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Lesson Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Aylmer's Motivation in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson on why Aylmer, the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark," undertakes his fatal experiment. Lesson contents contain literary text, strategies for analysis, and vocabulary.
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Unit Plan
Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Birthmark

For Students 9th - 10th
This short story by Nathaniel Hawthrone, The Birthmark, is one of Hawthorne's more well known short stories. Read about this story and its major characters and themes in this fascinating site.