1. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
The Scarlet Letter A

2. Historical Tidbit
Nathaniel Hawthorne changed the spelling of his family name from Hathorne to Hawthorne to avoid connection to an ancestor who was one of the magistrates (judges) during the Salem Witch Trials.

4. The Scarlet Letter
a complex novel
an intrusive narrator
difficult language and style
strong female heroine
many symbols (obvious and traditional and obscure and non-traditional)

5. The Scarlet Letter
Published in 1850
Set in 1640s

6. The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
Vocabulary assignment requirements:
identification of part of speech
two definitions

7. The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
amenable
appalled
auspicious
calamity
5. capricious

8. The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
6. constrained
7. edifice
8. effectual
9. eminent
10. ignominy

9. The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
11. importunate
12. infer
13. inimical
14. lurid
15. mien

10. The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
16. morbid
17. pertained
18. premeditated
19. sagacity
20. solace

11. The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
The Scarlet Letter vocabulary assignment is due Friday, September 16, 2011.
The Scarlet Letter vocabulary quiz is Tuesday, September 20, 2011.
The quiz questions are matching and fill in the blank. The quiz is worth 40 points.

12. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a surveyor at the Salem Custom House.
This was a government job received through presidential appointment.
Hawthorne held the job from
Hawthorne’s office was in the front of the building on the first floor