Week 05

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.

C.ick this link for a thought-provoking comment about “The Story of an Hour.”

Activity 2

Click this link to read the poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson.

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 access the 20th Century story “Another Evening at the Club” by Alifa Rifaat.

Activity 5 

Click this link for an overview of the 19th Century Cult of Domesticity/True Womanhood

(optional)
Click this link to view a short Youtube video on the 19th Century Cult of Domesticity/True Womanhood.

Activity 6

For a comprehensive discussion, read the following article by Barbara Welter about
The Cult of True Womanhood

Activity 7

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, The lecture on the Chopin Story and the poem must be read from the transcript.