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· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Chekhov, Anton. "The Schoolmistress." Pp. 4-12. The Schoolmistress and other stories. Penn State University’s Electronic Classics. 2005. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/
· “The Schoolmistress” begins on page 4.
· It is 8:30 on an April morning.
· Despite the warm sun, “winter, dark, long, and spiteful, [is] hardly over” (4).
· Marya Vassilyevna, a schoolmistress now for 13 years, rides a cart toward home after going to town to retrieve her salary.
· Marya has made the trip many times over her 13 years and always wishes “to get to the end of her journey as quickly as could be” (4).
· Marya does not think of her past or her parents whom she lived with in Moscow.
· When Marya was 10 both her parents passed away, first her father, then her mother.
· Marya’s brother was an officer and they used to write...

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