![Five ladies and two children in Victorian dress in a music room](https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/eng-201-intro-to-literature-spring-2021-conway/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2019/12/14583541487_ec896129e5_b-300x225.jpg)
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Activity 1
Click this link to access an interactive reading of “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin on the CommonLit website. You are not required to complete the assessment questions, but doing so may enhance your understanding of the story.
Activity 2
Click this link to read and listen to the poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson.
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Activity 3
Click this link to access an interactive reading of “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant on the CommonLit website. You are not required to complete the assessment questions, but doing so may enhance your understanding of the story.
Activity 4
Click this link to view a short Youtube video on the 19th Century Cult of Domesticity.
Activity 5
Please read the following article by Barbara Welter about
The Cult of True Womanhood
Activity 6
Please view this video lecture on “The Necklace.” I am going to expand it to include “The Story of an Hour” and “The Wife”; however, for now, Parts II and III must be read from the transcript.
Activity 7
Click this link to access the Week 8 discussion.
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