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THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
This week’s plans…
MONDAY’S PLANS
•Re-reading the The Yellow Wallpaper entry by entry
•Discussion & Questions
FIRST ENTRY (38-40)
• How would you describe the story's setting? Why is the setting significant?
• What is the narrator's style of writing? What is her tone?
• What does the narrator believe would be the best cure for her? How does this contrast with what her husband and brother say?
SECOND ENTRY (40-44)
• How does the narration mimic the narrator's mental state?
• The wallpaper
• The furniture
• The room
• What other character is introduced? Who is she? What’s her role?
THIRD ENTRY (44-45)
• What is the narrator describing through this entry?
FOURTH ENTRY (45-46)
• What does this passage suggest about the relationship between the narrator and her husband?
• How would you characterize the narrator in this entry? How would you characterize the husband?
• What do we learn about the wallpaper?
• What have we learned about the narrator in this entry?
FIFTH ENTRY (46-49)
• How would you describe the narrator's mental state?
• How has she changed?
• What is her tone at this point in the story?
SIXTH ENTRY (49-50), SEVENTH ENTRY (50-51), EIGHTH ENTRY (51), NINTH ENTRY (51-52),
& TENTH ENTRY (52)
• What do you notice about the narrator's diction?
• How does the narration change?
ELEVENTH ENTRY (53-55)
• What is the woman’s plan? What is she doing?
• What does the narrator mean by, "I got out at last?"
• What does the ending of this story suggest about the woman behind the wall-paper?
TUESDAY’S PLANS
•The Yellow Wallpaper Video Clip
•Group work with post reading questions
•Discussion
WEDNESDAY’S AND THURSDAY’S PLANS
•Yellow Wallpaper Stations
FRIDAY’S PLANS
•Yellow Wallpaper Conclusions Discussion
•Symbols Discussion
CONCLUSION ARGUMENTS
• After reading the three different conclusions, pick the conclusion that you agree with the most.
• You’ll break up into groups to work on these arguments, then present as a group.
YOUR CHOICES
• Argument 1: “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story that presents two people who are both trapped in their gender roles. The narrator is a wife who is frustrated because she can’t communicate what she really thinks and wants. Her husband, John, is a well-known doctor who isn’t sure how to help her.
• Argument 2: “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story about a woman who is confined and silenced. In the end, she is defeated as she finally gives in to the madness and is found creeping along the floor of the room.
• Argument 3: “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story about a woman, who though she is confined and silenced, triumphs. In the end, she achieves a greater sense of self as she acts out her madness.
SYMBOLS, IMAGERY, & THEME
• What symbols have we found in The Yellow Wallpaper?
• What do they mean?
• How does Gilman use them to make her point?
• What imagery did Gilman use?
• Was this effective?
• What did it do to the story?
• What themes are present in The Yellow Wallpaper?
• The moral of the story?
• Modernism themes?