1. Aim: What literary technique is used to tell the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner?
Do Now: Write about some of the things that a rose represents to you. Explain why you think the story is titled “A Rose For Emily”
Homework# 1: Explain some information that were given about Ms. Emily in the first section of the story.

3. Symbol of Roses
Red roses are the traditional symbol for love and romance
Pink roses as a symbol of grace and elegance
The bright, sunny color of yellow roses evokes a feeling of warmth and happiness.
White roses represent innocence and purity and are traditionally associated with marriages and new beginnings.

4. Vocabulary Monument….Something erected in memory, a statue
Cupolas……something that connects
Spires……a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof
Encroached…to trespass upon the property
Obliterated…to remove or destroy all traces of
august names
Coquettish….. flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.

5. 10-25-12 Aim: How do we describe Ms. Emily in “A Rose For Emily”?
Do Now: Pair Activity:
1. Is there a house in your neighborhood that makes you afraid?
2. Explain what activities you notice at this house.
3. What will you do about it?
Homework# 2: Explain how Ms. Emily’s house is described in the second paragraph.
Write at least one paragraph.

6. Literary Techniques:
Foreshadowing-refers to hints and clues that tip the reader off as to what is to
come later in the work.
Flashback-is the returning to an earlier moment in literary time, usually through a character's past memories.

7. Vocabulary 1 Tarnished Boldness 2. Gilt Easel Fancy handwriting
3. Archaic
4. Calligraphy
5.Alderman
6. Submerged
7. Pallid hue
8. Deprecation
9.temerity
10.pauper
Boldness
Fancy handwriting
Dull in color
Very poor person
Strong disapproval
To put below the surface
A gold stand
Very old
A council member

8. Notes
When the new generation of politicians takes over Jefferson’s government, they were not concerned about Sartoris’s kindness to Ms. Emily. They wanted to collect the taxes from her.
The men went to Emily’s old parlor to discuss the matter but Emily threw them out, just as she had done thirty years before when the smell developed in her house.

9. Sourcebook Assignment:
1. Explain how the author uses the literary technique, Flashback in the story “A Rose For Emily” Provide textual evidence 2. Tell how you have seen Flashback used in any other piece of literature or film. 3. Give some detail from the text that you find about Ms. Emily.

10. Summary Exit Ticket
1.Are you afraid of Ms. Emily?
2.Explain why?

11. Aim: What information can we gather from the changing portraits in “A Rose For Emily”?
Do Now: Read the second paragraph on page 2, then explain the picture that Faulkner has painted of Miss Emily.
Homework#3: Compare Homer Barron with Emily’s father.

12. Group Assignment : Explain what these statements mean:
“a sort of hereditary obligation on the town”
“set on what was once our most select street.”
“I have no taxes in Jefferson.”

13. 10-27-12 Aim: What clues can we use to characterize Ms. Emily ?
Do Now:1. What metaphor is used to describe Ms. Emily in the first section?
2.Write a list of the characters that we have met so far in the story.
Homework # 4: Explain what the new leaders of the town did for Ms. Emily .

14. Literary Element
Metaphor is a figure of speech in which there is a comparison of two unlike things without using a word of comparison, like or as.
Examples:
1.The umbrella was a roof over my head.
2. Ms. Emily was a fallen monument.

15. Character Description Clues:
All the people in the village went to her funeral
Her house was closed for ten years
Physical description given
She gave China Painting lessons
She lives alone
Her father was rich

16. Textual Evidence about Emily
1.As far as we know, Emily is an only child. 2. We don't know for sure if Emily's artistic ability extended beyond china-painting. She may have done crayon portrait of her father" (1.4) that sits on an easel in the parlor 3.Miss Emily is an old-school southern belle trapped in a society bent on forcing her to stay in her role. 4. She clings to the old ways even as she tries to break free.

17. Characters Emily Grierson - referred to as Miss
Emily; the main character
Homer Barron - is the Yankee construction foreman who becomes Emily Grierson’s first real
beau.

