Realism

This unit examines five short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Kake Chopin, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Edith Wharton. As we examine these works for connections to the literary movements of Realism and Regionalism, we also will be looking at how characters are developed within these stories.

**Enduring Understanding: **
 * Social roles, influenced by time and place, are oppressive for the individual.

**Essential Questions: **
 * What influences the decisions we make? How does our society form the decisions we are given in our lives? Who determines societal roles and how do societal roles change over time?


 * Students will show that they can: **

Explain mood and tone of text. Explain the impact of imagery on a literary work. Compare and contrast character’s traits and motivations. · Protagonist · Antagonist · Round character · Flat character · Dynamic character · Static character <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">· Motivation <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">- Foil <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Apply reading strategies to analyze literature: inference. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Determine the importance of diction and syntax in a piece: colloquialism and dialect. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Feminist Criticism <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Structuralism & binary opposition <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Psychoanalytic Criticism

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A powerpoint introducing the literary movement of Realism:



<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">and to take notes from the powerpoint ...

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Introducing Feminist Theory:



<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Applying feminist theory to Gillman's "Yellow Wallpaper"



<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">... and Chopin's[| "The Story of an Hour"]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Applying Structuralism and Binary Opposition to Crane's "Mystery of Heroism"

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