English IV
09/28 - Journals; Arthurian Legend Webquest; Vocabulary Assignment
HW: Vocabulary; Conduct GP Primary Research (INTERVIEW!)
09/29 - Journals; Vocabulary Check; Media Day
HW: Continue with GP; Test Review
09/30 - Journals; Turn in final notecards, outline, and introductory paragraph; Unit Test II review; Vocabulary Review
HW: Test Review
10/01 - Journals Due; Unit Test II
HW: Continue with GP
10/02 - Journals; Vocabulary Quiz Week 6; Folk ballad study (text pp. 194-200)
Due Dates on the Horizon:
10/07 - Graduation Project Research Paper First Draft
10/09 - Graduation Project Research Paper First Draft Due to Advisor
10/16 - Graduation Project Research Paper Final Draft
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
English IV Vocabulary Week 6
1. deftly (p. 167) -
2. faltered -
3. quailed (p. 168) -
4. dais -
5. doughty -
6. enterprise (p. 169) -
7. mantled (p. 170) -
8. tryst -
9. parley -
10. stinted (p. 171) -
11. proffered -
12. feigned -
13. adroitly (p. 172) -
14. acquits (p. 173) -
15. throng (p. 175) -
2. faltered -
3. quailed (p. 168) -
4. dais -
5. doughty -
6. enterprise (p. 169) -
7. mantled (p. 170) -
8. tryst -
9. parley -
10. stinted (p. 171) -
11. proffered -
12. feigned -
13. adroitly (p. 172) -
14. acquits (p. 173) -
15. throng (p. 175) -
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The Week in English: Week 5
English IV
09/21: Journals; Intro to Canterbury Tales; Prologue Quiz; Research Paper Card Completion; Vocabulary Assignment
HW: Read pp. 122-133; Complete Vocabulary; 40 Note Cards due 09/22
09/22: Journals; Vocabulary Check; "The Pardoner's Tale" quiz; Characterization in The Canterbury Tales
HW: Read pp. 136-155
09/23: Journals; Vocabulary Review; Research Paper Outline Help
HW: Read pp. 160-169
09/24: Journals Due; Sir Gawain Quiz; Canterbury Tales wrap-up
HW: Read pp. 169-175
09/25: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Sir Gawain Study
HW: Prepare for Notecards/Outline/Thesis Statement due 09/30
English 3
09/21: Journals; TSL Test Review; Card Completion
HW: Finish the Crucible
09/22: Journals; Crucible Quiz; Crucible film part I
HW: Finish Revolutionary Packet
09/23: Journals; SAT Practice; Crucible film part II; Crucible conclusion
HW: Read Emerson materials
09/24: Journals Due; Transcendentalism WebQuest
HW: Read Thoreau materials
09/25: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Emerson/Thoreau study
HW: Prepare for Research Paper Outline and 1st Paragraph due 10/07
09/21: Journals; Intro to Canterbury Tales; Prologue Quiz; Research Paper Card Completion; Vocabulary Assignment
HW: Read pp. 122-133; Complete Vocabulary; 40 Note Cards due 09/22
09/22: Journals; Vocabulary Check; "The Pardoner's Tale" quiz; Characterization in The Canterbury Tales
HW: Read pp. 136-155
09/23: Journals; Vocabulary Review; Research Paper Outline Help
HW: Read pp. 160-169
09/24: Journals Due; Sir Gawain Quiz; Canterbury Tales wrap-up
HW: Read pp. 169-175
09/25: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Sir Gawain Study
HW: Prepare for Notecards/Outline/Thesis Statement due 09/30
English 3
09/21: Journals; TSL Test Review; Card Completion
HW: Finish the Crucible
09/22: Journals; Crucible Quiz; Crucible film part I
HW: Finish Revolutionary Packet
09/23: Journals; SAT Practice; Crucible film part II; Crucible conclusion
HW: Read Emerson materials
09/24: Journals Due; Transcendentalism WebQuest
HW: Read Thoreau materials
09/25: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Emerson/Thoreau study
HW: Prepare for Research Paper Outline and 1st Paragraph due 10/07
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
A Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury
You will soon be embarking on a journey from Chaucer’s London to the Cathedral at Canterbury. Before you leave, however, you must first learn a bit about the English towns of the Medieval period. Your first stop is designed to give you general information about town and city life in the Middle Ages.