18. Tobe
Emily’s black man-servant

19. Plays an important role in the development of her character.
Emily’s father
Plays an important role in the development of her character.

20. Characters
Colonel Sartoris Colonel Sartoris is the old mayor of Jefferson when Emily’s father dies. He excused Emily from paying taxes in 1894.
Minister and his wife
Narrator

21. Additional characters
Old Lady Wyatt Old lady Wyatt is Emily Grierson’s great-aunt who went completely crazy
Judge Stevens Judge Stevens is the present mayor of Jefferson

22. Sourcebook: Choose two minor characters then,
1. Explain how each minor character contribute to the story of Ms. Emily.
2. Tell how each one makes her life the way it is in the story.

23. Aim: How has Ms. Emily broken the law?
Do Now: Explain what this action says about Mr. Grierson and Ms. Emily.
“We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.”
Homework# 5: Explain why Ms. Emily was able to break the law, when she went to the druggist.

24. Literary Element:
Characterization: The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work: Methods may include (1) by what the character says about himself or herself; (2) by what others reveal about the character; and (3) by the character's own actions

25. Literary Terms protagonist:
The main character in a story.  Usually the central character.
antagonist: 
The bad person in a story; opposes the protagonist.

26. Literary Term
minor characters: are characters in a book that, by the end of the story, don't really change.

27. Group Activity
1. Name two laws that Ms. Emily broke 2. Choose two minor characters and explain how each one allows Ms. Emily to break the law. 3. Use textual evidence to support your answer.

28. Summary
Name two instances when Ms. Emily broke the law.

29. Aim: How do we make inferences about Ms. Emily?

30. INFERENCES
Making an inference is also known as reading between the lines.  The reader must put together the information the author provides and the information that the reader already knows to come up with the answer.  
the text + previous knowledge = inference

31. Making an inference about a character requires you to act like a detective. Based on the different facts given in the text (A+B+C), you have to make a judgment, or inference (D), about that character. What makes inference-making hard is that the word you come up with must come out of your own brain, for the text very rarely will supply you with it (A+B+C=D).

32. Positive
caring - showing feeling for others compassionate - showing sympathy for and connection to others' pain sensitive - easily affected by one's own and others' needs and emotions kindhearted - understanding, considerate of others, generous proud - showing self-respect, dignity, people gullible - easily tricked, deceived, or taken in by others

33. Negative
uncaring - not showing feelings for others insensitive - not affected by others' needs or others' pain coldhearted - lacking sympathy or feelings for others coldhearted - lacking sympathy or feelings for others critical - finding fault in and judging others harshly defiant - boldly opposing authority

34. Meet William Faulkner

35. Setting Miss Emily’s House Town of Jefferson
North and South of America
Alabama
Pharmacy
Day/night time

36. Point of View
This story is told in the townspeople point of view (3rd person)
Unnamed narrator

37. Her house is old, but was once the best house around
Her house is old, but was once the best house around. The town had a special relationship with Miss Emily ever since it decided to stop billing her for taxes in But, the "newer generation" wasn't happy with this arrangement, and so they paid a visit to Miss Emily and tried to get her to pay the debt. She refused to acknowledge that the old arrangement might not work any more, and flatly refused to pay.

38. Aim: What are Faulkner’s verbal portraits saying about Ms. Emily?
Do now:1. Explain how Ms. Emily has changed throughout the story? 2. Why do you think these changes occurred? Homework # 4: Explain why you think Tobe remained quiet after Ms. Emily’s death.

39. There is a series of portraits in the story that gives us important information about Emily.
The front door back- flung – Miss Emily was a virtuous youthful woman.
Her hair cut short, resemblance of an angel in colored church window. She has lost man things in life.
She sat in the window
The picture of her downstairs
When the Aldermen visited.

40. In the third section we met a new character, Homer Barron
In the third section we met a new character, Homer Barron. We also learn that Ms. Emily was allowed to break the law a second time, when she bought arsenic without providing a written reason for her purchase.

41. Your Task: Use the graphic organizer to help you find some clues about Ms. Emily. Then write a character description of her in your source books.

