January 26, 2017 - Thursday

Leftovers

Table Activity: The Name Game - How important are names in a story. Find the meanings of the names of the characters from "The Story of an Hour."

To begin, look up information about mallard ducks. What do the ducks and Mr. and Mrs. Mallard have in common, if anything?

Find the meanings of these names on-line at a What to Name the Baby or Meanings of Names site.

Josephine

Richards

Brently

Louise

  What yellow things are in "The Yellow Wallpaper?" (groups - pages assigned)

Discussion: How did the "yellow" change in the story?

Now, take a look at this site. http://www.virtualsalt.com/gothic.htm

Look back at "The Yellow Wallpaper" and make a list of all of the gothic items. This leads to the question, Is the narrator in the story crazy, or is the house haunted? Perhaps the story contains a bit of both.

New Today - Table discussions - listen for your number

1. Look at your notes from the life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. What parallels do you see between the life of the author and the events in "The Yellow Wallpaper?" https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/exhibition/woman-human-life-and-work-charlotte-perkins-gilman

2. What events in the life of Kate Chopin might have led her to write "Story of an Hour?" https://www.katechopin.org/biography/

Discuss with your group. Prepare to share with the class. Assign a recorder and a discussion leader for your group. All must speak! The recorder will share he information with the class.

Homework

 3. View the PBS movie of the short story of "The Yellow Wallpaper.".(We will begin in class.)

Be the critic.

• Rate each segment.
• What do you like about it?
• What is weak?
• If you were the director, what would you change?

Finish viewing for homework.  Post your ratings, reactions, and changes in Canvas. Be sure to label the segments.

Movie in 8 parts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54A86EACAA247777 (Click each segment to move along.) (40 points)

 4. Conduct some investigative reporting on post partum depression, depression in general, and the treatment of both types in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

A.  Write a paragraph or two that summarizes the information you read. Include the URL for each site you visited.

B. Then, write two or three paragraphs and relate that information to John's treatment of the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper." Be sure to answer: Is this a "haunted house", or was the narrator driven mad by the cure? (50 points) Post in Canvas.