KE / UJ ISI English HL 1 & 2 (Weeks 11 & 12)
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Warm-Up: Translations & Modals
Listening:
Stereotypes and Gender Roles
Reading: Chapter Six IB pp. 214 - 215 & Interactive oral activity
(Think Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Discussion Questions
How does the description of the wallpaper change over time?
Could the wallpaper be a different color?
How does the yellow affect the reader?
What would a different color do to the story?
How would you characterize the narrator's initial reaction to, and description of, the wallpaper?
By the final section of the story, what is the narrator's relationship to her husband? to Jennie? to the wallpaper?
How has the narrator's perspective changed from the start of the story?
What change do we see in her actions?
Symbols:
*Nursery: The nursery symbolizes the way John treats his wife—like a child incapable of making her own decisions.
*Wallpaper: The wallpaper represents the barrier that the male-dominated society has erected against women.
*Yellow: The sickly color symbolizes the mental state of the narrator, as well as the blandness of the life she leads.
*Garden: The garden represents the development and growth denied to the narrator by her husband and by social standards and expectations.
*Greenhouses: They are all broken, just as the narrator's desire to flourish as a writer is broken by her husband.
*The narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity. The wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.
*The ugliness with which the wallpaper is described could be compared to the ugliness of her situation. She is being oppressed by the men in her life and by her inability to break the chains of their dominance in order to escape
*The woman trapped behind the yellow wallpaper is the narrator herself. By pulling down this wallpaper, the narrator feels that she is tearing away the malevolent forces that restrict her [yellow is the color of evil], or "wall" her in.
Literary Devices:
*Verbal Irony: In her journal, the narrator uses verbal irony often, especially in reference to her husband: “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” Obviously, one expects no such thing, at least not in a healthy marriage. Later, she says, “I am glad my case is not serious,” at a point when it is clear that she is concerned that her case is very serious indeed.
*Dramatic Irony: when the narrator first describes the bedroom John has chosen for them, she attributes the room’s bizarre features—the “rings and things” in the walls, the nailed-down furniture, the bars on the windows, and the torn wallpaper—to the fact that it must have once been used as a nursery. Even this early in the story, the reader sees that there is an equally plausible explanation for these details: the room had been used to house an insane person.
*Situational Irony: For example, John’s course of treatment backfires, worsening the depression he was trying to cure and actually driving his wife insane. Similarly, there is a deep irony in the way the narrator’s fate develops. She gains a kind of power and insight only by losing what we would call her self-control and reason.
*Metaphor: You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.
*Anaphora: Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.I don't know why I should write this. I don't want to. I don't feel able.
*Simile and Personification: I remember what a kindly wink the knobs of our big, old bureau used to have, and there was one chair that always seemed like a strong friend.
Alliteration: with windows that look all ways The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it. It is stripped off—the paper in great patches all around the head of my bed. . . . The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.
*Extended Metaphor: The whole story is an extended metaphor
Comprehension Questions:
What does the yellow wallpaper represent?
Why was she stuck in the house?
What was the significance of her ripping the wallpaper off the walls?
How does the time period affect the series of events?
How does her husband’s attitude make the situation worse?
How do her actions reflect how she is treated by her husband?
Can her condition be treated? Explain.
Explain how the window access makes her condition worse.
How can her room placement be seen as ironic?
What does the yellow wallpaper represent?
Why was she stuck in the house?
What was the significance of her ripping the wallpaper off the walls?
How does the time period affect the series of events?
How does her husband’s attitude make the situation worse?
How do her actions reflect how she is treated by her husband?
Can her condition be treated? Explain.
Explain how the window access makes her condition worse.
How can her room placement be seen as ironic?
What are the similarities between her feelings and the location of the home?____
P.S. Mock Oral Practice (plan for next Monday) I will be shortening the exam albeit slightly)
Listening: two mock oral exams from May 2022 session
Works you may choose from:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Animal Farm
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Grammar: Cause and Effect
Here are a list of effects. You MUST contruct a cause-effect relationship, using the prompts below.
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Writing Workshop: A Formal Letter
Criteria: Cambridge IB pp. 274-275
Sample Formal Letter: https://www.thinkib.net/media/ib/englishb/files/Basic%20Formal%20Letter.pdf
Writing Prompt:
You will be tasked with writing a formal letter to the Director of our school, explaining all of the positive and negative aspects of your educational experience. Please respect all of the conventions. It must be 450 - 600 words.
Take-Home: Mock Exam Formal vs. Informal Letter
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Christmas Card Workshop
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Media & Violence + Podcast
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The Real History of Thanksgiving + Activities
1. Short Story: Why he carried the turkey by James Baldwin.
Mini-Mock Exam:
HOMEWORK: Review of Punctuation
Cheat Sheet:
Cultural Lesson: The US Government
Geography of the U.S.
Readings in American History (TBD)
Activity Civics Test: https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/find-study-materials-and-resources/study-for-the-test-2008-version/2008-civics-practice-test
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