1. 2 ND 9WKS – WK5 – D3 UNIT: Theme/Style Analysis

2. AGENDA  Discuss chapters 9-10  Chapters 9-10 reading check quiz  Review Socratic seminar & Friday’s theme statements  In-class group activity: Body Biography  HW: Read chs. 11-12 (by Friday) & finish seminar prep.

3. CHS. 9-10  To be a leach was literally to be a doctor; this was an idiom of the time/region; however, what does this symbolize in terms of Chillingworth’s relationship to Hester?  We learn that Chillingworth was indeed captured by Indians, which accounts for his time lost (also mentioned in ch. 4 if you didn’t pick up on it).

4. CHS. 9-10  The people of the town assign Chillingworth to care for the young minister Dimmesdale who clutches his chest from an unexplainable pain. He moves in with him.  Why is Hawthorne showing us all this? Why Dimmesdale?

5. CHS. 9-10  In conversation with Dimmesdale, Chillingworth makes the following remark: “…some men bury their secrets…[These men] fear to take up the shame that rightfully belongs to them.” What does this reveal about both Dimmesdale & Chillingworth?

6. SOCRATIC SEMINAR REMINDERS  Let’s review the discussion format.  Have your prep. notes ready for class beforehand. If you are finishing them as class starts, you will be instantly reduced from a potential 15/15 to 10/15 points for them.

7. GROUP ASSIGNMENT: CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY  You will begin this today. You will be grouped, you will outline, & you will answer the assignment criteria on a given character (Hester, or Pearl, or Chillingworth, or Dimmesdale.  Thursday is the seminar, but Friday we’ll add to this assignment with a gallery walk (which I’ll explain at the beginning of class Friday).