Due Thursday, March 10
1. Print and Read "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin (link to the right of this post)
2. Print and Read " The Storm" by Kate Chopin (link to the right of this post)
3. Read "A&P" by John Updike (in the text)
1. Print and Read "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin (link to the right of this post)
2. Print and Read " The Storm" by Kate Chopin (link to the right of this post)
3. Read "A&P" by John Updike (in the text)
Work on Your Paper! Visit the Writing Center if you need any additional assistance. The Writing Center is located in Greenley Library on the Second Floor.
PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO ATTACH A RUBRIC TO YOUR PAPER.
NOTE TO ALL OF MY CLASSES- CONTINUATION OF NOTES
Time Period – 19th Century
America -
REALISM 1855-1900 (Period of Civil War and Postwar period)
REALISM 1855-1900 (Period of Civil War and Postwar period)
·
Civil
War (USA) 1861-1865
(What was America experiencing during this time?)
(What was America experiencing during this time?)
·
America
was experiencing many changes.
Restoration of the country after the Civil war and building urban areas throughout the U.S.
Restoration of the country after the Civil war and building urban areas throughout the U.S.
·
The
Civil War ushered both men and women into a new social identity
.
.
·
The
Women’s Rights Movement had been gathering momentum since 1848
and the first conference was held in Seneca Falls, NY.
and the first conference was held in Seneca Falls, NY.
·
For
the first time (during Kate’s lifetime)
women began to mobilize (movement, energize) and bring to light the private issues of home and family to the public.
women began to mobilize (movement, energize) and bring to light the private issues of home and family to the public.
·
The
Civil War brings forth a type of literature that is
“true” “real” and does not idealize people or places. In a sense it depicts the reality of life and human behavior.
“true” “real” and does not idealize people or places. In a sense it depicts the reality of life and human behavior.
·
According
to literary periods and their characteristics,
“Social realism: aims to change a specific social problem and aesthetic realism:
art that insists on detailing the world as one sees it”
“Social realism: aims to change a specific social problem and aesthetic realism:
art that insists on detailing the world as one sees it”
Chopin
wrote The Storm in 1898. It was first published in The Complete Works of
Kate Chopin in 1969. (71 years later)
Setting
– Late 19th century Louisiana
Please READ
the following selections for Homework!
“A&P” by John Updike
“ The Storm” by Kate Chopin
“ The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin
Updike is in
the Text
Chopin
stories will be posted on the Blog
Short Story Unit Also Includes the
following Selections!
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte
Perkins Gillman
Romanticism
“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest
Hemingway
Modernism
“White Woman of Color” by Julia Alvarez
Post Modernism
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpha
Lahiri
Post-Modernism
The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Transcendentalism
After Hawthorne’s Birthmark we will wrap up the semester with Poetry!
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