The Scarlet Letter Study Guide. This item is unavailable.The Scarlet Letter Study Guide

Through Nathaniel Hawthorne's timeless tale of sin, guilt, vengeance, and redemption, students will learn: <BR> Background Information: Do some research to learn more about the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism. <BR> Author Biography<BR> Vocabulary words used throughout the novel, utilizing a variety of activities to stimulate retention and growth. <BR> Literary Techniques: Grammar and parts of speech, root words, foreshadowing, imagery, synonym, personification, compare & contrast, in context. <BR> Moral Lessons and Character Values: Keeping secrets, lying, shame, penance, and martyrdom, judging others, correction and pride, vengeance, confession, subjective morality, reconciliation with God. <BR> Activities and Writing Assignments: Pre-reading analysis papers on civil government, biblical view of sin, biblical response to people. Brook Farm research. Point-of-view summary essay. Puritanism research paper. Analyze patterns in novel. <BR> Suggestions for Further Reading: We include an in-depth reading list of more books by the same author(s) and other books that tie in with, or are similar to, The Scarlet Letter.<BR> All of the unit lessons are written from a Christian worldview! <BR><BR>

• Large 8.5x11 printed workbook format is convenient to read and easy on the eyes
• Every question has plenty of whitespace for student's answers
• Encourages neat and clean handwriting practice
• Easily transports without the need for a laptop or other expensive equipment
• Provides a permanent record of the student's work
• Convenient, removable answer key included for the teacher!
• Study guides do not contain the text of the story, play, poems, or book.
• Recommended for grades 9-12.
• Setting: Massachusetts 1640s
• Genre: American literature, Historical literature