1. Today’s Agenda Reading Check Quiz- Clear your desk!
Hawthorne biography video
Characterization Review
Board Talk- “The Minister’s Black Veil” & Hawthorne’s Bio

2. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Bio
Take notes in your journals

3. Reading Checks in IB Lit
Reading Quiz- checking for surface reading comprehension/plot/characters/point of the story, etc. DON’T OVERTHINK THESE!
Critical Reading- Reading for detail, identifying literary devices/color marking/ key patterns/motifs/ themes/ big ideas/making connections/asking questions/examining author’s choices and how they shape meaning/ tone/mood etc. Color marking and T charts are VERY helpful with prose & poetry.
Board Talk/Socratic Seminar- Looking for use of evidence extended in-depth analysis/critical thinking/taking thinking to a higher level/making connections/ using what’s listed above that you found in your critical reading and expanding on your ideas
What did your teachers do last year to check for these things?

4. When Reading, Ask Yourself:
Are you actively reading or passively reading? Think back to “The Reader as Artist”
Think of your purpose for reading: are you reading to “get it” or are you reading to “get it done” and get a grade?
When you’re critically reading, are your comments meaningful or are you going through the motions to get the points? Remember, just getting it done doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting the points. If your comments are not meaningful, you will be docked.
When you read a page of text, can you recall what you just read? When you finish reading a story, did you understand the point of the story? If not, you need to go back and read closer.
Are you texting /Snapchatting/ Tweeting/ Facebooking while you’re reading? TV? Music? Are there loud, distracting people near you?
Are you skimming or are you reading? There is a difference.
Are you checking the website and managing your time wisely to ensure that you have enough time to read and prepare for class?

5. 10 Solutions
1. BREATHE! You are going to be OK. This transitional period from 10th-11th is tough in IB. We are going to help you get through it.
2. Always read with a pen/pencil
3. Use strategies from class, like color marking & t charts, when critically reading/ make annotations more intentional
4. After each page (or even long paragraphs), ask yourself what’s going on. If you don’t know, go back and reread.
5. At the conclusion of reading, ask yourself what the point of the story was. If you don’t know…you need to read closer.
6. Work on improving your time management skills
7. Don’t over think the quiz questions- I’m not trying to trick you.
8. It’s OK to ask for help if you don’t understand! We want you to!
9. Find a quiet, happy place to read where you’re not distracted
10. One less-than-ideal reading quiz score is not going to determine your grade for the semester.
YOU ARE ALL BRILLIANT AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE JUST FINE!  YOU ARE A PERSON, NOT A QUIZ SCORE. THIS IS A NORMAL ROUGH PATCH THAT EVERYONE GOES THROUGH.

6. What is Characterization?
Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
Direct Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of the character.
Speech: What does the character say? How do they speak?
Thoughts: Character’s private thoughts and feelings
Effect on others/How other characters behave around him/her
Actions: What does the character do? How do they behave?
Looks: What do they look like? How do they dress?

7. American Romanticism: One of Many “ISMs”

8. What is Romanticism?
Romanticism refers to a movement in art, literature, and music during the 19th century.
Romanticism is characterized by the 5 “I”s
Imagination
Intuition
Idealism
Inspiration
Individuality

9. Imagination Imagination was emphasized over “reason.”
This was a backlash against the rationalism characterized by the Neoclassical period or “Age of Reason.”
Imagination was considered necessary for creating all art.
British writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it “intellectual intuition.”

10. Intuition
Romantics placed value on “intuition,” or feeling and instincts, over reason.
Emotions were important in Romantic art.
Transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau, prolifically focused on the intuition man can identify through communing with nature.

11. Idealism
Idealism is the concept that we can make the world a better place.
Idealism refers to any theory that emphasizes the spirit, the mind, or language over matter – thought has a crucial role in making the world the way it is.
Transcendentalists will clash with American dark romantics on this point.

12. Inspiration
The Romantic artist, musician, or writer, is an “inspired creator” rather than a “technical master.”
What this means is “going with the moment” or being spontaneous, rather than “getting it precise.”
The work of Edgar Allan Poe will represent this idea well.

13. Individuality Romantics celebrated the individual.
During this time period, Women’s Rights and Abolitionism were taking root as major movements, which were grounded in individualism.

14. Literature In America, Romanticism most strongly impacted literature.
Writers explored supernatural and gothic themes.
Writers wrote about nature – Transcendentalists believed God was in nature, unlike “Age of Reason” writers like Franklin and Jefferson, who saw God as a “divine watchmaker,” who created the universe and left it to run itself.

