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The Scarlet Letter

Objectives: Read chapter

Summarize chapter for class

Answer the questions

Present your summary and answers to the questions to your class

Create a quiz for your classmates to take

Grade the quiz and turn in to me

Materials: Visual

Due Dates: Monday/ Tuesday

Assessment: Oct. 13-14: You will fill out a rubric and I will assign you a quiz grade on the way you work with your group: 2 quiz grades

Test Grade: Your presentation: Length 5 min, Visual, Quiz, Presentation of summary/questions, are your classmates engaged? Was everyone in your group involved in the presentation

Chapter 14 and 15 Bradley, Elizabeth, Sierra, Lynsley

1. What change in Chillingworth’s appearance does Hester notice when she stops to speak to him?

2. Hester and Chillingworth each pity each other. For what does he say e pities Hester and for what does Hester pity him?

3. What gesture of the Reverend Dimmesdale’s does Pearl repeatedly associate with her mother’s scarlet letter?

Chapters 15 and 16 Shaday, Dustin, Katelyn, Jesse

1. What are Hester’s reasons for not wanting to visit Dimmesdale in his own study?

2. Why does Pearl tell Hester “the sunshine does not love you?”

3. What is Dimmesdale’s initial reaction when Hester reveals Chillingworth’s true identity?

4. Hester urges Dimmesdale to leave Boston and begin a new life. What possibilities does she suggest for his future career?

Chapters 17 and 18 Charles, Kendra, Michael Stone, Taylor

1. Why is Hester better prepared to make the decision to go away than Dimmesdale is?

2. In the paragraph beginning “Thus, we seem to see…,” what reasons does Hawthorne set forth that might lead Dimmesdale to flee with Hester?

3. When Pearl demands that Hester put the scarlet letter on her dress again, does she pick it up and take it to her mother?

4. When Hester has replaced the scarlet letter, Pearl kisses her. Immediately thereafter, Pearl does something that causes Hester to say…”That was not kind!” To what action is Hester referring

Chapters 19 Dustin, Cynthia, and Raman

1. Where have Hester and Dimmesdale decided to go when they leave Boston? Why do they choose to go to Europe rather than remain in the New World?

2. How does it happen that Hester is acquainted with the captain of the ship now in the harbor?

3. Why does Dimmesdale consider it fortunate that the ship is not to sail for four days? When Mistress Hibbins offers to introduce Dimmesdale to “yonder potentate you wot of,” to whom is she referring?

Chapters 20 and 21 Elliot, Trey, Lauren, David

1. What have the crowds of people gathered in the market-place to witness?

2. Of what ceremony in England was the Electoin Day pageantry a pale imitation?

3. What piece of unwelcome news does the master of the ship on which she, Pearl, and Dimmesdale are to sail for Hester?

4. What is particularly noticeable about Dimmesdale’s manner as he walks in the procession?

5. Where does Hester stand during the procession and during Di mesdale’s sermon in the church?

Chapters 23 and 24 Justin, Michelle, Quinton, Trent

1. How does Dimmesdale appear as he leaves the church after his triumphant sermon?

2. How does Pearl react when Dimmesdale calls Hester and herself to mount the scaffold with him?

3. Where, according to Chillingworth, is the one place where Dimmesdale could have successfully escaped him?

4. What were some of the conjectures made by parishioners as to the origins of the minister’s scarlet letter?

5. What explanation for the events of Election Day is made by the minister’s friends to make him seem blameless?

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