2 nd Quarter Journals

Journal 1- What are some issues contemporary society must face? **Remember to continue writing at least ½ a page for journals (to the middle hole on the notebook paper)!**

Journal 2 If you could wake up tomorrow with an ability to do something, what would it be?

In your groups… Create a list of the ten most important laws/rules of society (written or just understood). What ten rules, if we follow them, will keep us out of trouble? What are some of the things that you learned yesterday in your research of the Puritan lifestyle? What rules would we have to follow in a Puritan society? What are the possible punishments for breaking the rules of society today? In Puritan times?

Journal 3 Why doesn’t Hester run away from the Puritan settlement? If you were in her situation, would you have run away? Why or why not?

The Scarlet Letter Pop Quiz Chapters 1-6

1.What did Hester promise to Roger Chillingworth in the prison? 2.Where do Hester and her baby go after she is released from prison? 3.What does Hester do to earn money to support herself and Pearl? 4.How do the poor people in the settlement treat Hester when she begins making clothes for them? 5.What strange thing is Pearl obsessed with?

Journal 4 What is one of your worst nightmares?

Journal 5 What is your opinion of Roger Chillingworth at this point in the novel? Why do you feel this way about him? Has your opinion changed since the beginning of the novel?

Journal 6 If you could choose anywhere in the world to live, where would it be?

2 nd Quarter Journals

Journal 1- What are some issues contemporary society must face? **Remember to continue writing at least ½ a page for journals (to the middle hole on the notebook paper)!**

Journal 2 If you could wake up tomorrow with an ability to do something, what would it be?

In your groups… Create a list of the ten most important laws/rules of society (written or just understood). What ten rules, if we follow them, will keep us out of trouble? What are some of the things that you learned yesterday in your research of the Puritan lifestyle? What rules would we have to follow in a Puritan society? What are the possible punishments for breaking the rules of society today? In Puritan times?

Journal 3 Why doesn’t Hester run away from the Puritan settlement? If you were in her situation, would you have run away? Why or why not?

The Scarlet Letter Pop Quiz Chapters 1-6

1.What did Hester promise to Roger Chillingworth in the prison? 2.Where do Hester and her baby go after she is released from prison? 3.What does Hester do to earn money to support herself and Pearl? 4.How do the poor people in the settlement treat Hester when she begins making clothes for them? 5.What strange thing is Pearl obsessed with?

Journal 4 What is one of your worst nightmares?

Journal 5 What is your opinion of Roger Chillingworth at this point in the novel? Why do you feel this way about him? Has your opinion changed since the beginning of the novel?

Journal 6 Freewrite

Journal 7 The way that the society in which Hester lives defines her identity in a different way than she defines herself. How does the Puritan society’s definition of Hester’s identity (who she is as a person; her worth) differ from her own? Defend your answer with details from the text.

Journal 8 Anticipating the end of the novel ( which you will Monday night ), how do you think the novel will end, given what you read last night in Chapters 18-20?

Journal 9 Which symbol in the book do you find most interesting?

Journal 10 What was your reaction to the end of The Scarlet Letter? Why did you feel this way? Was the ending close to what you predicted two journals ago?

Journal 11 If society gave you a “scarlet letter” what would it be?

Journal 12 What is the best decision you have ever made in your life? Why do you pick this decision above the rest?