Kate Chopin

1. Meet with your group and decide which of the group tasks each person will complete
2. Complete tasks listed under Group Tasks – all work should either be typed or neatly hand written in blue or black ink
3. When all group tasks are completed, meet with your group and share what you learned, compile your tasks into a group report that includes a cover page with each member’s name and the task they completed
4. Complete Individual Essay and turn in for a grade

1. Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and how is she a significant figure in the Women’s Rights Movement?
2. On what day did the Women’s Rights Movement begin?
3. What was the Declaration of Sentiments
4. Describe public reaction to the Declaration of Sentiments
5. In what year did women finally earn the right to vote and with what Amendment?
6. Read through the topics discussed on the Women’s Rights Movement from North to South and give a brief summary of five things you learned from this page

Living the Legacy: The Women’s Rights Movement 1848-1998 - http://www.legacy98.org/move-hist.html#Intro

Women’s Rights Movement from North to South -http://www.loyno.edu/~kchopin/Women's%20Rights.htm

Using the links below, answer the questions

1. Describe how life was changing at the turn of the century and the feelings of the people living during this time.
2. Describe Louisiana during this time.
3. How did the Industrial Revolution change society?
4. What was Cheniere Caminada and what happened there in 1893
5. What was the Chicago World Exposition, when did it occur and what impact did it have on the country?
6. What were the rules of etiquette during the Nineteenth Century?

National Contexts – Turn of the Century America - http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/katetime.htm

World’s Columbian Exposition - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html#four

Nineteenth Century Etiquette - http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5122.html

Using the links below, answer the following questions

1. What is a Creole?
2. Where did the word originate?
3. What Creoles did Chopin write about?
4. Briefly describe the Creole language.
5. Describe Creole society, family, customs
6. Describe segregation in New Orleans during Chopin’s time.

Creole in Black and White - http://www.loyno.edu/~tlkinnon/Creoles.htm

The French Creoles in Louisiana: An American Tale - http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/2/92.02.02.x.html

Using the links below, answer the following questions

1. What movement in art coincided with the time period of Kate Chopin’s life?
2. How is this movement described and how does it relate to the literary movements of Chopin’s time?
3. Identify three influential painters and titles of their most famous work from this movement.
4. Identify and briefly describe each of the major literary movements that influence Chopin’s writing.

Arts of the Late 19^th Century - http://www.loyno.edu/~kchopin/Art.htm

Literary Context of the Awakening - http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/katemove.htm

Read the article, "A Woman Far Ahead of Her Time" by Jane Bail Howard. Choose two of the three stories listed below to read and explain how, in her writing, Chopin proves to be ahead of her time.

-"A Woman Far Ahead of Her Time" http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/Kate_c.htm

"The Kiss"- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=ChoKiss.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1

"Mrs. Mobry’s Reason" - http://www.4literature.net/Kate_Chopin/Mrs_Mobry_s_Reason/

"The Father of Desiree’s Baby" - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=ChoDesi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1

After completing your group research and reading a few of Kate Chopin’s short stories, what is your opinion about Kate Chopin as a writer and as a revolutionary thinker for her time and what do you hope to learn in our study of her novel The Awakening