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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper. A story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Personal Connections.

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The Yellow Wallpaper

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  1. The Yellow Wallpaper A story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  2. Personal Connections • What is your mental picture of someone suffering from a “nervous condition”? Would the person more likely be male or female? Why? Young or old? What symptoms might the person have? What would be the best treatment for the condition? • Take 5 minutes to jot down some thoughts and then share out within your groups.

  3. Historical connections • Our next selection was written in 1890 when women-especially non-working middle class and upper-class women suffered from a variety of physical and mental disorders. If they sought medial treatment and no organic cause was found their ills were often diagnosed as vague trivial nervous conditions curable through isolation and prolonged rest. Today it is believed that many of these disorders were caused by the stress of living within the rigid social roles of the 1800’s. • What do you think?

  4. Connections to the reading • This story is a first person narrative. • What is a narrative? • What is first person? • The story is told in the form of her journal entries. Much of what happens seems distorted or unexplained. Therefore you will have to make inferences based on the details that the narrator gives you. Examine the events of the story, critically.

  5. About the author • As a group you will create a mini brochure about our newest author. This brochure must include a photo and a minimum of 20 facts. • Include a section on mental disorders. Our narrator suffers from depression. What problems can depression cause. How and why do people suffer from depression? • The brochure should have a “Words to Know” section in which you list 25 words that your group would like to know. • Have fun with it! • Don’t just hand write 20 facts on apiece of white paper and turn it in.

  6. Personal dictionaries • In your brochure you completed a “Words to Know” Section. Now you will take those words and create a personal dictionary. As a group you will create a dictionary that contains the 25 selected words. • This dictionary should be in a book form with a front and back cover. • The personal dictionaries should contain everything that is in a published dictionary. (Word, Pronunciation, Part of Speech, Definition, etc.)

  7. Required Vocabulary Words • Atrocious • Basely • Felicity • Derision • Impertinence • Inanimate • Patent • Perseverance • Querulous • Undulating (Undulate)

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