I checked your Part One Study Guide (all except the vocabulary words).
We continued reading and discussing Fahrenheit 451.
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I checked your Part One Study Guide (all except the vocabulary words).
We continued reading and discussing Fahrenheit 451.
Computer lab to work on projects.
Vocab Unit #6:
Words due Wednesday - part of speech, definition, and original sentence
augur
exhort
intervolution
phantasmagoric
remonstrance
requital
sable
scourge
tremulous
wreak
efficacious
emaciated
emissary
impalpable
lurid
penitential
presentiment
scurrilous
undissembled
HW: Read up to Ch. 3 for Thursday and complete a reader's journal response that explores the following questions:
Ch. 3: The Recognition
1. Analyze the description of Chillingworth and the background information on Hester and Chillingworth's relationship. Do you feel sorry for him? Explain. Do you pity her? Explain.
2. What oath does Chillingworth make? Why? How does this oath affect your opinion of him?
3. According to Hawthorne, why are the Puritan people not capable of judging Hester Prynne?
4. What does Wilson try to get Dimmesdale to do?
5. Analyze the description of Dimmesdale.
6. What conflict is revealed in Dimmesdale's character when he speaks to Hester and in his reaction to her response? What is your opinion of Dimmesdale as a man?