Thursday, October 31 "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Part 2


In Class Learning Targets:
  • Understand personification and simile
  • Explore how the narrator articulates her needs 
  • Consider the use of illustrations in prose

NOTE THAT, IF YOU WERE ABSENT YESTERDAY, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO CHECK THE BLOG AND COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS. SHARE THEM WITH 2006630.

Previously on...

 Personification is giving human-like qualities to nonhuman objects.


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The Yellow Wall-Paper Part 2 (pp. 649-653)


Directions
Open a Google Document with an MLA heading (title:  The Yellow Wall-Paper Part 2).  Answer the following questions in complete sentences using contextual evidence.  Be sure to cite page numbers when weaving in quotes from the story. Then share the document with 2006630 by midnight.

Sample Response
The narrator is spending the summer at “a colonial mansion” (647).  She thinks it is “queer” because it gives her a weird feeling.

1.)    Compare John with the Duke from "My Last Duchess." Discuss the patriarchal implications of power and control as described on page 649.

2.)    Describe how writing is therapeutic for the narrator.  What are the pros and cons she lists on pages 649-650?

3.)    The wallpaper creeps back into the narrative.  What are two examples of personification from pages 649-650?

4.)    The narrator "can see...design" in the wallpaper (650).  Describe the figure she sees in your own words.  What is the connotation of this description?

5.)    List 4 symptoms of the narrator's condition described on page 650.

 6.)    The narrator perseverates on the patterns found in the wallpaper.  She says she is "getting...wallpaper" and that "it dwells in [her] mind so" (650).  How might the description of the wallpaper on page 651 reflect her mental state?

7.)    What does the illustration on page 651 show literally and figuratively?

8.)    The narrator describes a womanly shape in the wallpaper using a simile, but it becomes so real that "the faint figure...[had] to get out" that she "got up" and moved (652).  What does this imply?

NY State Learning Standards
11-R1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis
11-R4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings
11-W5: Draw evidence from literary text to support analysis


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