Friday, February 27 vocab quiz and in class writing on "The Story of an Hour"

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There are still folks, who have yet to make up Monday's test. Even with a legal absence, which several do not have, you have only ten days. Any tests not made up by Wednesday, March 4 will be permanent ZEROS. You may make up the test any period, but your own class.


In class: 
Vocabulary quiz for "The Story of an Hour" 
Graphic organizer applying to infer and imply to the short story "The Story of an Hour"  class handout / copy below
graded assignment- due at the end of class.

 Note: on Monday, you will be writing an in-class essay on the view of marriage presented in the short story. You will have a fresh copy of the story to use.

The Story of an Hour    by  Kate Chopin 

Before you begin, read over carefully the difference between infer and imply!

INFER vs. IMPLY

The best way to remember the difference between these two words is to think in terms of the model used by communications theorists. Communication consists of a message, a sender, and a receiver. The sender can imply, but the receiver can only infer. The error that usually occurs is that the word infer is mistakenly used for imply.

IMPLY = to put the suggestion into the message (sender implies)

INFER = to take the suggestion out of the message (receiver infers)

IMPLICATION = what the sender has implied

INFERENCE = what the receiver has inferred

Let's look at a practical example: Think about the following.

Mom says: Take out the trash.

You say: Ok

This seems like a simple transaction. Mom is the sender, who is implying there is trash to be removed from the house.

You are the receiver, who understands what is expected of you: you will pick up the trash and remove it.

But consider the possible under currents. 

From Mom's perspective, what could she possibly be implying beyond the request to take out the trash? What is she thinking?

From your perspective, what could you possibly be inferring beyond the fact that you are now must take out the trash?

Again- the sender implies and the receiver infers.

With a partner with whom you have never worked- or individually- respond the excerpts from "The Story of an Hour," noting specifically the boldly underlined words. This is due at the close of class. Graded participation grade (40%)

You will find below excerpts from the short story. For each of the underlined sections, write a sentence that explains what is being inferred or implied in terms of the character or plot.  Note that there might be both a literal and metaphorical inference and / or implication.  It is important to be aware of every word. Use these terms specifically.

1.       Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

2.       It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing.

3.       He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

    

4.       She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.

    

5.       She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.

6.       There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair.

7.       Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

8.       She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.

9.       There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

10.   It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.

11.   She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her.

12.   She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.

13.   There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself.

14.   Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhold, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door-- you will make yourself ill.

15.   It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one