2nd 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)!

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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 QuizChapters 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?

2nd 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 QuizChapters 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?

2nd 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 QuizChapters 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?

Journal 13

Write about one of your most agonizingly embarrassing

moments.

Journal 14

Write about one of your favorite holiday childhood

memories.

Journal 15“Beauty is only skin deep,” the cliché claims. If you had to choose between beauty and brains, which would you

pick? Which do you think would get you further in life? Which do you think

would make you happier?

Journal 16

Name one thing that you fear. How has this fear affected

your life?

Journal 17

Share one exciting or interesting thing you did

over break and explain it in detail.

Journal 18

If you could read the mind of someone famous, who

would it be? Why would you pick this person?

Journal 19

If you could do any job in the world for one day, what would it be? Why would

you choose this job?

Journal 20Describe a perfect day—not the one

you’d have if you were rich and famous, but the one you could

have this Saturday or Tuesday. What day of the week would your perfect day fall on? What would

you do, see, eat, read, watch?

Journal 21

If you could “unknow” one thing you know,

what would it be? Why?