Friday, November 16 Emancipation: A Life Fable

Learning targets: I can analyze the impact of author’s choices. In informational texts, analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop.

                              Writing: I can use appropriate and varied transitions, as well as varied syntax, to make critical connections, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and concepts andp Provide a concluding statement or section that explains the significance of the argument presented.

Important information: Keep your Story of an Hour graphic organizer, as you will be using in after the Thanksgiving break as a reference for an essay comparing the Chopin's short story and her allegory Emancipation: A Fable.

Please turn in your imply and infer exercise from yesterday NOW.

Due at the Close of Class today: your annotated Emancipation: A Life Fable by Kate Chopin.

What is an allegory?
allegory 1:42

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Emancipation. A Life Fable   by Kate Chopin                               Notes on theme (T)

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In class: You are annotate the Emancipation: A Life Fable text, which is an allegory.  What you will specifically do is underline important terms, circle definitions and meanings, write key words and definitions in the margin and signal important information or symbols in the margin, specifically those relating to theme (T), tone (TO) and symbols (S).  Your detailed annotation of this text will be collected once at the end of class on Monday, once you have submitted your essay.

There was once an animal born into this world, and opening his eyes upon Life, he saw above and about him confining walls, and before him were bars of iron through which came air and light from without; this animal was born in a cage. Here he grew, and throve in strength and beauty under the care of an invisible protecting hand. Hungering, food was ever at hand. When he thirsted water was brought, and when he felt the need to rest, there was provided a bed of straw upon which to lie; and here he found it good, licking his handsome flanks, to bask in the sun beam that he thought existed but to lighten his home. Awaking one day from his slothful rest, lo! the door of his cage stood open: accident had opened it. In the corner he crouched, wondering and fearingly. Then slowly did he approach the door, dreading the unaccustomed, and would have closed it, but for such a task his limbs were purposeless. So out the opening he thrust his head, to see the canopy of the sky grow broader, and the world waxing wider. Back to his corner but not to rest, for the spell of the Unknown was over him, and again and again he goes to the open door, seeing each time more Light. Then one time standing in the flood of it; a deep in-drawn breath – a bracing of strong limbs, and with a bound he was gone. On he rushes, in his mad flight, heedless that he is wounding and tearing his sleek sides – seeing, smelling, touching of all things; even stopping to put his lips to the noxious pool, thinking it may be sweet. Hungering there is no food but such as he must seek and ofttimes fight for; and his limbs are weighted before he reaches the water that is good to his thirsting throat. So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering. The door which accident had opened is opened still, but the cage remains forever empty!