prereading

11th Grade Pre-Reading for Scarlet Letter Activity 1: Make a list of all the “groups of which you are a part” Family, friends, religious group, camp friends, sports teams, friends at school Group || Unpardonable (Unforgivable) Sin || Punishment || Family || Killing my sister || My parents would never speak to me again || || ||  || ||  ||  || ||  ||  || Is there a common element in the type(s) of punishments? What punishments are the worst and why? Activity 2: You are outside of school on school grounds with your best friend doing something bad, that you’re not supposed to be doing (drinking? Smoking pot?). Goldberg appears… your friend takes off but you are grabbed. You get dragged back to Goldberg’s office and he presents you with two options: you can tell who you were with and get 5 days of detention OR if you don’t fess up, you get 5 days of suspension and colleges will be notified of the suspension and the reason for it. What do you do? Activity 3: Background information about the [|Puritans] and [|Calvinism]