Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson Plans

1. The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson Plans
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2. Writing in Different Viewpoints Lesson Plans
...y using different viewpoints Name: Email: I Am A: ( )Parent ( )Teacher ( )Faculty/Staff Materials A short story of their choice Needed: Note cards or paper for notes while reading Notebook paper for their final paper Pens and whiteouts Procedure: First, students will choose a classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, or any other classic short story writer. These short stories can also be by classic mystery authors such as Jacques Futrelle, G.K. Chesterton, or others. Then, the student will read the short story and take notes. They need to know the...

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
edsitement/neh logo SearchSitemapContact Us CalendarHome Subject Catalogue Art & CultureLiterature & Language ArtsForeign LanguageHistory & Social Studies All Lesson PlansAll Subject CategoriesAll Web Sites Open Printable Lesson Plan _ _ Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor _ _ Lesson Plan Three of the Curriculum Unit: American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and Nathaniel Hawthorne Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne' stories are more often associated with dark examinations of complex systems of morality than any sense of conventional comic...

4. Tales of the Supernatural
...s become in popular culture, arguing either that much has been lost in the story's transformation or that it has been refined to its imaginative essence in the retelling. 4 ??Next have students work in research teams to investigate some American tales of the supernatural, using the resources of the Nathaniel Hawthorne website. Among Hawthorne's own works they might read "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini's Daughter" in Mosses from an Old Manse. Links within the Hawthorne website will lead them to many examples of the Gothic in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, stories like "Berenice," "The Fall of the House of Ushe...

5. Mark Twain and American Humor
...Studies All Lesson PlansAll Subject CategoriesAll Web Sites Open Printable Lesson Plan _ _ Mark Twain and American Humor This javascript opens up a pop-up window with a Flash _ _ interactive on the page Lesson Plan One of the Curriculum Unit: American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and Nathaniel Hawthorne Introduction When Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" first appeared in 1865, it was hailed by James Russell Lowell, the Boston-based leader of the literary elite, as "the finest piece of humorous literature yet produced in America." This was high praise for a tall-tale fr...

6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...ut "the flowering of New England," as Van Wyck Brooks terms the period from 1815 to 1865, took place in Longfellow's day, and he made a great contribution to it. He lived when giants walked the New England earth, giants of intellect and feeling who established the New Land as a source of greatness. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Prescott were a few of the great minds and spirits among whom Longfellow took his place as a singer and as a representative of America. The first Longfellow came to America in 1676 from Yorkshire, England. Among the ancest...

7. Literature of the Gilded Age
...NCTE Standard 12 Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes. -+ ISTE Standard 5 Technology research tools -+ + + Introduction: The literature of the pre-Civil War period is usually characterized as ?romantic? and includes the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, the transcendental essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell. These traditions continued after the Civil War; however, not surprisingly, there was a significant change with the growth of reali...

8. Living Together as One
...rls; She Said Yes; The Scarlet Letter; Don't Laugh At Me. Learners may read a book and write a report analyzing the book and its effects on their views. Bibliographical References: Bernall, Misty. She Said Yes, The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall. New York: Pocket Books, 2000. ISBN: 0743400526 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Bantam, 1981. ISBN: 0553210092 Scrapo, Brent. Journey to a Hate-Free Millenium. New Light Media. Directed by Marvin Bedogne and Brent Scarpo. 1999. Videocassette. UPC: 978097173082 Movie available free of charge with a Teacher Guide from www.newlightmedia.org. Remember the Tita...

9. Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before the Civil War
...ll Girls Go on Strike, 1836 + Manager N. B. Gordon Tends to the Union Cotton and Woolen Manufactory in Mansfield, Massachusetts, 1829 Email this Lesson + "The Natural Tie Between Master and Apprentice has been Rent Asunder: An Old Apprentice Laments Changes in the Workplace," 1826 + The Canal Boat: Nathaniel Hawthorne Travels the Erie Canal (1835) Send this lesson + "No One Ever Hurried During 'Cake-time': to friends or Work and Leisure a New York Shipyard," 1835 colleagues + "So Cheapened the White Man's Labor: White Artisans Contest the Labor of Black Workers," 1838 + "They Must Work Harder Than Ever: A Working...

10. Motherhood: Biological Asset or Social Liability?
...od, The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist . New York: Oxford University Press,1987 Cott, Nancy & Pleck, Elizabeth. A Heritage of Her Own. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979 Fried, Marlene Gerber. From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement. Boston: South End Press, 1990 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1991 Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. New York: Random House, 1975 Wrangham and Peterson, Demonic Males Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, (Houghton Mifflin Company,1996 page 150,151 Zinn, Howard. The People's History o...