10th Lit & Composition

9/5 – M1 & M3

9/10 – G2

1. Warm up2. WNB #43. Activity for “Lamb to The Slaughter”4. Watch “Lamb to the Slaughter”5. G2: Begin reading “The Lottery”Finish reading the story for homework, and write down irony and foreshadowing.

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Write about a memory that involves a car. Have you ever been embarrassed by a car you or someone else was driving? Did you ever get sick in a car as a child? Were you ever bored to death on a car trip? Have you ever been envious of someone’s car? Have you ever had an adventure in a car? Pull up a car memory and describe it.

 Are you an early, late, or on-time person? Why? What do you think made you that way? How do you feel about being that way? How do others feel about it? Will you try to change this about yourself or not? Explain

In your groups…

Talk about the story. What exactly happened? What did Mary’s husband tell her that upset her so much?

Was the ending truly a surprise or not? Discuss each of the statements on the following slide. Decide which ones you agree with most and least.

You won’t all necessarily agree with each other. Try to discuss your ideas with those in your group who disagree with you and listen in turn to their points of view.

Agree or Disagree?

Write the statement your group agrees most strongly with at the top of your paper and list the others in order, down to the ones you agree with least.

On the right hand side of the sheet, you should write down specific lines from the story that PROVE your point of view.

1. Mary didn’t regret what she had done.

2. It is likely that Mary would get away with her crime.

3. Mary suspected that her husband was deceiving her.

4. Mary had all along planned to kill her husband with a leg of lamb.

5. Mary lied to the police because she was pregnant.

6. Patrick Maloney deserved what happened to him.

Make a table like this:

1. Mary didn’t regret what she had done.

2. It is likely that Mary would get away with her crime.

3. Mary suspected that her husband was deceiving her.

4. Mary had all along planned to kill her husband with a leg of lamb.

5. Mary lied to the police because she was pregnant.

6. Patrick Maloney deserved what happened to him.

Statement: Textual Support:

1. This should be the statement your group agrees with the most.

Cite the textual support of the statement here.

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6. This is the statement your group disagrees with most strongly

As you read “The Lottery”…Find two examples of foreshadowing and jot

them down.

Find one example of irony and write it down.

Look for how Shirley Jackson’s use of figurative language adds meaning to the story. Figurative language would be things like: personification, metaphor, simile, imagery, etc.

Your homework is to read “The Lottery”. You can use the link below to listen while you read.

http://mrcoia.com/school/sound/lottery.mp3