Agenda for Monday, Oct 25

1—Freewrite: Plans for Halloween?

2—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”: Main points, timeline confusions.

There are many subjects and side stories in this story. What are some of the many things that readers learn about life in the story?

For example: why is it difficult to live with someone suffering from addiction?

**what happens at the end of the story?

**Is there a connection? What kind of connection?

**What sort of story would this have been if Sonny was the narrator?

3—Essay: read thesis and method

**Take two minutes to prepare/find your Thesis and method. Hopefully, you have made good use of the thesis blueprint: While X, I think Y. And make sure that you clearly reveal which gothic term(s) or concept(s) you use. Some examples:

**Terror/horror–quote from Lloyd-smith

**CGI–normal or not–quote from handout for definition

**Gothic emotion–quote from handout

**Todorov’s uncanny, fantastic, marvelous–quote from handout

**SOP–make sure to quote from TBC–its Poe’s Narrator’s term

4—Q and A 

Homework due Wednesday by 10am: revise and submit your essay via BlackBoard by 10am– class on Wednesday. Email me any questions.