Go to the following link to begin your journey.
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Townlife.htm
Use the link to answer the following questions.
1. What new social class emerged during this time?
2. Who controlled the trade?
3. How long was a typical apprenticeship?
4. Explain one condition under which a serf could become a free man.
5. How were the streets built?
6. In London, where are the original Roman streets?
7. What animals did many people keep, and why was this a problem?
8. What was the punishment for a thief?
9. Under what conditions could a fugitive receive sanctuary?
10. What was the curfew, and what were the actual implications?
11. Describe the market and the people who went there.
Now, find out specific information about London at the following link.
http://www.britainexpress.com/London/medieval-london.htm
1. Where and when was William the Conqueror crowned?
2. What great edifice did William build as the first royal residence?
3. What and where was the second great historical building he had constructed?
4. What was the population of London in the early 12th century, and how did that compare with Roman London?
5. When was the first stone London Bridge built?
6. Why was a law passed in the 13th century requiring that all houses have slate roofs?
7. What was the source for many street names?
8. What happened to the Fleet River?
Next, go to the following site to see a map of London around Chaucer’s time.
http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/image/England/london/General/mainlondon.html
Note the relative size of the city. Note the historical buildings. Feel free to look at any of the links on the map as you have time, but our focus here will be on the Tower of London.
Before you click on the Tower link, locate the Tabard Inn.
Where is it?
Click on the Tower of London link.
1. Who built the White Tower and when?
2. Which parts of the Tower complex were under construction during Chaucer’s time?
3. Estimate about what percentage of the Tower complex had been completed by the time Chaucer died.
Now, for some actual pictures. You will be seeing buildings that were around during Chaucer’s time OVER SIX HUNDRED YEARS AGO!!!!!!.
These buildings have some significance to Chaucer’s life.
Look at them and be amazed!!
Link to site below: (Note: this is an archived site, so some graphics may not display)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040202103520/http://www.umkc.edu/lib/engelond/visual.htm
Explore Chaucer’s world and answer the questions below. Note: the site originally had more graphics, so you may not be able to answer all questions.
1. Where is Bootham Bar, and why is a picture of it included on our tour?
2. Estimate the width of the street in the Shambles.
3. What was the specific location of Chaucer’s childhood home? Did it survive into the 20th century?
4. Near what famous landmark did the Tabard Inn stand?
5. When was the George Inn built?
6. Look at all of the images of Westminster Abbey. What is an abbey?
7. What was the Chapter House, and what part of it remains from Chaucer’s time?
8. Where is Chaucer’s tomb? Where was it originally?
9. Look at Westminster Hall. What was Chaucer paid as a clerk?
10. What important building project did he oversee?
11. Who built the Temple Church and when? Look at the larger image of it.
12. What was the model for Chaucer’s Knight? How large does the statue seem to be?
13. What London landmark would Chaucer have passed going to and from work?
Now, on to your destination. As you look at the images, try to imagine how old they are. Try to imagine standing in the cathedral. Awesome!!!
The Canterbury Cathedral
http://www.loyno.edu/~letchie/becket/tour/default.htm (This appears to be a dead link; use the archived site below. Some graphics are missing, but many are present, and the text is intact.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20021217004814/www.loyno.edu/~letchie/becket/tour/tour.htm
