For your initial discussion post, you should select one of the prompt questions below and write a strong response paragraph that uses the assigned readings for the week as the basis for your response.

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For your initial discussion post, you should select one of the prompt questions below and write a strong response paragraph that uses the assigned readings for the week as the basis for your response. Your paragraph should establish a claim followed by quoted support from the literature. Follow MLA formatting guidelines for in-text citations when you quote. For the purpose of this course, “literature” is defined as poems, short stories, novel excerpts, non-fiction narratives, speeches, sermons, etc. While you can quote from the editorial sections (author biographies, historical context sections, summaries of artistic and geopolitical changes, etc.), you must focus your response paragraph on the assigned literature and quote from the assigned literature. You should spend time explaining how the the quoted evidence you offer proves your claim to be true. Your response paragraph should be five to seven well developed sentences long. 

Question to be answered:

  • How are gender roles revealed through these works?
  • Book/ reading to be used: From The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865 to Present, Shorter, 9th edition:
    • American Literature 1865-1914: The Gilded Age pp. 1-3
    • Reconstructing America pp. 3-6
    • The Literary Marketplace pp. 6-7
    • Forms of Realism pp. 8-11
    • Bret Harte pp. 306-307
    • “The Luck of Roaring Camp” pp. 307-314
    • The Woman Question pp. 11-12
    • Henry James pp. 338-342
    • “Daisy Miller” pp. 342-382
    • Kate Chopin pp. 441-442
    • “The Story of an Hour” pp. 446-448
    • Edith Wharton pp. 524- 526
    • “Roman Fever” pp. 540-549
    • Unseen Forces pp. 13-15
    • The New American Empire pp. 15-17