GRADES ARE DUE IN ON WEDNESDAY so we will start this week by reviewing missing work, especially the most recent major paper, your Puritan paper. We're starting our reading of Kate Chopin's novella The Awakening in earnest, and will watch our first of two documentaries, the American Experience's "New Orleans."

Monday

Starting by meeting with student's who have not turned in their drafts of the Puritan papers. We will then watch the first part of a three part documentary on "New Orleans," which will cover the founding of the city as a French catholic capitol of trade mixed with Free People of Color from the Caribbean (Creoles), the early days of Carnival and the white wealthy men in the Pickwick Club during Reconstruction, the 1868 Louisiana Constitution and the resultant rise of Crescent City White League.
HW: Read chapters 6-8, nine more pages in The Awakening.

Tuesday

Small group discussion questions on chapters 1 through 8. During that time, I will pass out papers and grade reports. We will pick up the documentary on New Orleans, watching ten or so minutes. Homer Plessey, the Separate Car Act of 1891, and the Citizens' Committee's attempt to fight the growing racial segregation in the south. What would life for Edna--a white women of wealth and means--be like in a society increasingly racially divided and intolerant of independent Americans who don't fit in the social norms?
HW: Finish the questions on chapters 1-8, due tomorrow. Read chapters 9-11, an additional nine pages.

Wednesday

Collecting the questions on chapters 1-8, and then addressing questions on chapters 9, 10, 11. Watching an additional 30 minutes of the documentary. We will have a second sheet of questions on chapters 8-10.
HW: Read chapters 12-14, nine pages further.

Thursday

Collecting the 8-10 worksheet. Answering any questions on the reading, and then returning to the documentary. We will observe the aftermath of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, when the city fathers purposefully dynamited the levees south of the city, flooding 23,000 square miles of land inhabited by poorer, disenfranchised, black citizens who became refugees, most of whom received little or no compensation, as promised.
HW: Read chapters 15 and 16, an additional nine pages.

Friday

Small group work and discussion on chapters 11-15. We will watch a snippet of the documentary, this detailing how New Orleans becomes a haven for lost, artistic souls seeking self-awareness and a home (e.g.: Tennessee Williams).
HW: Read through and including chapter 22, up to page 68 for class on Monday. In is in chapter 22 that Leonce will seek the counsel of Doctor Mandelet, believing that his wife's mysterious behavior is some type of illness.