Friday, September 5, 2025

Friday

 Today you have time to fill out the short story outlines for "The Possibility of Evil" and then work on your journal below - writing about motivation and theme in "The Possibility of Evil".  First we need to write sentences with

Commiserate

Indomitable

THE POSSIBILITY OF EVIL

Journal: Text analysis - students will be able to explain the motivation between the protagonist's actions after reading the story, "The Possibility of Evil" and relate it to a theme.  Remember that in the Unit Goal - the writing of your personal narrative you'll need a theme or a controlling idea.  After we finish the story you will need to write a two paragraph blog entry about the protagonists motivations and why the story is called, "The Possibility of Evil".


"The Possibility of Evil" is on page 202.

HW: Questions 6, 8 and 9 on page 215.

 #6.  Analyze Irony.  Reread lines 219-238.  Explain the irony, or the contrast between appearance and reality, in Miss Strangeworth's insistence upon living "graciously".

#8.  Evaluate.  Is the punishment that Miss Strangeworth receives at the end of the story appropriate?  Why or why not?

#9.  Predict.  How will Miss Strangeworth's life in town be different after her secret is discovered?
 

 

No comments:

Post a Comment

Tuesday

 Today we are going over this Study Guide Study Guide: PART 1: Short Stories   1)    For following stories please give the type of confl...