Thursday, September 8, 2011

Thursday September 8

Reminders: vocabulary 1 is due tomorrow for full credit.
Monday and Tuesday you are writing a critical lens essay on your summer reading. You may bring notes to class. This will take place in the 3rd floor computer lab. You may save these to your h drive or bring in your thumb drive.

PARANOIA-
a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
2. baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.

In class: 15 minute writing response to The Yellow Wallpaper. Was the narrator paranoid?
Support your response based upon at least two literary element: plot, character, setting, tone, point of view, dialogue, theme, figurative language devices.

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