The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1. Read the novel. Free version here - or Kindle version here. You can also listen for free here

2. Watch the Vincent Price movie. You can watch it for free here

3. Author Biography - take a book out of the library (e.g. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda Wineapple) or read about Hawthorne at one of the following sites;
http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/hawthorne.asp
http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/hawthorn.htm
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/hawthor.htm
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal7/contents/B/authors/hawthorne.asp
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Elegy -  http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/nhlong.html

4. Context resources for American Romanticism
American Romanticism
The House of Seven Gables
Hawthorne in Salem

5. Read Unit 4 of Excellence in American Literature and follow any links and trails that interest you.

6. Complete the written assignments on Pages 63-64 of Excellence in American Literature.

7. Honors/Extra reading this month - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walden by Henry David Thoreau

8. Go through the list of discussion questions and prepare for the group meeting.