Week 9
Class Ground Rules
Read all the assignments before class.
Keep yourself on mute unless called on.
Raise your hands electronically.
Focus your comments only on the question at hand rather than straying to other parts of the story.
Discuss the author's story, not your own story.
Refrain from offering a review of the whole story or jumping to the end.
Try to support your comments by referring to details from the text.
Listen to and respond to others with respect.
READ (at least twice): "The Wind" [story PDF posted below] (Published in The New Yorker, February 1, 2021 issue.)
A mother and her children flee her abusive husband.
Think About:
The first section of the story and the foreboding inherent in it.
The mother.
The husband.
The daughter.
The narration. Who is telling the story? Why?
Significance of the title.
Click on the top right corner of the story below for the full text.
“The Wind,” by Lauren Groff | The New Yorker.pdf