Read chapter 1 as a group and
discuss the symbolic nature of the chapter. One of the major themes of
the book is set up here. Post a 1-paragraph interpretation of this
symbol - its meaning. The books are on my desk. Note, you will being dialectical journals on THE SCARLET LETTER this week, but I want to explain the process to you. If you know the process you might begin to mark things to discuss in your dialectical entries. As always, if you have major problems (as Hawthorne is dense and does write in symbols) look at SHMOOP, but only after you've read the chapter and discussed it.
Lastly, if you finish this begin to review AMERICAN ROMANTIC LITERATURE:
1) The Fireside Poets (Longfellow)
2) The Transcendentalists (Emerson and Thoreau)
3) The Fiction Writers (Poe, Hawthorne - but also Melville and Washington Irving)
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