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  {OPTIONAL FOR Spring 2026}

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  {OPTIONAL FOR Spring 2026}

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

Activity 6 (optional)

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

Activity 7  [OPTIONAL FOR SPRING 2026}

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.

Activity 8

Read the contemporary short story “How I Fell in Love with Richard Nixon” by Stanley Hoffman. The story contains guided reading questions and highlighted sections. It is the basis of your second essay assignment.

Essay 2

Due Sunday, March 8

Click here for Essay 2 directions

Before writing your essay, review the following materials:

Hypothesis assignment on Brightspace.

How to Insert Quotes into a Literary Essay.

Click to  see how your paper should look in MLA format.

Format Matters Video

 Format Illustration

MLA citation guide

Click this link for a video on how to eliminate extra spaces between paragraphs on Word.

Click here for essay grading rubric. 

Click here for a citation machine that will do your secondary source citations.

When you are ready to submit, navigate to your Brightspace course. On the homepage, click the “Essays” module and select “Essay 2.”

Activity 9

Quiz 5

This is a 10-question multiple-choice quiz on figurative language devices.  The test is timed, and students have 90 minutes to complete it. Test will be available from 9:00 on Monday, February 23 through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 1. Test will not be reopened after the closing date.
For study materials, click the links below, which also appear in Activity 4 on the Week 4 page.

Reviews of common literary terms.

Additional literary terms.

To access the quiz, navigate to your Brightspace course. On the homepage, click the “Review Quizzes” module and select Quiz 5.