Friday, May 5 working on graphic organizer for "The Story of an Hour"

Coming up:

Vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, May 9 (class hand out from Tuesday, May 2)

Here are the words again:

1. conjecture (noun)- a guess

2. anathema (noun) - a curse

3. prescience (noun)- forethought

4. bellicose (adjective)- loud

5. remonstrance- (noun)- protest

6 .maudlin (adjective)-  weepingly sentimental

7. guileless (adjective)- innocent

8. malevolent (adjective)- evil

9. propriety (noun)- decorum

Thematic share out for yesterday's discussion.

Please sit with your group.

What are you sharing exactly?  To what extent is your thematic topic valid in terms of the short story?

1. Marriage, regardless of the good intentions of the people it joins, necessarily results in repression and a loss of freedom.

2. Self-discovery, the search for one's identity, is both a fearful and joyful experience. 

3. Self-discovery for females is more challenging in a male dominated world. 

4. Marriage as an institution is inherently evil..