Story of an Hour and Chopin Question

Guidelines for Writing the Entries:

• Each entry should represent writing, at minimum, 30 minutes (about 400 words). I’m interested in your own critical thinking about the readings, so consider the journal a place for you to do some serious analyzing of the stories.

• Journal entries should demonstrate depth of thinking about the stories and should contain two parts: your reactions to the assigned story (very brief) and analysis of that story (longer part of entry). consider using the data log template (attached as data log-2.docx) to record ideas about specific parts of a story, which should prepare you to write the journal entry.

• Organize each journal entry into three developed paragraphs: (1) the first paragraph will explain your reactions to the short story; and (2) the next two paragraphs will provide analysis of the story.*Note: Analysis requires you to consider the parts of the story (think of the elements of fiction) in order to understand how those parts work to make the whole of the story. Analysis of the stories will help you develop an interpretation of the reading.

• As for writing style, these journal entries are not formal essays, so your style may be more informal or conversational than it would be in a formal academic paper. (The bottom line is that I need to be able to read and understand your ideas.)

1. Reminders:
   • Type the entries and label them with your name, title of the short story, and date. Begineach new entry on a fresh page.
   • Titles of short stories are placed in double quotation marks: e.g., “The Birthmark.”
   • Avoid retelling plot (as your reader, I’m familiar with plot!), except to set up a pointyou wish to make. Concentrate your efforts on explaining how and why things happen in the stories and, most importantly, how the story constructs meaning.

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• Read the “Element of Plot” (849-54) to develop an understanding of how plot functions within a story.
• Read the biographical sketch of author Kate Chopin (152) and her short story, “The Story of an Hour” (157).
• Read the definitions of “epiphany” (910) and “foreshadowing” (911) in our textbook, and then see how these two literary terms function within Chopin’s story.
• Read the guidelines for writing the journal entries–and then write your journal entry on Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,”

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• Read “Element of Narrative Point of View” (857-58) in your textbook.
• Read the biographical sketch of William Faulkner (224) in our textbook.
• Read “A Rose for Emily” (238)
• Prepare a journal entry on Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

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need by March 13 9pm EST the latest