Wednesday January 17, 2018

Honors English 10: Today students took a quiz over chapter 5 and 6. Students then worked through the chapter comprehension questions. Here are the questions for 5 and 6:

Chapter 5

1. Hester comes to some conclusions about her life on the first page of chapter 5. What does she realize about the scarlet letter?

2. What does Hawthorne suggest about people who are shamed and where they end up?

3. Where does Hester end up living after her prison sentence? How does she make a living?

4. What is ironic and even hypocritical about her job?

5. How is she treated by the townspeople?

6. What strange and unexplainable thing starts to happen to Hester in relation to the scarlet letter?

Chapter 6
1.       Where does Hawthorne say the infant was worthy to have come from? Why is this important? What does it relate to? (Think of the religious aspects)
2.       How does Hester perceive her child? Use a line from the text to support your thinking.
3.       What is Pearl’s behavior like around other children?

    HOMEWORK: Study vocabulary! Vocab is located on your Scarlet Letter pre-reading sheet! 

  

    English 10: Students were checked off for completion of their chapter two questions. We then reviewed vocab. Then we read chapter 3 together in LOTF. 

     HOMEWORK: Study vocabulary! Also, a practice list is now available on vocab.com! This is practice only, you do not need to do it, but it can help you for the quiz coming up on Monday!