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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
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Bibliomania: Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864
http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/Simonds/SHAL/p4-chap4.html
Everything you want in one site! A short, meaty
biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne provides students and teachers with background information for a study of the writer and his works. Part of a larger collection of information of Hawthorne, the site is easily
accessible by students grades 7-12. The site is self-contained, with links limited to footnotes, cross-references to other authors and to the larger Bibliomania site.
Overall Rating: 4
Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
http://www.penguinputnam.com/academic/resources/guides/hawthorn/frame.htm
A complete teaching guide to The Scarlet Letter
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this site offers teachers and students a wide variety of background support, classroom activities and possible assignments. "The material is clear and accessible, if conventional," providing student support in close reading skills and thematic analysis, as well as working with the elements of a novel. This site provides detailed chapter summaries that may give students more support than teachers may want.
Overall Rating: 4The Scarlet Letter: A Romance
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/sl.html
Opening with a charming introduction which cautions the student to "read the book" and then offers them encouragement on the journey, this site contains the entire
e-text of The Scarlet Letter. In addition, it offers help with citations. All the links tried -- and there are many -- were live, filled with teacher lesson plans, study guides, sample essays,
and literary criticism. The extensive glossary of terms and vocabulary from The Scarlet Letter
will help students comprehend Hawthorne's narrative. In "Other Resources for Teachers" try the link to the great Heath anthology that offers teachers many resources.
Overall Rating: 3+Bibliomania: The Literary Development of New England
http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/Simonds/SHAL/p1-chap4.html#lit
A short and sweet, accessible look at the intellectual influences on literature in the 19th
century, this online paper clearly explains the effects of Unitarianism and Transcendentalism on the writing of Emerson, Longfellow, Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, the first editor of the transcendentalist quarterly,
The Dial. This site offers teachers needed background information on the major philosophical stance of the writing of the period. While it provides no links to other sites, it still provides good information.
Overall Rating: 3Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://educeth.ethz.ch/english/readinglist/hawthorne,nath.html
This site is a gateway to links that offer good general
information on Hawthorne and his works. The background information on Hawthorne and his times will give teachers ideas for "into" activities. A comprehensive timeline provides students with a historical
context for understanding Hawthorne and his works. While most of the links are active, the discussion pages are not.
Overall Rating: 3The Wayside: Home of Authors
http://www.nps.gov/mima/wayside/index1.htm
Take a guided tour of historic Wayside, Hawthorne's home, and on the way find out
about Hawthorne's relationship with other literary figures of his time, including the Alcotts, Thoreau and Melville. This site offers ideas for writing topics, gives a literary chronology and a short biography. The site
is self-contained with no links to other pages.
Overall Rating: 3 |
