Style: Translating Stylistic Choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and Back Again

Materials and Technology

Printouts

Websites

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Additional texts by Hawthorne and Hemingway, or the authors you've chosen for this activity, for students to refer to if needed.

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PRINTOUTS

• Collaborative Style Activity, Part 1
  
  
• Collaborative Style Activity, Part 2
  
  
• Adopting Hawthorne's Style

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WEBSITES

• Aesop's Fables, from the Gutenberg Project
• Checklist: Elements of Literary Style

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PREPARATION

• If your students have not worked on stylistic analysis before, you might complete the Style: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices lesson plan before beginning this activity.
  
  
• Students should have a working knowledge of the authors who are discussed in this activity. The activity is ideal for students who have read at least one Hemingway short story or novel and a substantial piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne, such as The Scarlet Letter. The activities in this lesson are from Hemingway and Hawthorne; however, the activity could be modified to work with other authors as well.
  
  
• If desired, select additional fables from Aesop's Fables, from the Gutenberg Project.
  
  
• Make copies of the handouts.

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