9/7/20151 IV. Taking Notes Pat will take notes to find some supporting ideas for the thesis: The yellow wallpaper is used by Gilman as a symbol of the repression of the 19 th century woman and her response to the society that confines her.

9/7/20152 Table of Contents 1.Frustration with Source Material 33 2.What to Mark in Source Material How to Take Notes 66 4.Review Notes 77 5.How to Use Source Material Useful Links Pat’s Next Step: Works Cited Page Unit VUnit V

9/7/20153 …but where do I begin? I feel lost! I have so much information Frustration is part of the process.

9/7/20154 To begin taking notes, use a pencil/pen to underline or write on the materials printed from books, library databases and websites. Pay attention to: information that supports the thesis, titles and names, interpretations by experts in the field, quotable passages, and passages that just seem important. What to Mark in Source Material

9/7/20155 Now I understand how to begin! I think I need to do some writing. I should look for information that is connected to my thesis.

9/7/20156 How to Take Notes on Source Material Highlight or write on the source material.source material Create a reading response journal.reading response journal Free write some of her` thoughts.Free write Create note cards of important passages.note cards Make/Revise an outline.

9/7/20157 Review notes. But how do I take the material from my notes and put it into the paper? Now that I’ve taken notes, I understand the critics’ ideas about symbolism better.

9/7/20158 How to Use Source Material In-text Direct Quote This is a word-for-word representation of the original passage in MLA format. Example “True, she expresses love and concern for the baby, yet she is also solicitous toward her husband, and we know that behind this surface calm lies unconscious aggression. Is she similarly hostile toward her baby?” (Berman 199) Paraphrase Take the original passage and put it into your own words. Make sure to represent all points and give the original author credit. Example Berman argues that we know that she has unconscious aggression towards her husband and wonders if she feels aggression towards the child as well (199). Summary Condense all of the original information and then use only the main points. Example According to Berman, the narrator’s loving concern for the baby may mask aggression as it does in her feelings for her husband (199).

9/7/20159 Pat is ready to create works cited. I have lots of good source material to use. But I’d better review MLA format for citations and Works Cited. I have a lot of questions about MLA format..

9/7/ These links are really helpful! Notetaking and Choosing Supporting Ideas Evaluating Content in the Source Materials rch/r_evalsource3.html rch/r_evalsource3.html MLA Format rch/r_mla.html rch/r_mla.html Quotation, Paraphrase, Summary rch/r_quotprsum.html rch/r_quotprsum.html Useful Links

9/7/ Pat’s Outline I. Intro – general statement about “The Yellow Wallpaper” Thesis statement II. Wallpaper – narrator’s deteriorating mental state III. Wallpaper – as “pattern” of social and economic dependence IV. Wallpaper – as symbol of restraints of “True Womanhood” V. Conclusion

9/7/ Reading Response Journal On this side write a quotation, interesting idea, or the title of the chapter from the book you are reading here. Use quotation marks and add the page number for reference. On this side you will write about what comes to your mind when you think about the sentence on the left side. Suggestions: in your responses you may write about reactions; your ideas about the text, questions; your comments on an issue that the text raises; connections - comparisons or contrasts with similar things, predictions: what you think is going to happen next. Instructions for the Reading Journals: For each selected quotation, interesting idea, or chapter of the book write a page long double-entry response. Follow the given format.

9/7/ Pat’s Free Write

9/7/ Card #1 [He chooses] for her a room in the house that was formerly a nursery. It is a room with barred windows originally in­ tended to prevent small children from falling out. It is the room with the fateful yellow wallpaper. The narrator herself had preferred a room downstairs; but this is 1890 and, to use Virginia Woolf's phrase, there is no choice for this wife of "a room of one's own." (Hedges 106). ( front of card) Hedges, Elaine R. “Afterword.” The Yellow Wallpaper. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman New York: The Feminist Press, Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 9. Detroit: The Gale Group, Print. (back of card) Pat has found some really great passages, and she has decided to create note cards. Later she will see where she might use the passages in her paper. Pat has put the source of the passage into MLA format to help her with the Works Cited page later on.

9/7/ Card #2 For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia--and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise man put me to bed and applied the rest cure, to which a still-good physique responded so promptly that he concluded there was nothing much the matter with me, and sent me home with solemn advice to "live as domestic a life as far as possible," to "have but two hours' intellectual life a day," and "never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again" as long as I lived. This was in I went home and obeyed those directions for some three months, and came so near the borderline of utter mental ruin that I could see over (“Why I Wrote ” 52). (front of card) Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Ed. Catherine Golden. New York: Feminist Press, Print. (back of card)

9/7/ Taking Notes on Source Material