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The Scarlet Letter escape rooms
5 self-checking escape rooms on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.
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The Scarlet Letter · ‘The Custom-House’ and Chapters 1–4The Wild RoseFree taster
The Scarlet Letter · Chapters 5–10The Elf-ChildFree taster
The Scarlet Letter · Chapters 11–15Midnight on the ScaffoldFree taster
The Scarlet Letter · Chapters 16–20A Flood of SunshineFree taster
The Scarlet Letter · Chapters 21–24The RevelationFree tasterRoom by room
- ‘The Custom-House’ and Chapters 1–4: The Wild Rose. The narrator's years at the Salem Custom-House and the old papers he finds there, the prison door and its rose-bush, Hester Prynne on the scaffold with her baby, the stranger in the crowd, the ministers who urge her to speak, and the physician's visit to her cell.
- Chapters 5–10: The Elf-Child. Hester's life of needlework at the edge of town, the strange child Pearl, the visit to Governor Bellingham's hall, the fight to keep Pearl, Mistress Hibbins at the window, and Roger Chillingworth's growing hold over Arthur Dimmesdale.
- Chapters 11–15: Midnight on the Scaffold. Dimmesdale's hidden suffering, his midnight vigil on the scaffold with Hester and Pearl, the light in the sky, the lost glove, the new meaning some give Hester's letter, her talk with Chillingworth by the shore, and Pearl's questions.
- Chapters 16–20: A Flood of Sunshine. Hester and Pearl's walk in the forest, Hester's meeting with Dimmesdale, the secret of Chillingworth, the plan to flee by ship, the letter thrown aside, Pearl at the brook, and the minister's strange walk home.
- Chapters 21–24: The Revelation. The Election Day holiday, the ship's captain's news, the procession and the sermon, Mistress Hibbins in the crowd, the minister on the scaffold with Hester and Pearl, and what becomes of Chillingworth, Pearl and Hester.