DAILY INTRODUCTIONOctober 16 – October 19

Homework

Study for ACT 1 Quiz• Vocabulary• Text

Read Chapters 7-9 while annotating for IRONY and SATIRE

Honors:

Standard:

Class Forum Post #5:1st Quarter Reflection

Class Forum Post #5:1st Quarter Reflection

ACT

Rationale:

•Period 1: 10%•Period 3: 16%•Period 4: 14%

•Period 5: 18%•Period 7: 21%•Period 8: 27%

Collectively, 18% of you answered correctly 13% on A-day22% on B-day

Unfortunately, 82% did not 87% on A-day78% on B-day

44. For the sake of coherence, Sentence 2 should be placed:

[1] If a scorpion happens to sting you, please don’t

follow my sister’s example. [2] All medical facilities in Arizona have antivenin on

hand. [3] Seek medical treatment immediately,

especially if you’ve flushed the critter down the toilet

and have no way of knowing the exact nature of the

perpetrator! [4] This way, you will certainly save

yourself from some amount of pain and discomfort, and you might even save your

life. 44

A. Where it is now. B. Before sentence

1. C. After sentence 3. D. Omit it; it is not

relevant to the paragraph.

This question requires you to put things in logical order, and to decide whether the underlined portion is relevant to the paragraph. In this case, it is best to omit the underlined portion because it does not add any necessary information to the paragraph; it is an irrelevant detail. The rest of the sentences are already in the most logical order.

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Acr

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Acrimonious

Locked in a mean-spirited, bitter argument? That's an acrimonious situation that might result in fists flying unless you

and your opponent can cool down

Pronunciation:[ak-crim-own-e-us]

Food for Thought:Acrid means "having a strongly

unpleasant taste or smell.”

Until the mid-nineteenth century, acrimonious meant the same thing as

acrid. But while acrid is still most commonly used in a literal sense (as

in "an acrid odor"), acrimonious is now used to describe things like angry and

bitter speeches or debates.

Part of Speech:Adjective

Synonyms:BelligerentCausticPetulantRancorous

Daily Objective

Standard:

SWBAT understand thematic development and characterization

through their reading of ACT 1 of Arthur Millers,

“The Crucible.”

Honors:

SWBAT determine how consequence and irony

affect thematic development within

Chapters 4-6 of Nathanial Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.”

The Crucible

ACT

1

Direct

vs. Indirec

t

Characterization

In The Crucible,

Miller uses direct

and indirect

characterization

to describe his

characters.

By using direct characterization, we are able to depict who the person is through descriptive text; this is more “in-your-face” information in which becoming familiar with someone is relatively easy.

With indirect characterization, you learn who a character is based on his or her actions, thoughts, and ideas. For the journal this week, I have decided to use John Proctor. While reading the text, I noticed he was a very popular person, and through both direct and indirect characterization, you are easily able to read his personality.

In Other Words

:

Direct Characterization

TELLSIndirect

Characterization

SHOWS

Direct Characterization

Proctor was a farmer

in his middle thirties.

He need not have

been a partisan of

any faction in the

town, but there is

evidence to suggest

that he had a sharp

and biting way with

hypocrites. (Miller,

1224)

The passage is a perfect example of direct

characterization. Instead of having to guess who he is

through thoughts or actions, the author is very straight

forward. Proctor’s profession and his age are both simply stated in this passage.

Proctor is a farmer.Proctor is in his mid-thirties.

He was the kind of

man- powerful of

body, even-

tempered, and not

easily led- who

cannot refuse

support to

partisans without

drawing their

deepest

resentment (Miller,

1224).

This passage is very straight forward. It comes right out and

explains how he is a level headed man, who is not easily influenced.

More Direct Characterization

What to look for:

Speech What does the character say? How does the character speak?

Thoughts What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings

Effect on others toward the character

What is revealed through the characters effect on other people? How do other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character?

Actions What does the character do? How does the character behave?

Looks What does the character look like? How does the character dress?

Spotting INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATIONTh

ink:

STEA

L

In Proctor’s presence, a

fool felt his foolishness

instantly- and proctor is

always marked for

calumny therefore. But

as we shall see, the

steady manner he

displays does not spring

from an untroubled

soul.

This text shows how other characters respond to Proctor and his actions. Additionally, seeing as though he does not spring from an untroubled soul, this insinuates he

has a shaky past; he may have skeletons in the closet that would ruin his reputation if discovered.

Indirect Characterization

With indirect characterization, you receive hints and clues as to what the person is like and you must put two and two together for yourself. This may make it

somewhat harder, but nonetheless, you are able to

discover the person’s personality.

