This website provides sound bites of the music in the musical The Scarlet Letter. It also gives students another way to think about the book The Scarlet Letter
This is a Cliff Notes web page that contains things that are helpful while reading the book including: A book summary, chapter summaries, character maps and study guides, homework help and more.
The full text can be found at this site. This text is especially helpful for students because it contains an embedded glossary and readers notes. When you click on a highlighted or underlined word it takes you to an explanation or a note.
This link sends you to a guide that helps teachers teach the book The Scarlet Letter. It gives important tips on what subjects should be touched while reading the book and it also gives ideas about how to make things more interesting to the students.
This website gives a summary of each of the characters in The Scarlet Letter and it also gives a time-line of the characters. This would be helpful for students who have problems remembering events that happened within the book
This is a lesson plan to help students identify the character traits of certain characters within The Scarlet Letter. After deteremining the traits they are asked to become a character from the novel.
This lesson plan has students explore the feelings of each of the characters in a series of journal entries. When the students are done writing about one topic from a characters point of view they rotate to a different station and write about another topic.
This is a lesson plan in which students are supposed to write a poem about a particular character in the book. There is a list of things that should be included in the poem including a link to a character and a specific symbol that is involved with the character in the book.
This is a unit on the symbolism within The Scarlet Letter in which students are supposed to learn how to associate symbols with the text of The Scarlet Letter.
This is a lesson in which students learn that the author does not always tell the reader how things end, and it is also a lesson that helps students picture what Pearl is like beyond the age 14.
This is an activity that can be done in class where students are broken into groups of four. They list facts about the book that they've read in an ABC manner. For example A is for the letter that Hester wears in shame.
This project gives students three ideas for a project. Each of the ideas allows the students to be creative in some way such as writing a greeting card or making a model of a scene.
This project asks students to pick someone who is infamous and assign them a letter to wear. The student has to do research on the person, do a brief biography, and then explain why they chose the letter for the person.
Media
1. The movie The Scarlet Letter
This is a website for the movie version of The Scarlet Letter that will help students get a better visualization of the characters in the book.
2. The Musical The Scarlet Letter
This website provides sound bites of the music in the musical The Scarlet Letter. It also gives students another way to think about the book The Scarlet Letter
3. Named and Shamed for Bad Behavior
This article relates the actions in The Scarlet Letter with things that happen in today's society
Resources
4. The Scarlet Letter Study Guide and Homework Help
This is a Cliff Notes web page that contains things that are helpful while reading the book including: A book summary, chapter summaries, character maps and study guides, homework help and more.
5. The Scarlet Letter The Full Text
The full text can be found at this site. This text is especially helpful for students because it contains an embedded glossary and readers notes. When you click on a highlighted or underlined word it takes you to an explanation or a note.
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne
This site gives important information about the author of The Scarlet Letter and it also gives important information about the book itself.
7. Puritan Background
This site gives information about the Puritan religion that might help students understand the ways of the people in the book.
8. Teachers Guide for The Scarlet Letter
This link sends you to a guide that helps teachers teach the book The Scarlet Letter. It gives important tips on what subjects should be touched while reading the book and it also gives ideas about how to make things more interesting to the students.
9. Character's Timelines
This website gives a summary of each of the characters in The Scarlet Letter and it also gives a time-line of the characters. This would be helpful for students who have problems remembering events that happened within the book
10. No Fear Literature
This site gives you the actual text on one side and a translation of the text on the other, so it is easier for someone to understand.
11. Quotes
This site lists the most famous quotes from The Scarlet Letter.
Lesson Plans
12. Becoming a Character Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan to help students identify the character traits of certain characters within The Scarlet Letter. After deteremining the traits they are asked to become a character from the novel.
13. Role Playing in Writing
This lesson plan has students explore the feelings of each of the characters in a series of journal entries. When the students are done writing about one topic from a characters point of view they rotate to a different station and write about another topic.
14. Bio Poem Lesson
This is a lesson plan in which students are supposed to write a poem about a particular character in the book. There is a list of things that should be included in the poem including a link to a character and a specific symbol that is involved with the character in the book.
15. A Unit On Symbolism
This is a unit on the symbolism within The Scarlet Letter in which students are supposed to learn how to associate symbols with the text of The Scarlet Letter.
16. A Lesson on Pearl
This is a lesson in which students learn that the author does not always tell the reader how things end, and it is also a lesson that helps students picture what Pearl is like beyond the age 14.
Activities/ Projects
17. The Scarlet Letter book title activity
This is an activity that has students make inferences about what the title of the book The Scarlet Letter might imply about the story.
18. Knowing Your ABC's Activity
This is an activity that can be done in class where students are broken into groups of four. They list facts about the book that they've read in an ABC manner. For example A is for the letter that Hester wears in shame.
19. The Scarlet Letter Project Ideas
This project gives students three ideas for a project. Each of the ideas allows the students to be creative in some way such as writing a greeting card or making a model of a scene.
20. The Scarlet Letter Scandal Project
This project asks students to pick someone who is infamous and assign them a letter to wear. The student has to do research on the person, do a brief biography, and then explain why they chose the letter for the person.