Dr' Heideggers Experiment

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Dr. Heideggers Experiment

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Aging Gracefully

• What do you like most about being the age you are
  right now?
• What aspects of growing older are you looking
  forward to?
• What aspects of growing older are undesirable to
  you?
• Do you think youth and age should be measured by
  the years a person has lived or by a persons
  behavior and outlook?

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Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing a writers use of hints or clues
  to indicate events that will happen later in a
  story.
• Allegory a work with two layers of meaning
  where persons, objects, and events stand for
  abstract qualities or ideas. An allegory has a
  symbolic level of meaning in addition to its
  literal level. or figurative,
• Some allegories teach a moral or lesson.
• In The Tortoise and the Hare, the slow, focused
  actions of the tortoise are favorable to the
  cunning, but easily distracted hare.
• Dr. Heideggers Experiment is an example of an
  allegorical tale.
• Hawthornes characters are not realistic, fully
  developed characters. Instead they seem more like
  representations of ideas.

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Study Sheet for Dr. Heideggers Experiment
(pp.500-514) Front Back

• Literary Terms
• Write the literary terms and their definitions
• Foreshadowing (p.500)
• Allegory (p.500)
• Readers Notebook Exercise (p.500)
• As you read, create a chart like the one below.
• Identify an abstract quality or idea that each of
  the
• four guests in the story might represent.

Answer the following question using the P.I.E.
format (Point, Information, Explanation) Think
Critically (p.514) 2 3 4 Extend
Interpretations (p.514) 7 Create a paragraph
answer that contains two extended examples.
(Topic Sentence, Point, Information (Quote),
Explanation, Transition Word or Phrase, Point,
Information (Quote), Explanation, Conclusion
Sentence) Make sure to provide a quote from
each story in the question