Essential Questions:
1. How does your culture shape your identity?
2. What does literature teach us about our identities?
A. Opening Assignment: Write an 8 sentence paragraph
answering the following prompt. Your first sentence should
be your topic sentence, 6 sentences should answer the prompt,
and the last sentence should summarize your main point.
Mr. Pontellier is beginning to worry about Edna. He states
that he thinks she may be "unbalanced mentally." On
page 57 in response to his assumption, the narrator states,
"...he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily
casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment
with which to appear before the world."
What is happening to Edna? Is she really mentally unstable?
What does the narrator mean by explaining she is "casting
aside that fictitious self"?
B. Read chapters 16-22 of The Awakening.
Complete a NAN for chapter 17-18, 19-20, and 21-22.
C. Closing: Discuss the chapters you read and any
questions you have about your reading.
5th Period: Begin reading chapters 23-28.
1. How does your culture shape your identity?
2. What does literature teach us about our identities?
A. Opening Assignment: Write an 8 sentence paragraph
answering the following prompt. Your first sentence should
be your topic sentence, 6 sentences should answer the prompt,
and the last sentence should summarize your main point.
Mr. Pontellier is beginning to worry about Edna. He states
that he thinks she may be "unbalanced mentally." On
page 57 in response to his assumption, the narrator states,
"...he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily
casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment
with which to appear before the world."
What is happening to Edna? Is she really mentally unstable?
What does the narrator mean by explaining she is "casting
aside that fictitious self"?
B. Read chapters 16-22 of The Awakening.
Complete a NAN for chapter 17-18, 19-20, and 21-22.
C. Closing: Discuss the chapters you read and any
questions you have about your reading.
5th Period: Begin reading chapters 23-28.