1. Bellringer: Dec. 8
Write this in your “The Possibility of Evil” Packet – Perhaps the blank back or where ever there is room.
What can you infer about how the narrator feels about Miss Strangeworth based on the following sentences?
Miss Strangeworth never concerned herself with facts; her letters all dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion. Mr. Lewis would never have imagined for a minute that his grandson might be lifting petty cash from the store register if he had not had one of Miss Strangeworth's letters.

2. Making inferences (review)
What is an inference?
It is a logical guess using evidence from a text, your own knowledge, and common sense.

3. You should have finished reading the text over the weekend and answering the question.
What you and your partner need to do now is to complete the character and tone charts.

4. What is the message about the difference between perception and reality?
What about Miss Strangeworth helps show us this message?

5. What is the message about the difference between perception and reality?
How does Shirley Jackson, the author, seem to feel about Miss Strangeworth, what she does, and what the town does to her?
What words and phrases help show us this feeling

6. Exit Ticket ON THE BLANK SIDE OF THE SCRAP PAPER,
What is one thing that is unexpected about Miss Strangeworth? (I mean IRONIC)

7. Quiz next class! I will be collecting the reading packet.
You will be using the character/word choice chart for the quiz.