Click the image of the crayon portrait of a newly married couple from Floridamemory.com to open the PDF from Purdue of "A Rose for Emily"
"Home, Sweet Home" Link
Click the image of the newly married Southerners to be taken to the "Home, Sweet Home" article on gender in the antebellum south from NCSU.edu
Assignments 4/20-4/21
Assigned in class Monday 4/20 was the following homework:
Read "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner (PDF found to the left, Blue Textbook p. 804).
Generate Four Socratic Discussion Questions. (1 close ended, 1 open ended, 1 text-to-world/text-to-text/text-to-self, and 1 thematic.
Be ready to discuss this awesomely creepy story on Tuesday 4/21.
Class on 4/21 will consist of a Socratic Seminar, graded with the use of tracking sheets, and a graded exit slip.
For those who were absent or did not complete the Seminar HW, complete the following writing assignment: In a PEEL paragraph, MLA format, with no fewer than 500 words, respond to the following prompt: Modernism is characterized by a break-away from tradition; traditional language conventions, content, and characters are presented in new ways to highlight America’s movement into a new century and a new way of thinking. In “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily is a character which has clearly suffered from the influence of previous traditions and is then forced to meet the expectations of a new generation’s beliefs and rules. Generate an applicable theme for this division between the influences of the past versus the present. Use three quotes from the text to analyze how this theme is developed throughout the text.
Discussion Topics for Wednesday 4/22 and Thursday 4/23:
Wednesday 4/22..... Everything you ever wanted to know about MLA format.