The Awakening: In Class Group ActivitiesDirections for Students
Group A
Acting/Writing
Characters: Parrot, Leonce Pontellier, quadroon nurse, Madame Lebrun, two children, Robert Lebrun, Edna Pontellier
Read over Chapter I.
Write out a script for Chapter I which includes stage direction (how you want the characters to act and move about on your stage).
Practice.
Act out for the class.
Group B
Drawing
Read over Chapter IV.
Draw a poster of Madame Ratignolle.
Define "mother-woman."
Read over Chapter VII.
Draw a poster of Madame Pontellier.
Using a Venn Diagram, write about how Edna and Adele are different and similar.
Group C
Thinking/Writing
Read the first paragraph of Betty Friedan's 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique.
The Problem that Has No Name
"The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night--she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question--'Is this all?'"
Read over Chapter X.
Edna seems to be feeling what Friedan describes.
As a group, write about how and why Edna is changing.
Group D
Tracking/Writing
Review all that you've read in The Awakening, looking for ALL of the references made to African Americans (quadroons, mulattos, black girls). Write down all of the references you can find.
As a group write about the way these people are described.
Why do they generally not have names?
What does this say about Edna, Adele, Madame Lebrun, and other whites in the novel?
What does this say about Kate Chopin? Is she describing this society, or do you think she actually feels this way?
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