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Scarlet Letter Analysis Form, Structure and Plot: The structure that Hawthorne puts the Scarlet Letter is very tight, and is in essentially three parts, each revolving around the scaffold. The first scaffold scene, Hester confesses her sin of adultery to the crowd in the light of day. The second scaffold scene takes place in the middle of the book at night; it is the climax of the plot. Dimmesdale climbs onto the scaffold, and asks for Hester and Pearl to join him. This is not a confession, as there

Critically examine the relation of socioeconomic status to children’s linguistic experience and development Socioeconomic status (SES) is – primarily – the product of income, education and occupation; SES is typically banded into three categories (low, middle and high). SES and child development are multifaceted variables; many factors that affect child development covary with SES – as a result of this, direct cause-effect relationships are often difficult to uncover (Hoff, 2003). Although SES is

For centuries, American literature has served as indication on the power of words to articulate encouragement for change by creating a call to action. Indeed, literature “the art that expresses life in words” (Tanvir, Para. 4) has the ability to transform the comprehensive human race. Consequently, literature serves as a record of all the dreams that made such change a possibility throughout history. Each successive era, literature begins and ends with great writers communicating their own message

a.) I designed my lesson plan to be used in first and second grade. This lesson plan was designed to be a cross curriculum lesson about spiders that incorporates the following subject areas: Science, Language Arts, and Visual/Performance Arts. This lesson will be taught during the month of October after students have gained prior knowledge through an insect unit that was taught the month before. (b.) The content object that I used in this lesson was for students to be able to identify important

This study aims to answer the following research question: How does a bilingual English-Spanish speaker, who reported learning difficulties, processes reading through analyzing her miscues during reading out loud sessions? This descriptive question proposes to study and understand the particularities of one individual 's reading process through in-depth sociopsycholinguistic, transactive analysis of this individual 's miscues in reading out loud sessions. Since this study pertains the description

Rhetorical Devices Style is part of classical rhetoric and a number of rhetorical devices are worth considering in any analysis of style. For the analysis of literature a knowledge of rhetorical devices is indispensable, since there is often a considerable density of rhetorical figures and tropes which are important generators and qualifiers of meaning and effect. This is particularly the case in poetry. Especially the analysis of the use of imagery is important for any kind of literary text. (For

Mistakes are an essential part of learning languages, there’s no way that you can reach fluency without making lots and lots of mistakes. The purpose of making mistakes it to learn from them. An excellent strategy is to learn your lesson as quickly as possible and move on, better and stronger than you were before. If your experience of learning a language is filled with stressful emotions you’re much more likely to give up. Always remember that mistakes are the gateway to improvement and are essential

“The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.” Descriptive adjectives help a reader picture the setting in their mind and also understand the mood in the story. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen,

Hmong is a Miao-Yiao language spoken primarily in Southern China, Thailand and Laos. According to Ethnologue.com, there are over 5.7 million people who speak the language all around the world. Over 95,000 Hmong people have settled in the United States. Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal language. This means that it consists primarily of one syllable words where the tone of a word affects the meaning. The Hmong dialect is branched from the Chuanqiandian dialect into two separate ones; known as ‘Njua’

Everyone, if not most people, is familiar with the question that asks, “If a tree falls in a forest and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Artists of all types, from poets to painters, strive to answer this question by preserving and bringing this sound to light to the best of their abilities. Joy Harjo and Art Spiegelman attempt to preserve a moment in time with their own work. In Source 1, Spiegelman attempts to save a legacy by jotting down his father’s memories while they’re shared