LEARNING TARGETS:  by the end of class today you should be able to

• Analyze/Interpret/Explain Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

In class activities:  in class we read and discussed The Story of an Hour which is linked here and also finished the Mark Twain video we started on Wednesday.

REMINDER: CONTENT QUIZ ON FRIDAY

• End of Colonial era
  • Common Sense: Paine
  • Declaration of Independence
  • King: Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Romanticism
  • Poe: Tell Tale Heart
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Irving: The Devil and Tom Walker
• Realism
  • Bierce:  “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
  • Twain: “Life on the Mississippi”
  • Chopin” “Story of an Hour”
• Literary Terms to know
  • Faust Legend
  • Parallellism
  • Irony
    • Situational
    • Dramatic
    • Verbal
  • Juxtaposition