Sep
27
2009
Choose a passage from the The Scarlet Letter that you believe has significance to the novel as a whole. Consider the literary device(s) being employed by Hawthorne in the passage, and how it contributes to his overall purpose. Quote the passage, then discuss.
Check out this Hawthorne link:
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Introduction.html
Jun
28
2008
IDENTITY. This word can be developed into a theme for just about everything we read this year in honors English 10. Let’s begin with Chris McCandless’s identity–and your own–as it relates to one’s name.
Respond to one of the following prompts:
Krakauer describes Chris as a pilgrim (85). What word do you assign to Christopher McCandless?
Why do you think Chris changes his name? Why would he choose the name Alexander Supertramp?
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Food for Thought:
Amara Rose is a woman who changed her name. This is how she describes it:
Our names form the core of our identity. Throughout time and human history, people have often changed their names when they’ve undergone an initiation in consciousness. Sometimes a tribal elder or shaman bestows the new name, signifying that the initiate has passed into the role of teacher or healer. Sometimes the name simply announces itself softly in one’s awareness, as inherently right as the change process itself. The poet David Whyte, whose work I greatly admire, refers to this stepping into our power as “the soul declaring itself.” This is how the name shift feels. http://www.liveyourlight.com/mind/ARoseByA.html
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