1. Where is Becket’s tomb?
2. Which kings have made the pilgrimage and why?
3. Click on “Start Tour” and go through the stops one-by-one.
4. When was the church founded?
5. When were the nave, the quire, and the eastern end built?
6. During the Middle Ages, where would pilgrims have entered the cathedral?
7. Whoa, this is BIG! How many bays are in the nave?
8. Specifically, where was Becket murdered?
9. What is the significance of the white pavement?
10. Who designed the quire?
11. Was the Bell Harry Tower around in Chaucer’s time?
12. Specifically, where was Becket’s shrine during Chaucer’s time? Why isn’t it there anymore?
13. What is depicted in the windows?
14. Why were there holes in the outer covering of the shrine?
15. What other shrine lies near the site of Becket’s shrine? Did this exist in Chaucer’s time?
16. Where is the Water Tower?
17. Describe the Monks’ Infirmary.
18. What artifact depicts Becket’s murder?
more pics of the cathedral
http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/zatta/canterbury.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~hanly/chaucer/canterbury.html
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/canterbury/canterbury.shtml
http://www.request.org.uk/main/churches/tours/canterbury/tour.htm
http://www.clicksandclicks.co.uk/cant-cathedral-tour.htm
http://www.kentresources.co.uk/cc.htm
http://www.hillside.co.uk/arch/cathedral/nave.html
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/the-timeline-of-britain/canterbury-cathedral.htm
Thanks to Ms. Thornhill for putting together this guide.
Go to the following link to begin your journey.
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Townlife.htm
Use the link to answer the following questions.
1. What new social class emerged during this time?
2. Who controlled the trade?
3. How long was a typical apprenticeship?
4. Explain one condition under which a serf could become a free man.
5. How were the streets built?
6. In London, where are the original Roman streets?
7. What animals did many people keep, and why was this a problem?
8. What was the punishment for a thief?
9. Under what conditions could a fugitive receive sanctuary?
10. What was the curfew, and what were the actual implications?
11. Describe the market and the people who went there.
Now, find out specific information about London at the following link.
http://www.britainexpress.com/London/medieval-london.htm
1. Where and when was William the Conqueror crowned?
2. What great edifice did William build as the first royal residence?
3. What and where was the second great historical building he had constructed?
4. What was the population of London in the early 12th century, and how did that compare with Roman London?
5. When was the first stone London Bridge built?
6. Why was a law passed in the 13th century requiring that all houses have slate roofs?
7. What was the source for many street names?
8. What happened to the Fleet River?
Next, go to the following site to see a map of London around Chaucer’s time.
http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/image/England/london/General/mainlondon.html
Note the relative size of the city. Note the historical buildings. Feel free to look at any of the links on the map as you have time, but our focus here will be on the Tower of London.
Before you click on the Tower link, locate the Tabard Inn.
Where is it?
Click on the Tower of London link.
1. Who built the White Tower and when?
2. Which parts of the Tower complex were under construction during Chaucer’s time?
3. Estimate about what percentage of the Tower complex had been completed by the time Chaucer died.
Now, for some actual pictures. You will be seeing buildings that were around during Chaucer’s time OVER SIX HUNDRED YEARS AGO!!!!!!.
These buildings have some significance to Chaucer’s life.
Look at them and be amazed!!
Link to site below: (Note: this is an archived site, so some graphics may not display)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040202103520/http://www.umkc.edu/lib/engelond/visual.htm
Explore Chaucer’s world and answer the questions below. Note: the site originally had more graphics, so you may not be able to answer all questions.
1. Where is Bootham Bar, and why is a picture of it included on our tour?
2. Estimate the width of the street in the Shambles.
3. What was the specific location of Chaucer’s childhood home? Did it survive into the 20th century?
4. Near what famous landmark did the Tabard Inn stand?
5. When was the George Inn built?
6. Look at all of the images of Westminster Abbey. What is an abbey?
7. What was the Chapter House, and what part of it remains from Chaucer’s time?
8. Where is Chaucer’s tomb? Where was it originally?
9. Look at Westminster Hall. What was Chaucer paid as a clerk?
10. What important building project did he oversee?
11. Who built the Temple Church and when? Look at the larger image of it.
12. What was the model for Chaucer’s Knight? How large does the statue seem to be?
13. What London landmark would Chaucer have passed going to and from work?
Now, on to your destination. As you look at the images, try to imagine how old they are. Try to imagine standing in the cathedral. Awesome!!!
