Patterns of Development

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Patterns of Development

• Review of the First Four Types

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Sample I

• There are all kinds of devices for marking a book
  intelligently and fruitfully. Here's the way I do
  it
• Underlining of major points, of important or
  forceful statements.
• Vertical lines at the margin to emphasize a
  statement already underlined.
• Star, asterisk, or other doo-dad at the margin
  to be used sparingly, to emphasize the ten or
  twenty most important statements in the book. . .
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• Numbers in the margin to indicate the sequence
  of points the author makes in developing a single
  argument.
• Numbers of other pages in the margin to indicate
  where else in the book the author made points
  relevant to the point marked to tie up the ideas
  in a book, which, though they may be separated by
  many pages, belong together.
• Circling of key words or phrases.
• Writing in the margin, or at the top or bottom of
  the page, for the sake of recording questions
  (and perhaps answers) which a passage raised in
  your mind reducing a complicated discussion to a
  simple statement recording the sequence of major
  points right through the book. I use the
  end-papers at the back of the book to make a
  personal index of the author's points in the
  order of their appearance.
• Mortimer Adler, "How to Mark a Book." Saturday
  Review, July 6, 1940

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Sample II

• The barber was cutting our hair, and our eyes
  were closed--as they are so likely to be. . . .
  Deep in a world of our own, he heard, from far
  away, a voice saying goodbye. It was a customer
  of the shop, leaving. 'Goodbye,' he said to the
  barbers. 'Goodbye,' echoed the barbers. And
  without ever returning to consciousness, or
  opening our eyes, or thinking, we joined in.
  'Goodbye,' we said, before we could catch
  ourself. Then, all at once, the sadness of the
  occasion struck us, the awful dolor of bidding
  farewell to someone we had never seen. We have
  since wondered what he looked like, and whether
  it was really goodbye.
• E.B. White, "Sadness of Parting." The New
  Yorker, May 4, 1935

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Sample III

• In most respects, after all, Woodstock was a
  disaster. To begin with, it rained and rained for
  weeks before the festival, and then, of course,
  it rained during the festival. The promoters lost
  weeks of preparation time when the site had to be
  switched twice. They rented Yasgurs field less
  than a month before the concert. The stage wasnt
  finished, and the sound system was stitched
  together perilously close to the start of the
  show. As soon as the festival opened, the water-
  and food-delivery arrangements broke down, the
  gates and fences disintegrated, and tens of
  thousands of new bodies kept pouring in. (One
  powerful lure was the rumor that the revered Bob
  Dylan was going to perform he wasnt.) In
  response to an emergency appeal for volunteers,
  fifty doctors were flown in. The Air Force
  brought in food on Huey helicopters, and the
  Womens Community Center in Monticello sent
  thirty thousand sandwiches. One kid was killed as
  he was run over by a tractor, one died of
  appendicitis, and another died of a drug
  overdose.
• Hal Espen, The Woodstock Wars

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Sample IV

• The room was casually strewn with aging colonels
  and their wives, sitting amid carelessly folded
  Daily Telegraphs. The colonels were all shortish,
  round men with tweedy jackets, well-slicked
  silvery hair, an outwardly gruff manner that
  concealed within a heart of flint, and, when they
  walked, a rakish limp. Their wives, lavishly
  rouged and powdered, looked as if they had just
  come from a coffin fitting.
• Bill Bryson, Notes From a Small Island. William
  Morrow, 1995

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THE SCARLET LETTER

• Hawthorne possessed what one of his friends
  called the artful power of insight, and his
  fiction remains valuable chiefly because of its
  penetration into the essential truths of the
  human heart.
• Roy R. Male, PhD

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The Scarlet Letter

• In small groups (i.e. at your table), consider
  the following
• What role does shame play in correcting bad
  behavior?
• What is adultery? What constitutes it?
• What is the difference between a sin of passion
  and a sin of principle?
• Summary of Chapters 1-4
• Write a paragraph summary of the first four
  chapters. Keep it brief yet detailed.
• Characterization
• What can we tell about the primary and ancillary
  characters? Why is this significant?
• Are there any specific scenes that illustrate the
  characters well?
• Symbolism
• What symbols might exist in the text thus far?

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The Scarlet Letter

• Thematic Elements
• Alienation
• Appearance versus Reality
• Breaking Societys Rules
• Good from Evil
• Hypocrisy and Cowardice
• Rational versus Supernatural
• Revenge
• Rigidity and Legalism
• Self Respect
• Sin, Rejection, Redemption

• Activity
• Hawthorne spent a considerable amount of time
  describing the prison and prison door.
• Select a inanimate object and write a two
  paragraph description of that item.