Bellringer Dec 11

• Create a new page in your notes and label it “A Rose for Emily.”

• Based on the title, make a prediction of what the story will be about. Go beyond saying that someone will give Emily a rose.

How does Faulkner use subtle details and characterization to

comment on the difference between perceptions and reality?

“A Rose for Emily”By William Faulkner

What can you infer based off of details?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXNNqNfQBs

• *Disclaimer* This scene from Men in Black has mild profanity. It’s not nearly as bad as what you hear in the hallways, though.

Sketch the woman described below.

“They rose when she entered--a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.”

What can you infer about the woman?

Background.

“A Rose for Emily,” like the majority of Faulkner’s stories, takes place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Published in 1930, the story portrays social customs of the small-town South at the turn of the 20th century. Be warned that the narrator refers to African Americans with a term that is offensive to contemporary readers.

Social customs?

• In the south during the setting of this story, there were social customs which “normal polite” society observed.

A. Read the excerpt from Judge Till’s essay, “Manners, Morals, Customs, and Public Perception” B. Read the excerpt from “How to be a Southerner”

Discuss with your partner

• Based off the article you read, how would people interact with each other in a small southern town in the 1930s?

• How would people in those towns deal with a problem?

Time line of the story.

• William Faulkner does not tell the story in a linear chronology. (in time order)

• He jumps around, creating a conversational effect to his tale.

– Look at the time line and notice when it starts.– Mark the beginning of the actual narration.

Discuss

What quality of Miss Grierson is Faulkner emphasizing by beginning the story with her death and funeral?

Reciprocal Teaching

• Follow the directions for Reciprocal Teaching.

• Write your group’s summaries in your notes.

• Be ready for the class discussion.

Exit prompt

• In your packets, record the names of the people in your group and put a star next to whomever was the “teacher” for the last section.

• There in your packet, write down the most important idea so far.

• You are not handing this in to me.

For next class

• Your essay exam on The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is on Tuesday. Be ready with your notes and your text.