The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Current Events & Pop Culture
Available to teachers only as part of the Teaching The Scarlet Letter Teacher Pass
Teaching The Scarlet Letter Teacher Pass includes:
- Assignments & Activities
- Reading Quizzes
- Current Events & Pop Culture articles
- Discussion & Essay Questions
- Challenges & Opportunities
- Related Readings in Literature & History
Sample of Current Events & Pop Culture
Hester Prynne "In Character"
In March, 2008, NPR's series "In Character" featured, you guessed it, "Hester Prynne: Sinner, Victim, Object, Winner." The piece includes analysis by literary critics and Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike, who confesses why a particular passage describing Prynne's hair always makes him cry. Listen to the podcast and/or read the transcript here.