The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Short Story lesson

Lesson plan:

-read

- short quiz

-watch "the story of an hour"

- creative writing 

Warming up:

What do we know about marriage in the late 19th- century

Read the story:

From what ailment does Mrs. Mallard suffer?

1. blood poisoning
2. heart trouble
3. corona
4. kidney failure

What might Mrs. Mallard’s ailment symbolize?

1. her unhappiness and troubling emotions
2. her inability to filter out less important things in life
3. her inability to see things as they are
4. her kindness

Who breaks the news of Mr. Mallard’s death?

1. Richards
2. Josephine
3. Roberts
4. Friar John

What is significant about the story’s setting?

1. The setting makes no difference.
2. The story encompasses one hour.
3. The story’s set in a time period that afforded women very few rights.
4. It takes place in a large house.

How could we best characterize Brently Mallard

1. He’s an adulterer.
2. He set up the train wreck story
3. He is an abusive husband who
4. He’s a typical husband in the late 19th-century.

creative writing

 (1) rewrite the story from Brently Mallard’s point of view; 

(2) continue the story, telling the events of the next hour;

 (3) modernize the story.

At the end of the lesson I can...