Wednesday, October 30 "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Part 1

NY State Learning Standards

11-R1: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis

11-R4: I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings

11-W5: I can draw evidence from literary text to support analysis

Important note: marking period 1 work should all be in!
New work for quarter 2 began yesterday with the notebook writing on mood in "The Yellow Wallpaper." If you were absent, make sure you complete this assignment.

There is no new vocabulary for next week.

In class: 

• Background on author
• Explore exposition (setting, characters, and mood) 
• Consider the writing style, purpose, and intended audience
• Begin reading
• Accompanying 5 questions to be shared: 2006630

Who was Charlotte Perkins?

Ø  Women’s Rights Activist, writer, lecturer, theorist

Ø  Born 1860

Ø  Abandoned early by father, raised by mother

Ø  Married artist Charles Stetson

o   1884

o   Katharine Beecher Stetson (1885)

o   Severe depression/unusual treatments

o   Separated in 1888, divorced 1894

Ø  Remarried to George Gilman, 1900-1934

Ø  Died by suicide 1935

             
What was it like to be a woman in the 1890s?

Women’s Suffrage Movement / Progressive Era

Ø  Social/political movements in response to/partnered with abolitionist movement

Ø  American Equal Rights Association (1866)

Ø  Urbanization and the rise of the middle class

o   Traditional: servants in shops/factories until marriage (housewife)

o   Retail jobs, teaching, some business opportunities

Ø  Health Issues

o   Birth control illegal 1873
o   Hysteria and postpartum depression

The Yellow Wall-Paper Part 1 (pp. 647-649)

Directions: 

Open a Google Document with an MLA heading (title:  The Yellow Wall-Paper Part 1).  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.)    How does the narrator describe her husband, John?

2.)    The narrator says she is “sick” (647).  Based on the reading and our discussion, what is her condition?

3.)    How does the narrator want to spend her time healing?  What does her husband suggest as treatment?

4.)    How does the narrator describe the wallpaper?  Make a prediction of its importance.

5.)    What type of writing is this?  What is the purpose of this writing?  Who is the intended audience?

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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