Week 5

In this week, we will -

• Study the short story " A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner (Click to view the lesson)
• Learn to use Frontpage to create documents
• Organize our completed written and visual literary responses in a webfolio (website).

Lesson 9 "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

Motivational Activities:

1. Who is William Faulkner?
2. What issues are brought up in Criticism on the short story? What issues seem to be interesting  and probing?

Aim:

• What is the significance of the narrator’s use of "we" to tell the story?
• What is the significance of the title?
• What does Emily and her family represent for the town people and the narrator?
• What values does the narrator appear to hold?
•  How does it affect your experience of the story?
   

Click here to view the full lesson on "A Rose for Emily"

Homework #8 Select one of the following written assignment to do-

Part I:

1. Rewrite the story in a chronological order following the timeline of Emily's life before her father's death to her own death.
2. Write a Character Analysis essay on Emily. Since Emily is described  from the narrator's  perspective and her image is also mixed with opinions from  "us" the town people, you need to gather factual information about Emily (for instance, her refusing to acknowledge her father's death, her appearing in public with Homer Barron, etc.) to describe what kind of person Emily truly is.
3. Write a critical essay commenting on "we" based on how the narrator thinks about Emily at different stages of her life.
4. Write an analysis of the title. What does it mean?  What significance does the setting( in terms of time and place and historical background) play in the story?
5. Create an original written response that demonstrate the main idea of the story and your interpretation of the story.

Part II: Art component

• Create a playbill cover
• character portrait for Emily
• Theme-related illustration