This unit will consist of the follwing sections

Read the following article.

1. The Clinton administration had barely finished outlining its strategy to halt the rise of teen-age pregnancies when the naysayers began.

2. Other pilot programs aiming to curb teen-age pregnancies haven't worked, they argued. Those programs that did show promising results were too small a sampling to be representative of the entire nation, they said.

3. Well, pardon me for a little optimism, but our national policy on teen-age pregnancy for the last 20 years has been little more than a fight between the "Just say no!" zealots and the "It's inevitable, here's a condom" crowd.

4. Along comes a president with a plan to team up federal funds, a plea for abstinence and the use of peer mentors who counsel teens to postpone having children until they can care for them, and it's ludicrous to call it just another failed fancy of the Clinton agenda.

5. Consider what this plan is trying to do: First, it would pump $400 million in grants to more than 1,000 schools and high-risk neighborhoods over five years. Suggested programs are a pragmatic blend of recreational sports and activities, an older-student mentor program and family-planning information.

6. Second, the plan would require minor mothers to live at home, seek education or training and to work after receiving aid for two years. Third, Clinton has committed to using the bully pulpit of the presidency, as well as Cabinet posts, to promote abstinence and waiting for marriage to bear children. He proposes establishing a nonprofit foundation to work toward discouraging teen-age pregnancy.

Answer the following questions fully.

• What does the word "mentor" mean in paragraph 9?

• What would be a good title for this article?

• From reading paragraph 13, you could conclude that many girls have sex because....

• What are the four proposals?

Since this program has begun, relatively few mothers have named the fathers. Why do you suppose that is?

• How effective have the last twenty years of Government policy been on this issue?

• What is the tone of paragraphs 3 & 4?

What demands do single mothers put on a society?

Please read the story and answer the following questions.

1. Who does Brown meet in the forest?

Who does he look like?

Why would the author make that comparison?

2. If Brown doesn’t tell his wife where he is going, what does that say about his marriage?

Should there be open communication between husband and wife?

Is this a sin?

3. Where is this evil man?

Why might the author have him in the Forest?

4. What is the importance of his wife’s name, Faith?

5. Why is everyone in the town out in the woods?

Are they all hypocrites?

6. How would you avoid the devil in this case?

Is the devil doing true evil here?

What would an angel do

Think about the following questions and respond either orally or on paper.

• Why might residents of Boston in 1610 be more religious than residents of Dresden Germany or London, England?

• Do you expect teachers and others to be more moral and "better" than you are?

• Does love last forever?

Answer the following questions completely

1. What details does Hawthorne use to describe the people?

2. What is a Utopia?

Why would a Utopia need a prison?

Is this ironic? How?

3. How does he describe the rust?

Why might that be important?

4. What grows in front of the prison?

What significance do the black and ugly things have?

What does the rose bush signify?

5. Where did the rose come from?

What is the difference between the Hutchinson story and the Wilderness?

Answer the following questions fully.

1. What could they be waiting for?

Since they are puritans, what else could they be waiting for?

Would you spend a long time waiting for a whipping?

Why?

2. What were the women waiting for?

How do they look different from English women?

3. What punishment do they want for her?

Whymight they be so vicious?

Are they being religious?

4. What does the woman look like?

Why does she pull t he child close to her?

5. Her clothing is supposed to imitate her personality. What is she wearing?

What must her personality be like?

6. What is the scaffold for?

Answer the following questions. Use another sheet of paper.

1. Describe the setting in the Boston Center, when Hester is on the pillory?

2. What does the visitor look like?

What negative words and phrases are used to describe him?

Is he similar to the Satan in the "Goodman" story?

Explain.

3. The conversation with the neighbor is a literary trick called "Exposition" It allows an author to give you necessary information.

What information does Hawthorne give you in this discussion?

4. Why have the judges been merciful?

5. Why might Hester stare at the stranger?

Why would it be better to be amid all those people, than to be alone with him?

6. Is Reverend Wilson a kind man? Explain.

7. Describe Dimmesdale.

Answer the following questions.

1. How is Hester acting?

Why might she be this way?

Why is the kid freaking out?

2. Why wouldn’t she take the drugs?

3. Who is Chillingsworth?

4. Where did he learn about medecine?

Why might that be important?

5. Why does she drink her own mediecine so willingly?

6. What does Chillingworth want to know?

Why won’t she tell him?

What has happened to these three people so far in the novel?

• Dimmesdale:

• Chillingworth:

Identify the speaker of these quotes and the significance?

The quotes are not in chronological order.

"Are my purposes wont to be so shallow?"

"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"

"I have greatly wronged thee."

"I should take in hand to drive Satan out of her with stripes."

"My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire."

"My home is where thou art and where he is. But betray me not!"

Answer the following questions thoroughly. Use another sheet of paper.

1. Why would the ordinary days be more of a strain than her days in prison?

What would she become for the ministers?

2. Where will she stay?

Why?

How was it like a new birth?

How will it be a "martyrdom"

3. Where does Hester choose to live?

Why would she want to live there?

Why would the magistrates want her to live there?

4. What was Hester’s job?

Why was that an unusual job for a Puritan settlement?

How is the job emblematic of her nature?

What didn’t she embroider?

Why did she consider this a sin?

5. Did she ever feel that she was a part of society?

Answer the following questions carefully. Use another sheet of paper.

1. Complete the phrase: "A lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank _______________________________________

_________________________________."

What does that mean?

2. What is the child’s name?

Why is that doubly appropriate?

3. When he writes that the child was perfect, what biblical allusions does he use?

4. How does the "mood" of Pearl’s begetting affect the child?

5. How is Pearl an "imp of evil"?

How do the other children treat her?

6. What games do the Puritan children play?

Do those games strike you as Christian?

7. When does Pearl show anger?

Why does Hester take heart at this, as opposed to getting upset?