42. Aim: What are the examples of foreshadowing in “A Rose for Emily?”
Do Now: Please answer all review questions for “A Rose for Emily” on the handout provided on Monday. No HW – Study your notes and read the story if you have been absent.

43. Aim: How do we define difficult words in the story “A Rose For Emily”?
Do Now: Review the homework- what are the different instances of foreshadowing in the story? Homework# 7: Choose ten words from the story and use each one in a sentence.

44. Arsenic- strong poison used to kill rodents such as rats and mice.
Vocabulary
Arsenic- strong poison used to kill rodents such as rats and mice.
Arsenic poisoning on human skin
caused by polluted water.

45. A set of shaving tools for a man.
Toilet Set
A set of shaving tools for a man.

46. Additional Vocabulary
Obliterate- to wipe out
Dank – damp, moist or chilly
Coquettish-flirtatious
Thwart- to block or prevent

47. Virulent- extremely poisonous Diffident- shy
Vocab.
Virulent- extremely poisonous
Diffident- shy
Encroach- to advance beyond original limits (to do much better)

48. Vocab.
Obscure- to cover up or hide
Divulge- to share something private
Profoundly- deeply, intensely

49. Vocab. Tedious-boring because something is monotonous Pallid-pale
Temerity- foolish boldness
Circumvent-to cleverly avoid

50. Aim: What is the plot of “A Rose for Emily”?
Do Now: Please answer the review questions for parts 1 and 2 of “A Rose for Emily.”

51. Aim: Who are the characters in the story- “A Rose For Emily”?
Do Now: Use the Graphic organizer to help you write a character description of Ms. Emily. Homework# : Write a list of all the examples of foreshadowing used in the story.

52. The druggist sells Emily arsenic.

53. Emily’s cousins
Emily’s cousins visit to discourage Emily’s relationship with Homer Barron.

54. Individual Work
In your groups list as many examples of foreshadowing as possible in the short story
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner.

55. Foreshadowing in “A Rose for Emily”
Miss Emily keeps her dead father’s body in the house for 3 days
Emily’s house smelled like death
Emily buys arsenic at the drug store
It’s said that Homer went into Miss Emily’s house and was never seen again
Miss Emily’s physical description is that of a drowned person or a dead person
Miss Emily’s house is portrayed as smelly, dirty, dusty, and basically one where death has occurred

56. Aim: How do we sequence the events in the – “A Rose For Emily”?
Do Now: 1.Explain how the author uses two main literary techniques in this story.
2.List and explain some symbols in the story.
Symbol-Something that represents something else, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
Ex. American flag-symbol of freedom

57. Your Task: Write the events in the story- “A Rose for Emily” ,in the order in which they actually occurred. Remember the author uses flashback and flashbacks within the flashback

58. Ms Emily is born
She and her father ride around in an old, elegant carriage
Her father dies and for three days ahe refuses to acknowledge his death
Homer arrives in town.
She buys a man silver toilet set.
The town thought it was a disgrace and sends for her two cousins
Three days after the cousins leave Homer returns
Ms. Emily buys poison.
Homer disappears
A horrible stench develops in her house.
Four town aldermen secretly sprinkle lime around her house.
She gave china painting lessons.
Her door remain closed
The aldermen came for the taxes.
She died.

59. Review Questions:
Who was Ms. Emily?
How did the towns people feel about her?
What was her father’s role in the way she turned out?
How was foreshadowing used in the story?
Who was Homer Barron?
Write a list of the characters in the story.

60. Symbolism in “A Rose for Emily”
What is the symbolism behind Miss Emily’s house?
What is the symbol of the rose colored room presented at the end of the story?

61. Irony
Is there anything ironic about a match between Homer Barron and Miss Emily?

62. Significant Events
What is the significance of Miss Emily’s actions after the death of her father?
What does the title of the story suggest about the townspeople’s feelings toward Miss Emily? Why do they feel this way about her? What does she represent to them?
What is the significance of the title? What does “a rose” mean?