Feb. 26th Monday

Today we have two classes. I will show you The Yellow Wall Paper movie. It will take both classes to watch.

HOME WORK FROM LAST DAY:

The Yellow Wall paper Questions

'The Yellow Wallpaper" tells the story of a woman's mental breakdown.

Suffering from depression following the birth of her first child, the woman is taken to the country by her physician husband, where she is kept in a room decorated with yellow wallpaper that used to be a nursery. Instructed by her husband not to engage in any intellectual activity and to get total bed rest, the narrator becomes obsessed with the wallpaper until, at the end of the story, she goes insane.



1892: Women cannot vote for public officials or hold public office.
Occupations other than teaching, nursing, low-level factory labor, or domestic service are closed to them, and a college education is rare.

Today: Women have achieved a great deal toward true equality with men. Virtually all occupations are now open to women. Many issues remain, however, including equal pay.
1895: A rash of so-called "hysteria" cases occur during the late 1800s and early 1900s.