Day 6

A Rose For Emily and Other Short Stories Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    "Mountain Victory" and the Lost Cause

    Kind of Activity:

    Research

    Objective:

    Students will research the Civil War and the Lost Cause ideology to understand Faulkner's portrayal of the war in "Mountain Victory."

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

    Structure:

    Edmond Volpe says of "Mountain Victory" that it is "the most partisan, least critical, and most nostalgic rendering of the Southern plantation tradition in the canon of Faulkner's fiction." This is also the only story that deals specifically with the aftermath of the Civil War, and the way the South viewed the...

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