The Canterbury Cathedral
http://www.loyno.edu/~letchie/becket/tour/default.htm (This appears to be a dead link; use the archived site below. Some graphics are missing, but many are present, and the text is intact.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20021217004814/www.loyno.edu/~letchie/becket/tour/tour.htm
1. Where is Becket’s tomb?
2. Which kings have made the pilgrimage and why?
3. Click on “Start Tour” and go through the stops one-by-one.
4. When was the church founded?
5. When were the nave, the quire, and the eastern end built?
6. During the Middle Ages, where would pilgrims have entered the cathedral?
7. Whoa, this is BIG! How many bays are in the nave?
8. Specifically, where was Becket murdered?
9. What is the significance of the white pavement?
10. Who designed the quire?
11. Was the Bell Harry Tower around in Chaucer’s time?
12. Specifically, where was Becket’s shrine during Chaucer’s time? Why isn’t it there anymore?
13. What is depicted in the windows?
14. Why were there holes in the outer covering of the shrine?
15. What other shrine lies near the site of Becket’s shrine? Did this exist in Chaucer’s time?
16. Where is the Water Tower?
17. Describe the Monks’ Infirmary.
18. What artifact depicts Becket’s murder?
more pics of the cathedral
http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/zatta/canterbury.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~hanly/chaucer/canterbury.html
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/canterbury/canterbury.shtml
http://www.request.org.uk/main/churches/tours/canterbury/tour.htm
http://www.clicksandclicks.co.uk/cant-cathedral-tour.htm
http://www.kentresources.co.uk/cc.htm
http://www.hillside.co.uk/arch/cathedral/nave.html
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/the-timeline-of-britain/canterbury-cathedral.htm
Thanks to Ms. Thornhill for putting together this guide.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Week in English: Week 3
English IV
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson; Vocab Assignment
Homework: Vocabulary Homework Week 3; Read pp. 76-82
09/09: Journals; MLA format quiz; Vocab check; Media Center Trip
Homework: 76-82
09/10: Journals Due; MLA format quiz; Vocabulary Review; Loose ends on Beowulf; Beowulf film completion
Homework: 76-82
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Venerable Bede writing study
Homework: continue research
English 3:
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson
Homework: Finish TSL
09/09: Journals; Vocabulary check; Loose ends on TSL; Crucible Text Assignment
Homework: Read The Crucible Act I by 09/14
09/10: Journals Due; TSL Test
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Test; Intro to Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson; Vocab Assignment
Homework: Vocabulary Homework Week 3; Read pp. 76-82
09/09: Journals; MLA format quiz; Vocab check; Media Center Trip
Homework: 76-82
09/10: Journals Due; MLA format quiz; Vocabulary Review; Loose ends on Beowulf; Beowulf film completion
Homework: 76-82
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Venerable Bede writing study
Homework: continue research
English 3:
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson
Homework: Finish TSL
09/09: Journals; Vocabulary check; Loose ends on TSL; Crucible Text Assignment
Homework: Read The Crucible Act I by 09/14
09/10: Journals Due; TSL Test
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Test; Intro to Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism
English 3 Research Paper Assignment
You must submit a term paper that counts as a second-term test grade. The object of the final paper is to get you to think about how your high school experience compares with the "real world.” Using what you know, write a 4 to 6 page paper on a topic of your choice. The topic must be related to your post-high school interests, but there are no other limitations. My suggestion is to take a specific issue or question that you have encountered and conduct further research on it. For example, if you are interested in the public defender's office, looking at whether poor clients accused of minor crimes are given adequate legal services is an appropriate topic. You would go about doing this paper by doing some outside research on the public defender system and then relating your experiences to this research. The best way to approach this paper is to begin with a question, and answer it after researching the topic.
You are encouraged to make explicit links between classes you have taken here at Northwood, although the paper itself may not be from another class. Also, this paper should not be a simple description of what you have done in a class; this is a research paper, and it should deal with academic subjects.
