Monday, Nov. 11 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Sit with group from Friday! 10 minutes Reading
• Large group on “Yellow Wallpaper” 
• WN: Pick one of the words on the board that you believe fits with “The Lottery” and explain how you believe this story shows society’s impact on the individual being the word you chose (again, textual evidence is always a plus).
• Small Group Discussion of “The Lottery” –Read bio of story with group
• Look through Post-Mod/Contemp Notes: How do we see those characteristics? (post in classroom)
• Post at least 2 epiphanies in Classroom
• Literary Concept: Dystopia
• Somewhere in Notes: paraphrase the definition on the previous slide
• Writer’s Notebook: Why would dystopias be a literary concept often used in the Post-Modern era?
• Was “The Lottery” a dystopia? What examples of dystopia can you think of?
• “Harrison Bergeron” add date: 1961
• Annotations/Close read: dystopian characteristics, Post-Modern characteristics, society and individual
• If you finish, reading time (or blogging) for BAL (at any point when you are finished and we haven’t moved on)