Lesson 19

Today’s Agenda

1. Quiz2. Discuss “A Rose for Emily”3. Human Timeline4. Skills

1. Conflict2. Foreshadowing3. Characterization4. Supporting Details

A Closer Look at“A Rose for Emily”

by William Faulkner

Questions

• Circle the questions that you left unanswered.

• Fill in the answers as we discuss it.

What in the world happened?The Human Flow Map

• Sequencing– Each student receives one event from the story.– The goal is to place the events in chronological order.– The student holding the first event that happened in

true time should stand at the front of the room.– The rest of the students arrange themselves in order,

all the way to the back of the room.– On my command, turn around and check your

answers.– Repeat, if necessary.

Structure: Put the following events in chronological order.

1. Emily’s father dies2. Emily’s father drives eligible young men away from Emily3. Emily is seen around town with Homer Barron4. Emily gives china painting lessons5. Neighbors start to complain about the smell coming from Emily’s house6. Emily tells the “new generation” she doesn’t owe any taxes7. Emily dies8. Homer Barron disappears9. Emily is seen buying men’s clothing10. Emily is seen buying poison11. Emily’s secret is discovered12. The manservant disappears13. Emily cut her hair short.14. Miss Emily’s cousins visited from Alabama, per the request of other townspeople.15. Colonel Sartoris remitted Miss Emily’s taxes.

Stations

• Complete the task at each station, and then rotate when I tell you.– FORESHADOWING– CHARACTERIZATION– CONFLICT– MULTIPLE CHOICE

THEME

•What are possible THEMES for “A Rose for Emily”?

Foreshadowing: What might the following statements

foreshadow?• “She looked bloated, like a

body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.” (p. 879)

• “She had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart --- the one we believed would marry her – had deserted her.” (p. 879)

• “even with insanity in the family” (p. 881)

• Emily buys arsenic for rats. (p. 882)

• “And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron.” (p. 883)

• “She had evidently shut up the top floor of the house.” (p. 883)