Congratulations! Your character has just won $1 million dollars! Now it’s your job to tell your character’s story. What’s your character’s name? Job? Personality? Background? Conflict? How will he or she use the million? It’s all up to you, the author. With this project, we’re going to practice writing the same story, but from two different points of view. Your job is to write a news article detailing the news. Look at the article below as an example. Use the small picture of your character to glue onto your paper to make it look authentic. The second point-of-view you will be writing from is your character’s. Create a personality for your character based off of the picture given to you. Look for clues in the picture to think what your character might feel about winning $1 million dollars. Pretend your character keeps a daily journal. Write a journal entry detailing the big win.

LOTTERY WINNER MAY FORFEIT $1 MILLION PRIZE BECAUSE GAMBLING VIOLATED HIS PAROLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2007

BOSTON  —  The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all.

That is because he is also a convicted bank robber who is not supposed to be gambling.

The state probation commissioner's office has scheduled a hearing for Dec. 7 in Barnstable Superior Court to determine whether Timothy Elliott, 55, violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the "$800 Million Spectacular" game at a supermarket.

Elliott already has collected the first of 20 annual $50,000 checks from Massachusetts' lottery commission. A picture of Elliott, holding his first check, was even posted on the lottery's Web site Monday, though it was removed by Wednesday.

Elliott was placed on five years probation after pleading guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a January 2006 heist at a bank on Cape Cod.

Under terms of his probation, Elliott "may not gamble, purchase lottery tickets or visit an establishment where gaming is conducted."

A telephone number for Elliott could not immediately be located on Wednesday, and it was not clear if he had a lawyer.

Lottery spokesman Dan Rosenfeld said the lottery routinely cross references the names of winners with the state Revenue Department to see if they owe back taxes or child support. In those cases, winnings go straight to the Revenue Department.

But in this case, it will be up to the court to determine what will happen with Elliott's winnings.

"This is kind of new territory," he said.