APEnglish–Los Al

• All our old worksheets and essay were being handed back
  • FYI:
    • Online Quizzes have yet to be rescored
    • The Scarlet Letter Quizzes may not be all entered
    • Missing Book Review can lower a grade 10%
    • !! All LATE work may be turned in the day we come back from Winter Break !!
• We discuss what our class will be doing when we come back from winter break
  • Focus on 17th Century writing
  • At the end of January, we have our FINAL (nooo..)
• Until the end of class, we discussed The Scarlet Letter
  • P. 167-168 (B&NC edition)
    • Hester forgets about her past, and sins when she takes the scarlet letter off her dress
    • Her guilt is able to be taken off (her guilt was literally put on her, unlike Dimmesdale)
    • Hester comes back to her original self — yay
    • As Hester becomes more lively and joyful, nature changes to how she feels (how she looks at it)
    • Important quote: “Such was the sympathy of Nature — that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth — with the bliss of these two spirits!” (168)
      • Is the narrator implying that it is better to be enslaved by the law or to be wild?
        • almost all the groups agreed on enslaved by the law
  • P. 172-174
    • Mr. Eldridge drew a picture of Pearl (with horns and a tail) — her reflection in the water, and the flowers crowned her reflection
    • Pearl points madly at the scarlet letter
    • Pearl/Nature is angry with Hester because she broke the rules and ripped the scarlet letter off
    • Pearl/Nature implys that Hester cannot go back and forget everything because she’s a sinner
    • Nature is not always in the rebellion side
  • Chapter 20 The Minister in a Maze
    • Dimmesdale is in a spiritual maze and is lost
    • Mr. Eldridge would like us to reread or READ this chapter
• Homework:
  • Reread chapter 20 of The Scarlet Letter
  • RFW: 12-4
  • 1/2 page typed — How does TSL argue against social change and for existing social structures?
  • CULTURE DAY… on Friday..

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