American Literature
The Yellow Wallpaper
Short Story
by
CHARLOTTE PERKINS
GILMAN
Text Page 765
KEY STANDARD
• R 3.0
• Read and respond to
historically or culturally
significant works of
literature;
• Analyze recurring patterns
and themes
Name: ___________ Period __ Date: Mar. 18, 2013
Topic: The Yellow Wallpaper
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Main
Ideas/Questions/Cues/Conn
ections/Keywords
1. Genre
2. Author
3. Key Standard
NOTES
800
pts
1. Short Story
2. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
3. R3.0 Read and respond to historically or
culturally significant works of literature;
analyze recurring patterns and themes
Other Standards: R2.0, R3.5
4. Medical Practices
4. Connect to Your
Life
bloodletting
Discontinued
Medical
Treatment
Magic
potions
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Main
Ideas/Questions/Cues/Conn
ections/Keywords
5
BUILD
BACKGROUND
a) Who?
NOTES
5. BUILD BACKGROUND
WHO:
b) What?
WHAT:
c) Where?
WHERE:
d) When?
WHEN:
e) Why?
WHY:
f) How?
HOW:
6
Who is a FIRSTPERSON
NARRATOR?
6. The narrator of a story…
7
Explain how to
make inferences
about the
narrator.
7. Logical guesses based on..
As you read…
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Ideas/Questions/Cues/Conn
ections/Keywords
8
WORDS TO
KNOW
a) atrocious
NOTES
8. WORDS TO KNOW (find more details on
www.merriam-webster.com)
a) 769 (find more on-line for denotations,
examples, synonyms, antonyms)
b) 768
b) basely
c) 778
c) derision
d) 766
d) felicity
e) 770
e) impertinence
f) 770
f) inanimate
g) 776
g) patent
h) 770
h) perseverance
i) 772
i) querulous
j) 773
j) undulating
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AMERICAN
LITERATURE
11th Grade
atrocious
basely
derision
felicity
impertinence
inanimate
patent
perseverance
querulous
undulating
Name: ___________ Period __ Date: Mar. 19, 2013
Topic: The Yellow Wallpaper
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Main
Ideas/Questions/Cues/Connecti
ons/Keywords
1. What are the
advantages and
limitations of firstperson narration?
NOTES
500
pts
1. Advantages: In first-person narration,
the reader is pulled into the story
through the narrator’s ________,
________, and _______.
Limitations: The reader learns only what
the narrator _____ and _____ about
events and other characters.
2. “John laughs at me,
of course, but one
2. The narrator does not expect a …
expects that in
marriage.”
What can you infer
about the narrator
and her ideas about
marriage from this
remark?
Use the following
words: observant,
flawed, pragmatic.
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Main
Ideas/Questions/Cues/Conn
ections/Keywords
3
4
5
6
Why is the
narrator writing
in secret?
Describe the
relationship
between the
narrator and her
husband.
“There comes
John, and I must
put this away- he
hates to have me
write a word.”
“We have been
here two weeks,
and I haven’t felt
like writing
before, since that
first day.”
NOTES
3. Her husband and brother dis________.
4. The narrator is sub______ to her husband;
he treats her like a _____.
5. People who hate their activities do so out
of fear of punishment.
You can infer that the narrator …
6. Refusing to refrain from a forbidden
activity indicate hostility and
stubbornness.
You can infer that the narrator …
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Main
Ideas/Questions/Cues/Conn
ections/Keywords
7
What do the
details about the
room suggest
about its
function?
NOTES
7. The heavy bedstead, the barred windows,
and the gate at the top of the stairs
suggest a _________ or ________.
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