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Questions to ponder...
•What does Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" suggest about middle-class women's place and role(s) in this society?
•How does literature from this time period reflect the rapidly changing roles of American women in the nineteenth and early twentieth century?
*Readers in Gilman's time would have been familiar with Poe's stories. Are there any similarities between "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and "The Tell Tale Heart"?
In Class Assignment:
Please read and take notes (USE THE BACK OF THE ACTIVE READING CHART) on the following articles to get a sense of the time period as it relates to women and literature:
Domesticity in Turn of the Century Literature:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/rodriguez/GildedAge/Gilded%20Age%20Literature.html
A Brief History of the Women's Movement:
http://www.legacy98.org/move-hist.html
Overview of the time period in relation to "The Yellow Wallpaper":
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/charlotte-perkins-gilmans-yellow-wall-papermdashthe-new-woman#sect-introduction
Homework:
Complete the Active Reading Chart while reading "The Yellow Wallpaper":
http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/default/files/worksheets/Charlotte%20Perkins%20Gilman%27s%20The%20Yellow%20Wallpaper%20-%20The%20New%20Woman-%20Active%20Reading%20Chart.pdf
Links to the story online:
http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a0059.pdf
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/yellowwallpaper.pdf
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