Chara

cter

Readin

gs

in

AC

T 1

•Abigail Williams•Mercy Lewis•Betty Parris• John Proctor•Goody Ann Putnam•Reverend Parris•Reverend John Hale

•Tituba•Goody Elizabeth Proctor•Mary Warren•Rebecca Nurse•Susanna Walcott•Giles Corey•Francis Nurse

Annotate for the following:

Direct and Indirect Characterizations on the following people: •Abigail• John Proctor•Reverend Parris•Reverend Hale

Thematic development:•Hysteria• Puritanism vs Individuality•Reputation and Integrity

Homework

Study for ACT 1 Quiz• Vocabulary• Text

Class Forum Post #5:Is your “dream

college” right for you?

Next Class:

ACT 1 Reading Quiz with

Vocabulary

Pre-reading for ACT 2

The Scarlet Letter

Chapte

rs 4-6

SUMMARY & ANALYSESChapters 4-6

Chapter 4

Summary

When Hester and Pearl return to prison, Pearl cries uncontrollably. The prison guards allow a doctor in to help calm her. Posing as a physician, Roger Chillingworth enters and gives healing concoctions to Pearl and Hester. Hester fears Chillingworth might actually be poisoning her, but drinks his remedy.

Chillingworth forgives Hester for betraying him. He asks her to tell him the identity of the father, but once again she refuses. He then asks Hester to protect his identity by swearing never to identify him as her husband. Hester remains suspicious of Chillingworth and thinks she might be sealing her own doom by agreeing to keep his secret, but does it anyway.

Though Chillingworth and Dimmesdale both sin by abandoning Hester, only Hester endures punishment for sin. Outcast and alone with Pearl, Hester can't even trust her own husband.

Hester hides Dimmesdale and Chillingworth's identities to protect them. Dimmesdale and Chillingworth conceal their own identities to protect themselves. Though a "sinner," Hester is selfless.

Analyses

Chapter 5

Summary

About three years pass. Hester, now free from prison, decides not to leave Boston. She takes Pearl to live in an abandoned cabin on the outskirts of town.

Hester supports herself as a seamstress. The same people who pay her for her work, including Governor Bellingham, continue to shun her.

Hester grows increasingly lonely. Pearl, her only companion, is a constant reminder of the source of her alienation: sin. Hester is determined to keep the meaning of the scarlet letter a secret from Pearl.

Hester's sin drives her to the border of society and nature.

Puritan hypocrisy: they'll employ a "sinner" to suit their own needs.

Like Chillingworth and Dimmesdale, Hester conceals a secret. These secrets harm those who keep them and those from whom they're kept.

Analyses

Chapter 6

Summary

The narrator describes Pearl as the human manifestation of Hester's sin: Pearl is filled with a sense of defiance and deviance, and does not fit in among the other children of the community.

Like Hester, Pearl is painfully aware of her isolation. She has an innate sense that Hester's scarlet letter is linked to their rejection by society. She pleads with her mother to explain the letter's origin.

The townspeople consider Pearl the physical embodiment of sin, an "imp of evil."

Hester has passed on her own defiant "sinful" spirit to her daughter. Pearl is an individual, not a Puritan conformer.

Pearl's obsession with the letter makes Hester think Pearl is possessed. But it's the secret surrounding the sin that obsesses Pearl .

The Puritans condemn Pearl, an innocent child.

Analyses

THEME DEVELOPMENTChapters 4-6

Them

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Deve

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•Chapter 4: Sin and Individuality and Conformity•Chapter 5: Sin, Individuality and Conformity, Puritanism, and Nature•Chapter 6: Sin, Individuality and Conformity, Puritanism, Nature, The Occult

(1) With a partner find TWO (2) textual examples for each theme in the text.

(2) How do these work collectively to create tension in the novel?

IRONYChapters 4-6

Identifying the 4 TYPES OF IRONY

•Verbal Irony•Dramatic Irony•Situational Irony•Coincidence (Not

Irony)

It’s like RAIIIIIIN on your wedding day, It’s a free ride, when you’ve already paid, It’s some good advice that you just didn’t take, And who would have thought, it figures.-Alanis Morrisette

Verb

al I

rony

Dra

mati

c Ir

ony

Sit

uati

onal

Irony

NO

T Ir

ony,

but

CO

INC

IDEN

CE

OR…Understanding “Irony” in

order to pass English III Honors!

Find one textual

example of irony from

each chapter

CONSEQUENCEChapters 4-6

Consequences of Sin

Hester's sin causes her to be singled out and ostracized--physically and emotionally--from the rest of her community. However, Hester seems to find peace in this outcasting, which was certainly not the norm or the intent.

Pearl inherits her sin from her mother (just as the Puritans believed all people inherited sin and evil from the Fall from Grace in the Garden of Eden). Pearl is judged before people even get to know her based on who her mother is.

Thus far, what are

the consequen

ces Dimmesdale faces for his sin?

Homework

Read Chapters 7-9 while annotating for IRONY and

CHARACTERIZATIONS

Class Forum Post #5:1st Quarter Reflection

Next Class:

Chapters 7-9 Reading Quiz

with Vocabulary

Discussion of Chapters 7-9

(Irony and Satire)