Expectations

"The Good Corn"

In "The Good Corn" one of the women is a middle-aged wife, the other a younger woman who has come to work on the farm owned by the married woman and her husband.

You may have begun already to form expectations about a story involving these three characters. In pairs or groups, spend a few minutes listing ideas of what "The Good Corn" could be about.


Important words: context, theory, race, gender, class.

Essential Questions: -What expectations do readers have of stories?
                               -Where do readers' expectations come from?
                               -Can a story ask to be read in a particular way?
                               -Do readers read a story in the same way                                 the second, third, or fourth time?