You must decide on your research question by our _______________________ class meeting. Please bring a typed copy of your research question. I will collect these, and we will discuss them in class. If you have any questions or are unsure about the topic, please don’t hesitate to come see me to discuss options.
Paper mechanics:
1. You must include four “outside" sources, such as books and articles from academic journals. These can be materials that were assigned in other classes, or you can do additional library research. At least one of your academic citations must be a book or academic journal article. In other words, you cannot have four websites as your four citations. Be sure to make appropriate citations on all works cited, using MLA. Your citations should be attached to your paper. Reminder: You must give me four academic citations by _________________________________.
2. The paper should be 4-6 pages long (this is a minimum of 4 FULL pages, not “three and a line”).
3. Your paper must be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman or similar font. It should follow all normal essay writing requirements (i.e., be sure to have a thesis statement and supporting evidence).
4. Due: ____________________________ at 3:00pm. I will be in my classroom (917) to collect these. If you'd like to turn it in early, by all means do so. I will not be able to read late papers in time to give you a grade.
You are encouraged to make explicit links between classes you have taken here at Northwood, although the paper itself may not be from another class. Also, this paper should not be a simple description of what you have done in a class; this is a research paper, and it should deal with academic subjects.
You must decide on your research question by our _______________________ class meeting. Please bring a typed copy of your research question. I will collect these, and we will discuss them in class. If you have any questions or are unsure about the topic, please don’t hesitate to come see me to discuss options.
Paper mechanics:
1. You must include four “outside" sources, such as books and articles from academic journals. These can be materials that were assigned in other classes, or you can do additional library research. At least one of your academic citations must be a book or academic journal article. In other words, you cannot have four websites as your four citations. Be sure to make appropriate citations on all works cited, using MLA. Your citations should be attached to your paper. Reminder: You must give me four academic citations by _________________________________.
2. The paper should be 4-6 pages long (this is a minimum of 4 FULL pages, not “three and a line”).
3. Your paper must be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman or similar font. It should follow all normal essay writing requirements (i.e., be sure to have a thesis statement and supporting evidence).
4. Due: ____________________________ at 3:00pm. I will be in my classroom (917) to collect these. If you'd like to turn it in early, by all means do so. I will not be able to read late papers in time to give you a grade.
MLA Laptop Lesson
Go to the web site listed below to answer the questions on this handout. You will want to bookmark the site on the ibooks, and you should also make note of the site for your own future use. This is absolutely the most helpful and comprehensive tool for writing that I have ever seen. Thanks, Purdue!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
1. What are the correct margins for a paper?
2. Do you include a title page for your paper?
3. What information is at the top left corner of the first page?
4. Is the title of your own paper underlined?
5. What words will be at the top of your Works Cited page?
6. Are they underlined?
7. Does the author’s name always have to appear in the parentheses when you use parenthetical citation?
8. Explain the rules for deciding whether the author’s name will be in the parentheses.
9. When you use direct quotations in a paper, are the parentheses for the citation inside the quotation marks?
10. What about the period at the end of a sentence, or a comma? Where are they – before or after the parentheses?
11. When is a quotation indented?
12. Do you use quotation marks for indented quotations?
13. Are indented quotations single- or double-spaced?
14. Are entries on the Works Cited page single- or double-spaced between entries? Within entries?
15. How are the entries on the WC page arranged?
16. Are book/selection titles on the WC page underlined, italicized, or put in quotations?
17. How is an author’s name recorded?
18. On your own paper, create Works Cited entries for your edition of Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. You will want to scroll down the page to see what information you need, and the correct format.
When you are finished with these questions and your two WC entries, go to the Diana Hacker web site.
http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html
This part of the site is specific to writing about the humanities, including literature.
Click on Manuscript Format
1. Where does Hacker tell you to put the page number?
2. What other information should be with the page number?
3. What are the margins?
Go to MLA in-text documentation.
