PreAPEnglish 10: January 23-27

Hello Young APEs!

This new semester is flying by. I hope that you have all completed your Major Works Data Sheets on The Scarlet Letter and have uploaded them to Moodle. If not, please do not delay further. Also, let me congratulate you on your fabulous illustrations of Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. These will be compiled and made into a slideshow.
This week we will review the play The Crucible. Be prepared to write about the themes in it. Do not confuse the depictions in the play with the very real testimony in Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World, which we read excerpts last week. You should be familiar with the reasons Miller states for having written the former and examples of bias and the implications thereof in the latter.

This week you will take the quiz on vocabulary 11. Please study.

Also, be prepared to discuss the novel The Scarlet Letter in class. You will be expected, after the discussion, to write a timed in-class essay on this text. Remember that though the novel is set in Puritan Boston, it was not written by a Puritan, but rather by a descendant of on of the Salem judges who is critical of Puritanism. The most important question you must answer about the novel is what is it's theme...in other words...what is the meaning of the text? The second most important question is how do you know? ...In other words, what parts of the text prove your claim about meaning.

See you in class!

Mrs. SO