1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by: Stephen Chbosky

2. Today’s Agenda Journal
What is an allusion?  To Kill a Mockingbird  This Side of Paradise
Art and your identity

3. What is an allusion, exactly?
A literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader’s mind with only a word or two.
Allusions in writing help the reader to visualize what's happening by evoking a mental picture.
The reader must be aware of the allusion and must be familiar to what it is referring.
The author includes an allusion for a significant reason. Don’t simply read past it! The allusion will most likely come back to haunt you!

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Date Published: July 11, 1960
Short Summary:  Takes place during three years ( )  At the start of the novel, Scout, the young narrator, is six years old, although everything is told in the form of a flashback. So, there is a grown-up Scout telling us about her past through the voice of a little girl.  Tom Robinson, a black man, is accused of raping a young, white woman, and Atticus Finch is appointed to defend Tom.  Scout wants to help her father, Atticus, but he does not want Scout to be present during the trial

5. Continuation:
 Despite evidence of Tom’s innocence, the jury convicts him, and he is shot and killed trying to escape from prison  Bildungsroman (18th c): novel of education that follows the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist
Themes:  Southern life and racial injustice  Gender roles  Loss of innocence

6. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date Published: 1920
Short Summary:  Divided into three parts : Book One, Interlude, Book Two  The lives of post-World War I youth  Protagonist Amory Blaine is a student at Princeton University and serves in the army in WWI  After the war, Amory falls in love with a New York socialite named Rosalind Connage. Their relationship cannot last because he is poor  Novel ends with the famous statement, “I know myself, but that is all”
Themes:  Love warped by greed  Love warped by status-seeking

7. Why are these novels important to The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
What are the connections between the novels and Charlie?
Personal connections

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12. Today’s Agenda Finish up from last class Introduce Final Project
Partnered work
Exit card
Remember to read pages for next class

13. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Final Project
“I am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books Bill gives me to read. And just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. They are all my favorites. All of them” (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 63).
Creating YOUR own Anthology of Self-Discovery

14. Exit Card
Explain why the picture is relevant to YOUR identity or what you have learnt about yourself by engaging with this art piece.