The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
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Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme from the story. This engages students by giving them choices in their texts. An example is provided using the poem “To the Ladies” by Lady Mary Chudleigh. Finally, students are assigned an essay in which they defend their selection with text-based evidence. The on-demand writing task has been developed to imitate a standardized assessment.
In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for distance and online learning with EASEL by TpT.
Not only does this lesson create real-world connections, making learning relevant for your students, but also it meets expectations of the Common Core Curriculum by employing nonfiction text. Additionally, this lesson incorporates all strands of the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Anchor Standards. Examining these texts would also be a meaningful way to acknowledge Valentine's Day or Women's History Month. Additionally, this lesson can be used as an emergency substitute lesson.
The 23-page file includes the following:
- explicit lesson plan with identified Common Core Anchor Standards
- handouts with anticipation guide, vocabulary activity, annotation graphic organizer, and post-reading questions
- “The Story of an Hour" text
- Washington Post article
- “To the Ladies” text
- think-aloud with annotation example
- pre-writing Venn diagram
- essay prompt
- short literary analysis essay rubric
- key providing detailed responses and sample essay
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Paired Texts - Speech to the Second Virginia Convention and The War Prayer
Paired Texts - My Last Duchess and To My Dear & Loving Husband
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