Nina did outstanding work during our first session in analyzing Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily". She identified excellent specific examples of the Gothic genre, as well as examples of the modern permutations of the genre within the Southern Gothic. We discussed the issues of race and slavery as underlying the use of the gothic elements. We further examined the story as a personal story of Emily and her frustrated search for love and her resulting loneliness . Nina then discussed the symbolism of the "rose" within the title as an actual rose appears nowhere within the text. Last, I outlined on the board the conflict between the Old South. and the New South and again Nina contributed excellent examples of these elements within the story. During our second session, I continued instruction on subject-verb agreement and antecedent-pronoun agreement focusing on the more difficult aspects of agreement such as the collective singular noun(chorus ,team, committee) ,and the variations of the compound subject that can alter pronoun use in the "either/or " construction . We then completed exercises on both topics. Last, we addressed Nina's work on her Poe essay and identified specific symbols to incorporate in her essay . HW due Tuesday- write the body of the essay,2 more paragraphs , r. ch 1 and 2 "To Kill a Mockingbird".