GCE TEACHER GUIDANCE LT2 Internal Assessment WJEC ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNAL ASSESSMENT LT2 TEACHER GUIDANCE INTRODUCTION We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LT2 internal assessment unit. The guidance in this booklet is directed at offering advice and support for LT2 Section A and Section B in terms of: 1. Text selection 2. Task setting 3. Assessing student responses
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TERMS AND CONCEPTS: 1. Sex and Gender What do they mean‚ what are the differences between the two? Gender is a social construction. Sex refers to biological differences that are unchanging; gender involves the meaning that a particular society and culture attach to sexual difference. Because the meaning varies over time and among cultures‚ gender differences are both socially constructed and subject to change. Male/Female (sex) vs. Masculine/Feminine (gender). 2. Race and Class Issues
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New York: Arno Press. ———. 1997. “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Other Stories. 1892. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications. ———. 1913. “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.” The Forerunner‚ October‚ 271. Kearns‚ Katherine. 1991. “The Nullification of Edna Pontellier.” American Literature 63.1: 62–88. Spangler‚ George M. 1970. “Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’: A Partial Dissent.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 3.3: 249–55. Stowe‚ Harriet Beecher. 2003. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1852. Reprint. Intro. and notes by Amanda
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just self-pity. Mrs. Pontellier‚ the protagonist in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening‚ is textual evidence of a woman who becomes self-realized through an overcoming awakening. Her awakening helps her to perceive the world through her own eyes‚ to overcome the binding obstacles of society‚ and to discover what she believes is the reason for her existence. Mrs. Pontellier’s awakening helps her to open her eyes and perceive the world as it is. We are told in the novella‚
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And when I read this book‚ I am really shocked by the heroine---Mrs. Pontellier. She is a free woman not only for her life but also her mind. She takes a holiday with her husband‚ Mr. Leonce at Grand Isle where she meets Robert and Adele Ratignolle. She has learned and tried many things she never did before and enjoyed that kind of life very much. And gradually‚ she starts her love to Robert in this place. Although Pontellier is married to Leonce‚ she still loves another
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such ideas conjured widespread controversy during her time‚ as it was unconventional for a woman to dare question the role society assigned to her. In 1899‚ she published her most well-known work‚ The Awakening‚ a story that follows the life of Edna Pontellier as she reevaluates whether being a wife and mother is enough to make her happy‚ while concomitantly abandoning her duties and engaging in multiple affairs as she does so. Chopin originally received fierce backlash from critics who condemned her
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The Presence of Ignorance in American Literature The dictionary definition of ignorance is a lack of knowledge or information‚ but a more relatable defining of the word is to disregard what is obvious to one’s own or another’s detriment. Ignorance was such a common trait among people during the time period from 1865 to the early 1900s‚ that it popped up not only in the literature‚ but also in historical events. A majority of individuals from history did not see their follies until the consequences
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that life has to offer free from responsibilities and confining rules. Mrs. Pontellier expresses many times throughout "The Awakening" how she wishes to be free of her husband and children to pursue her artistic aspirations‚ her physical needs with other men‚ and her friendship with Mademoiselle Reisz‚ a woman who escaped society’s expectations and as a result lives free to pursue her own wants and needs. Mrs. Pontellier is surrounded by men‚ including her husband‚ Alcee Arobin‚ and Robert Lebrun
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Modernism Although generally called a movement‚ it is more valid to see modernism as an international body of literature characterized by a new self-consciousness about modernity and by radical formal experimentation. Several literary movements and styles‚ notably Imagism and Vorticism‚ were fostered within modernism‚ which flourished from around 1890 until 1940. There was also a period of so-called "high modernism‚" 1920-5. Generally‚ modernists were driven by the belief that the assurances
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Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ this episode reveals that Edna Potelleir wants to be free and independent. Being one with nature can do just that. Edna and the sea had a relationship throughout the novel. In the beginning‚ Edna did not know how to swim and stayed away from the sea‚ not until she met Robert. Edna Felt almost like a kid again with Robert‚ she did not need to worry about her husband or her life at the time. When the summer was almost over‚ Edna went to the beach‚ and actually wanted to go in
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