Friday, November 1 "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Part 3



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

In Class Learning Targets:

  • Evaluate the narrator's sense of reality
  • Reflect on the resolution (end of the story) 
  • Consider the use of extended metaphor

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The Yellow Wall-Paper Part 3 (pp. 653-656/end)


Directions
Open a Google Document with an MLA heading (title:  The Yellow Wall-Paper Part 3).  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 is the narrator "improving"? She even says, "I'm feeling so much better" (653).  Do you agree? What can you infer about her mental state? 

2.)    The woman in the wallpaper breaks out on page 654.  What are some of the places the narrator sees her?  What does this "creeping" connotate?

3.)    How does the narrator describe her husband on page 655?  How is this different from the beginning?  How is it the same?

4.)    The lines separating the narrator and the woman in the wallpaper are blurred as the narrator tears the wallpaper off the wall.  What does this say about the narrator's sense of reality? What does the woman in the wallpaper represent?

5.)    How does the story end?  How do you feel about it?



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