1. AP Language and Composition 11/25/13 Agenda Bell ringer: Grassroots – Were there any questions from the rest of Ch. 10? Looking forward – we are skipping Ch. 11-12 and moving on to Ch. 13 after the Turkey Day break. Weekly Overview and Today’s Objectives: TODAY: Grammar questions, read/discuss The Handmaid’s Tale HW / TU: Be ready to type final drafts in Lab 313 tomorrow. HW for next Monday: Read to p.____ in The Handmaid’s Tale

2. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The basics: -Atwood’s 6 th novel -Set at her alma mater, Harvard University, in the distant future -Published in Canada in 1985 and in the U.S. in 1986 -Dedicated to Mary Webster, a distant relative of Atwood’s accused of witchcraft in Puritan New England, and to Perry Miller, Atwood’s former professor at Harvard

3. The novel is a dystopia which is now a popular genre in Young Adult literature although this book was written for an adult audience. -What do we know about dystopias? -Why can we infer authors write dystopias? -What other pressing questions do you have about the book so far? LET’S READ!!!