1. What is the best way to indicate the author of a quote?
2. What is an alternate method?
3. How do you attribute an unknown author’s work?
4. How do you typically cite a work from an anthology?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
1. What are the correct margins for a paper?
2. Do you include a title page for your paper?
3. What information is at the top left corner of the first page?
4. Is the title of your own paper underlined?
5. What words will be at the top of your Works Cited page?
6. Are they underlined?
7. Does the author’s name always have to appear in the parentheses when you use parenthetical citation?
8. Explain the rules for deciding whether the author’s name will be in the parentheses.
9. When you use direct quotations in a paper, are the parentheses for the citation inside the quotation marks?
10. What about the period at the end of a sentence, or a comma? Where are they – before or after the parentheses?
11. When is a quotation indented?
12. Do you use quotation marks for indented quotations?
13. Are indented quotations single- or double-spaced?
14. Are entries on the Works Cited page single- or double-spaced between entries? Within entries?
15. How are the entries on the WC page arranged?
16. Are book/selection titles on the WC page underlined, italicized, or put in quotations?
17. How is an author’s name recorded?
18. On your own paper, create Works Cited entries for your edition of Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. You will want to scroll down the page to see what information you need, and the correct format.
When you are finished with these questions and your two WC entries, go to the Diana Hacker web site.
http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html
This part of the site is specific to writing about the humanities, including literature.
Click on Manuscript Format
1. Where does Hacker tell you to put the page number?
2. What other information should be with the page number?
3. What are the margins?
Go to MLA in-text documentation.
1. What is the best way to indicate the author of a quote?
2. What is an alternate method?
3. How do you attribute an unknown author’s work?
4. How do you typically cite a work from an anthology?
Monday, September 7, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
The Week In English: Week 2
English IV
08/31
Anglo-Saxon Poetry Composition; Vocabulary Assignment
Homework: Read pp. 44-50, "Unferth's Taunt" handout; Vocab Homework 2
09/01
Vocab Check; Reading Quiz; Grendel Storyboarding
Homework: Read pp. 51-62
09/02
Grendel Storyboarding cont.; Beowulf film comparison; Vocabulary Review
Homework: Read pp. 51-62
09/03
Reading Quiz; Beowulf film cont.
Homework: Read pp. 76-82
09/04
Vocabulary Quiz; Beowulf film cont.
English 3
08/31
Tracing Symbols and Motifs in TSL
Homework: TSL ch. 10-12
09/01
Reading Quiz; Symbolism cont.; Character in TSL
Homework: TSL ch. 13-15
09/02
SAT Practice; Character cont.; Test Review; TSL Study Guide
Homework: TSL ch. 16-18
09/03
Reading Quiz; TSL Guide cont.
Homework: TSL ch. 19-21
09/04
Vocabulary Quiz; General themes in TSL; Practice commentary
Homework: TSL ch. 22-24
08/31
Anglo-Saxon Poetry Composition; Vocabulary Assignment
Homework: Read pp. 44-50, "Unferth's Taunt" handout; Vocab Homework 2
09/01
Vocab Check; Reading Quiz; Grendel Storyboarding
Homework: Read pp. 51-62
09/02
Grendel Storyboarding cont.; Beowulf film comparison; Vocabulary Review
Homework: Read pp. 51-62
09/03
Reading Quiz; Beowulf film cont.
Homework: Read pp. 76-82
09/04
Vocabulary Quiz; Beowulf film cont.
English 3
08/31
Tracing Symbols and Motifs in TSL
Homework: TSL ch. 10-12
09/01
Reading Quiz; Symbolism cont.; Character in TSL
Homework: TSL ch. 13-15
09/02
SAT Practice; Character cont.; Test Review; TSL Study Guide
Homework: TSL ch. 16-18
09/03
Reading Quiz; TSL Guide cont.
Homework: TSL ch. 19-21
09/04
Vocabulary Quiz; General themes in TSL; Practice commentary
Homework: TSL ch. 22-24
The Scarlet Letter Test Guide
Part I: For 15 of the following 20 quotes, name the speaker and context and briefly comment on its (thematic, symbolic) significance to the novel as a whole. Number your paper according to the numbering below.