15. Let’s Talk About…Dark Romanticism!

16. Dark Romanticism/Gothic
Dark Romanticism's birth was a mid-nineteenth-century reaction to Romanticism & Transcendentalism…A STARK CONTRAST!
Authors like Poe, Hawthorne and Melville, found base Romantic and Transcendental beliefs far too optimistic and egotistical and reacted by modifying them in their prose and poetry.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein defined European dark romanticism, often referred to as gothic.
American dark romanticism was defined by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

17. Dark Romantics Characteristics
Dark Romantics present individuals as prone to sin and self-destruction, not as inherently possessing divinity and wisdom.
Dark Romantics are much less confident about the notion that perfection is an innate quality of mankind.
Dark Romanticism views nature in a much more sinister light. Nature is dark, decaying, and mysterious.
Works of Dark Romanticism frequently show individuals failing in their attempts to make changes for the better.

18. Nathaniel Hawthorne: “The Minister’s Black Veil” & “The Birthmark” In journals, create one large T chart of ideas and techniques for Hawthorne’s short stories.

19. Board Talk- How to Improve!
1. Use quotes! (some didn’t use any…at all…)
2. Avoid repeating the same quotes over and over (“Lo-on every visage a black veil!”x 1000) Many people did a great job with this!
3. Work on depth of analysis. ANALYZE your quote. What does your quote show us? A strong critical read should help you here.
4. Avoid personal opinion statements- ie. “Hawthorne’s writing is too repetitive and boring.” This comes across as arrogant and will destroy you on the IOC. APPRECIATE, don’t JUDGE.
5. Double check historical context- ie. Hawthorne was NOT a Puritan. He writes about Puritans, and was ashamed of his ancestors, who were Puritans, but he is NOT a Puritan.
6. Discuss literary techniques & connections to ideas. Good attempt at this, but we can improve. Good connections to Dark Romanticism.
7. Just because someone writes it on the board, does not necessarily mean it’s true…you can politely disagree!

20. “The Minister’s Black Veil” Discussion
Why does Mr. Hooper wear the veil? (THINK OF THE VEIL AS A MIRROR) Think about how he reacts to his own reflection. How does the veil make him see the world (literally & figuratively)?
How does Hawthorne characterize Mr. Hooper? Why does he choose to characterize him in this way?
As time passes, how do people treat Mr. Hooper? Consider the actions of children and of the dying. Why do you think they treat him that way?
What is the greatest strength or most unique characteristic of Hawthorne’s writing style? Explain.
What roles do sin, guilt, and hypocrisy play in this short story? Why did Hawthorne include these big ideas?

21. “The Birthmark” Discussion
1. In much of his fiction, Hawthorne treats pride as an "evil." Is there an evil type of pride evident in "The Birthmark"? Why or why not?
2. How would you characterize Alymer? Why does Hawthorne choose to make him this way?
3. In what ways is "The Birthmark" for all its promise of an "impressive moral" actually morally ambiguous? Why might some readers find it difficult to view Alymer, for instance, as purely and unambiguously "evil"?
4. Where do you see elements of Dark Romanticism in Hawthorne’s short stories that we read in class?
5. Hawthorne didn't feel himself confined to an aesthetic that privileges truth or plausibility. He felt comfortable allowing his fiction to include "the spirit and mechanism of the fairyland" (his words). What "fantastic" or "magical" elements appear in "The Birthmark"? To what effect?

22. Commentary Practice
Structure a 3 minute commentary on either “The Minster’s Black Veil” or “The Birthmark”
Create a Dominant Effect (Ideas + Techniques) and go from there!
Think about AUTHOR’S CRAFT: What CHOICES does Hawthorne make and TO WHAT EFFECT do those choices contribute to OVERALL MEANING for the reader?

23. Washington Irving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdrPF4RX20c
Take notes in journals

24. Appointment Discussion: Rip Van Winkle, The Birthmark, & The Minister’s Black Veil
The Appointment Discussion is another method we use in class.
For each category, you will have 5-7 minutes depending on time to discuss. Each time we switch, you MUST discuss with a different person and write their name down.
You must fill in the box covering your key discussion points.
This will be part of your homework packet…so it needs to be complete!

25. Rip Van Winkle 23:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jir7ag6mfN0
1970 Animated Video

26. Tomorrow- Socratic Seminar!
READ (not critically) “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Irving
Complete the prep sheet for tomorrow (will be part of your homework packet)
No prep sheet=no Socratic Seminar=0 in the grade book.
This has been on the website since Sunday, so no excuses for not making this happen.