Welcome to ENH 241!

Bloom's Taxonomy Handout - This is the handout you need to create questions for our Socratic Seminars.

Native American Experience (2009) - Don't forget this can ONLY replace your first response paper! You are NOT required to do this! It is just an extra opportunity!

The Response Paper Overview w/Example

Want to get ahead? You may want to purchase your own copy of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. We will begin working with the novel within the first three weeks of school. So, the earlier you get it the better! Purchasing the novel is NOT a requirement, but it will make your life much easier as you are reading and completing the assignments that will go along with the novel. Any standard edition is fine - there are quite a few out there! The version I prefer is:

The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics Series)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kathryn Harrison (Introduction)
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date: September 2000
ISBN-13: 9780679783381

The cover looks like this: AA:

The reason I prefer this version is because of the extensive notes that are added to help with comprehension of the novel! It also includes some great commentary that also helps with understanding! You can buy your copy of the novel very inexpensively! You do not need to start reading the novel - just have it available to you! If you prefer to check a copy out from me, you may do that. If you have any questions, please just ask!

The Scarlet Letter Socratic Seminar Make-Up Questions (from 10/29/09)

Each question should be answered in detail and each response should be 3-4 sentences each.
1. What would have happened if Dimmesdale initially revealed his role as Pearl¢â¡Ás father? Would the town shun him as well? Explain what you think would happen.
2. Based on what you know, how would you explain Hester¢â¡Ás behavior towards the people who treat her badly?
3. Why do you think Dimmesdale confessed his sin in third person by describing his sin in third person by describing as though it were another person that committed it?
4. What motive is there for Chillingsworth to keep his true identity a secret? How would the story have been different if he immediately announced who he was when he first saw Hester?
5. What choice would you have made if you were in Chillingworth¢â¡Ás position?
6. What would have happened to Hester if she didn¢â¡Át have Pearl? Would the society still judge Hester or would Hester continue to sin and rebel against society?
7. For Hester, do you believe Pearl was really a blessing and not a curse? Explain.
8. Why do you think Hester dressed Pearl in the finest clothes and herself in dull colors?
9. What choice would you have made if you were Hester, move or stay in Boston? Why?
10. What is your opinion about the way Chillingsworth died?

Important Links and Readings:

Native American Literature

Black Elk - "Life is a Circle"
You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance. Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children.

Looking for a visual representation of the Life is a Circle piece? Here is one: Black Elk Speaks

"The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)"

Puritan Literature

The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton

"Huswifery" by Edward Taylor

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" A Sermon by Jonathan Edwards

Huswifery and the Conceit

Anne Bradstreet Poetry

Colonial and Revolutionary Period Literature

"from The American Crisis: Number 1"

"from Common Sense: On the Origin and Design of Government in General"

"Ben Franklin's Virtues"

"To His Excellency General Washington" by Phillis Wheatley

"Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March - 5 April 1776"

"Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1776"

Anne Hutchinson Links:
http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/11/anne-hutchinson.html
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/womeninfln/hutchinson.htm
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-30-2006-107048.asp

Romanticism

"Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter 1: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity "

"Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter 7: The Mother's Struggle "

Uncle Tom's Cabin Readings (Both Chapters Ready to Be Printed Out)

Hawthorne Project Story Links:

"Young Goodman Brown"

"The Minister's Black Veil"

"The Birthmark"

"The Artist of the Beautiful"

"Rappaccini's Daughter"

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

Hawthorne Readings - This is a word document with all of readings (except for "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" since we gave that to you) for the Hawthorne project. You do NOT have to print this out! I just have it available in case you want to! I left it as a word document since some of you wanted to have bigger margins so you can annotate the stories. Warning: When printed it is roughly 37 pages! Keep this in mind before you hint print!!! If you do print it out, print at home, not school!

Helpful Links for your Hathorne Project:
Microsoft ClipArt: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx
Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.com/Home.aspx

Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories and Poetry

"Sonnet--To Science"

"To Helen"

"Israfel"

"The City in the Sea"

"Sonnet--Silence"

"Annabel Lee"

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/Lenore.html