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· The following version of the short story was used to create the lesson plan: Saunders, George. "Mother's Day." The New Yorker, 2016. ​​https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/mothers-day-fiction-george-saunders

· The story opens on Pine Street.

· Pammy holds her mother Alma’s hand and points out the newly bloomed purple flowers as if to impress her.

· The narrator wonders why someone would be so amazed at something that happens every year.

· Pammy had just taken Alma to a Mother’s Day lunch.

· The narration shifts to Alma’s interior thoughts recalling that Pammy had “once slapped her own mother for attempting to adjust her collar” (2) yet she now holds her hand.

· Alma thinks how inappropriately Pammy is dressed, wearing “a sweatshirt with a crossed-out picture of a machine gun on it” (2).

· Alma is relieved her children had not bugged her about her smoking.

· Pammy asks Alma if she liked...

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