October 19, 2017

Class Work
Activity #1: Peer Editing of the introductory essay.
You will have three editors. Sign your name at the top of the rubric and attach it to your draft.
Editor #1 will read for content.
Editor #2 will read for clarity
Editor #3 will read for grammar, usage, and mechanics. (GUM)

Review the comments. Revise your draft. Post the final copy in CANVAS. It is due October 24, 2017 at 7:00 am. 


 Activity #2
. Enter the time machine and travel back to the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.
Things were different then.
A. Look at the art of the time. What are women doing? What are men doing?
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/slideshows/american-impressionists-of-the-late-1800s-and-early-1900s.html#slide_1
B. . A slice of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugh7pRtzTAQ Again, what are the women doing? What about the men?

Activity #3 Read: "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin   https://my.hrw.com/support/hos/hostpdf/host_text_219.pdf

A. Silently read the story. Then work with a partner and  create a mind map for Mrs. Mallard (Listen for the instructions.  Paper will be provided.)

B. Discussion to follow . . . What really killed Mrs. Mallard? Find lines in the story that prove your point.

C. 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
Class discussion to follow.
Activity #4
A.  What yellow things are in "The Yellow Wallpaper?"Take out your lists/highlighted pages and at your table discuss how the "yellow" changed in the story. Go through it page by page. Write comments for each page on the paper provided. Be sure you names appear at the top of the page.

B. How might the story have been different if the wall paper had been a different color?

• Select a color for your table to consider. Each table must have a different color.
• Research that color. (5 minute activity)
• Compose a list of 10 changes you might expect if the wallpaper had been a different color.
• Do this on the discussion A sheet.

Activity #5 - This activity will be done on Tuesday.

Now that you have read the short story, do you think the protagonist was suffering a mental breakdown, or was she the victim of something supernatural? What evidence exists to support your point of view? 

• Take a look at this site. http://www.virtualsalt.com/gothic.htm
• For homework - 
• Look back at "The Yellow Wallpaper" and make a list of all of the gothic items presented in the story
• OR
• Make a list of actions and words that suggest that the protagonist was unstable and/or suffering from illness, 

Post your list in CANVAS. (25 points) Due Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:00 am.

 Activity #6: 
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)
Due: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 7:00 am.

More  Homework

 Conduct some investigative reporting on post-partum depression, depression in general, and the treatment of both types in the late 1800s and early 1900s.Consult at least two sources.

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

 AND

B.  Look up information about Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper." Make a list of 10 items or events  you found interesting about her life. For each, explain how it was or was not typical of the time, or explain what it might have had to do with Ms. Gilman writing "The Yellow Wallpaper." Consult three different sources. Keep track of your sources and include your Works Cited at the end of your list. MLA Style, please.  (See https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ for guidelines. Feel free to use www.easybib.com ) Due Tuesday, October 24, 2017, at 7:00 am.
B. Research the life and times of Kate Chopin, the author of "Story of an Hour."  List ten events from her life that you found interesting, unique, or important. Do any relate to the story?  Explain. Again, consult at least three sources and include the sources in MLA format at the end of your list. Due Tuesday, October 24, 2017, at 7:00 am.