“The founders of the new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, burst forth the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.”
“There was no one place so secret, -no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me, -save on this very scaffold!”
“Thou knowest that I was frank with thee! That I felt no love nor feigned any.”
“Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
“She turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes! – these were her realities.”
“It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side. But he will be known!- he will be known!”
“I have sought, I say, to persuade this godly youth, that he should deal with you, here in the face of Heaven, and before these upright rulers…Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use.”
“The responsibility of this woman’s soul lies greatly with you.”
“Thou hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy on which I found thee. The reason is not far to seek. It was my folly, and thy weakness.”
“Though he were to step down from a high place and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life.”
7. “What should ail me, to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good: and were it my child, - yea, mine own, as well as thine, I could do no better for it!”
8. “Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and her should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
9. “Hush, Pearl, hush! Thou must not talk so…He sent us all in this world. He sent even me, thy mother. Them, much more, thee! Or, if not, thy strange and elfish child, whence didst thou come?"
10. “And here, by a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom, up to this moment, she had seemed hardly so much as once to direct her eyes, - “Speak thou for me!”
“Thou tallest of running a race to a man whose knees are tottering beneath him! I must die here! There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world alone.”
11. “Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I wellnigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one.”
“It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life! as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form had carefully wrought out the similitude.”
“This idea was countenanced by the strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner, and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence from his naturally reserved sensibility.”
13. “Come away mother! Come away or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already!”
14. “Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide?”
15. “Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena, that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of a sun and mood, as so many revelations from a supernatural source.”
16. “Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
17. “He betrayed me! He has done me more wrong than I did him!”
18. “Hereupon, Pearl broke away from her mother, and, running to the brook, stooped over it, and bathed her forehead, until the unwelcome kiss was quite washed off.”
19. “But in the sunny day, and among all the people, he knows us not; nor must we know him! A strange, sad man is he.”
20. “It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tombstone served for both.”
“The founders of the new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, burst forth the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.”
“There was no one place so secret, -no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me, -save on this very scaffold!”
“Thou knowest that I was frank with thee! That I felt no love nor feigned any.”
“Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
“She turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes! – these were her realities.”
“It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side. But he will be known!- he will be known!”
“I have sought, I say, to persuade this godly youth, that he should deal with you, here in the face of Heaven, and before these upright rulers…Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use.”
“The responsibility of this woman’s soul lies greatly with you.”
“Thou hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy on which I found thee. The reason is not far to seek. It was my folly, and thy weakness.”
“Though he were to step down from a high place and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life.”
7. “What should ail me, to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good: and were it my child, - yea, mine own, as well as thine, I could do no better for it!”
8. “Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and her should be the scene of her earthly punishment.”
9. “Hush, Pearl, hush! Thou must not talk so…He sent us all in this world. He sent even me, thy mother. Them, much more, thee! Or, if not, thy strange and elfish child, whence didst thou come?"
10. “And here, by a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom, up to this moment, she had seemed hardly so much as once to direct her eyes, - “Speak thou for me!”
“Thou tallest of running a race to a man whose knees are tottering beneath him! I must die here! There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world alone.”
11. “Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I wellnigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one.”
“It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life! as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form had carefully wrought out the similitude.”
“This idea was countenanced by the strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner, and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence from his naturally reserved sensibility.”
13. “Come away mother! Come away or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already!”
14. “Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide?”
15. “Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena, that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of a sun and mood, as so many revelations from a supernatural source.”
16. “Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
17. “He betrayed me! He has done me more wrong than I did him!”
18. “Hereupon, Pearl broke away from her mother, and, running to the brook, stooped over it, and bathed her forehead, until the unwelcome kiss was quite washed off.”
19. “But in the sunny day, and among all the people, he knows us not; nor must we know him! A strange, sad man is he.”
20. “It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tombstone served for both.”
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