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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
Midterm Quiz
This is a 25-question multiple-choice test that covers all material from Week 1 through Week 9. Special emphasis is on conventions of ancient Greek theatre and identification of literary terms in examples from readings. (See Weeks 5 and 6 pages).
Test will be available from 9:00 Monday, March 20 until 5:00 Sunday, March 26. Students have 90 minutes to complete the test, which must be done in one sitting. Once the test has closed, it will become unavailable and unviewable to students.
To access the quiz, please navigate to your Blackboard course. On the black navigation panel, click “Links to Quizzes.” Then click the link to Midterm Quiz.
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Activity 8
Click this link to access the Week 9 discussion.
Click here for information about How Discussion Boards Work.
Click here for information about How Discussion Boards Are Graded.
Reminder: Essay First draft is due this Sunday, March 26th.
