1. Welcome! November 8th, 2017 Wednesday
Do Now
Get out your weekly Bell Ringer sheet and begin working on Wednesday’s assignment. Once the bell rings, you will have five minutes to discuss the prompt with your group. Make sure you stay on task! 
Remember: Do Now's are INDEPENDENT and QUIET exercises. Thank you 

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3. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
Today, we’re going to read a piece from one more Gothic author – William Faulkner. I’m going to give you a little overview of who Faulkner was and a quick overview of the genre he helped create – Southern Gothic.
Make sure you pay attention so you can complete the first goal on your handout 

4. William Faulkner
Though the “height” of the Gothic/Dark Romantic movement ended in the late 1800s, many authors afterwards were (and are still today!) inspired by the movement and continued writing pieces in the Gothic tradition.
Faulkner, born in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1897, was one of the most famous writers who was heavily inspired by Gothic works.
Though he never even finished high school, Faulkner won a Noble Prize in literature for “his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel“ in 1949.

5. Southern Gothic
Faulkner’s work is often defined as “Southern Gothic,” which is just what it sounds like – Gothic fiction that’s set in the American South
While traditional Gothic deals with isolated individuals in general, Southern Gothic tends to focus on individuals who were isolated by traditional Southern culture, especially African Americans and women
Faulkner also tries to capture his own conflicted emotions about his South heritage – on one hand, he was proud of where he came from and the close-knit bonds of Southerners. On the other, he felt a very real shame for the South’s actions during the Civil War and its backwards views towards women and African Americans

6. “A Rose for Emily”
As you read through Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” with your groups, pay attention to the order Faulkner presents events in his story. You’ll notice things aren’t quite chronological throughout his story.
As you read, number the events on your handout in the order they occur in the story (the order in which they appear to the reader).

7. Reading Questions
After you’ve read “A Rose for Emily,” choose six of the questions below to answer. For all six questions, you need to do three things for full credit:
1. Answer the question
2. Explain your answer
3. Provide at least one piece of supporting textual evidence
Be sure to write your answers on a separate sheet of paper and staple your answers to your handout.