1. Bellringer: Dec. 9/10
On your “The Possibility of Evil” character and word chart, write what you think the message is for this story. Make sure your write it as a THEME. Don’t give a summary.
(remember, themes are universal and can be applied to more than just this one situation and this character. Themes state an opinion and are debatable. Themes are not clichés.)

2. Take the quiz
You may use your character and word choice chart AND your reading packet.
Do not talk. That means no noise will come out of your mouth while someone is taking the quiz.
Turn in both the quiz and the reading packet when you are finished.

3. “A Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner
How does Faulkner use subtle details and characterization to comment on the difference between perceptions and reality?
“A Rose for Emily”
By William Faulkner
Looking at little differences – leading into subtle details and implications

4. What can you infer based off of details?
*Disclaimer* This scene from Men in Black has mild profanity. It’s not nearly as bad as what you hear in the hallways, though. 

5. 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.”
Make this a handout.

6. What can you infer about the woman?

7. 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”
A = more advanced readers. B = more reluctant readers.
Both texts are included in the resources. Text A has been excerpted.

8. 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?

9. 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.

10. Exit Ticket
Based on the information about Emily, Southern society, and the background information, make a prediction about what the story will be about.