Today we started off the period once again with DGP. Then we moved into today's Scarlet Letter presentations. These are some of the central ideas presented in these chapters:
Chapter 4 - A doctor, Roger Chillingsworth, is called for Hester and Pearl in the prison. He speaks with Hester and displays his hatred for the father of Pearl. His main goal now is to find that man. However, he says he does not hate Pearl and Hester.
Chapter 5 - Hester is able to move into a house of her own. She chooses to live by herself (with Pearl) on the outside of town. She employs herself as a seamstress and does needlework for all the most important people in town, except for brides-to-be. Hester also starts making clothes for the needy as a way to deal with her guilt.
Chapter 6 - This chapter is all about Pearl and her relationship to Hester. She is now older and is beginning to realize what the scarlet letter is and what it means. This embarrasses her mother. Pearl also is sometimes a handful to her mother and when Hester asks "Who made you?", Pearl replies "no one".
After reviewing Ch. 4-6, we read "Nature" and "Self Reliance" by the transcendentalist writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson. We talked about how "Nature" was about the relationship between people and nature, while exhibiting all the beliefs of the transcendentalists of the time. "Self Reliance" is about Emerson's beliefs, pertaining to how we are all individuals and should embrace that. The students then answered the book questions on pgs. 390 and 392.
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