Transcript The Lottery - West Johnston High School

The Lottery
By Shirley Jackson
Close Reading
• First Reading: Key Ideas and Details
• Students “scrape the surface” in this reading, connecting their
background knowledge with the text and focusing on key
ideas and details.
• Second Reading: Craft and Structure
• This time, students dig a little deeper, rereading a paragraph or
meaty “chunk,” focusing on text features, organizational
patterns, and content vocabulary the author included.
• Third Reading: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
• The third close reading goes even deeper, requiring students to
synthesize and analyze information from another text or media
such as a video.
• Students record their thinking in written form using graphic
organizers, reading journals, sticky notes, etc.
TIQAIQAIQA
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TIQA is a standard format for writing body paragraphs of essays or research papers. Normally, you can
repeat TIQA twice per paragraph.
• Topic Sentence: This should have the limiting idea of whatever example you are providing in the
paragraph.
• Introduce example or quote: Put the quote or example you are about to provide into context. You may
not just put a quote down. You need to say something such as When Atticus visits Tom in the jail, he tells us, “
(quote).”
• Quote or example: You can quote from dialogue or narration. Or you can paraphrase.
• Analyze the quote or example: After you have provided the example or quote, you must spend a few
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sentences explaining how the example or quote supports the topic sentence.
…if you choose to repeat the TIQA method in the same paragraph, the second T stands for Transition…
• Transition: Use a sentence to transition, or change, from your first topic to your second topic. …
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EXAMPLE PROMPT:
Explain the irony in the poem “Mending Wall.” Consider how the wall between the neighbors actually
affects their relationship. Explain how this irony adds to the poem’s ambiguity. Support your ideas with at
least two details from the poem.
EXAMPLE RESPONSE:
http://www.nclack.k12.or.us/cms/lib6/OR01000992/Centricity/Domain/512/TIQATIQA-How-to-Write-BodyParagraphs.pdf
Activity
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Don’t look at your card yet.
What do you know about lotteries?
Now, turn your cards over.
Who has the black dot?
You have just won the class lottery!!!
Intro
• This story by Shirley Jackson takes place in a small rural
village. The people are gathered for the drawing of a
lottery.
• Consider what you know about small towns. What are
some characteristics of a small town or community?
• Have you ever been to a small town? What was it like?
• When you think of a lottery, what do you expect to take
place?
• How would you define a lottery?
• Have you or do you know someone who has participated
in a lottery?
• What was the outcome?
Intro- Activity
• Guiding Text Marking Question/Prompt: How do the
villagers preserve and change tradition?
• Mark the text with a “t” in places where the town follows
tradition.
• Mark the text with a “c” where the villagers change
tradition or discuss changing tradition.
• How does tradition influence the villagers’ behavior?
Stem Questions
• Individually, write down one stem question from
each category.
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Knowledge
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What happened after . . .?
How many . . .?
Who was it that . . .?
Can you name the . . .?
Who spoke to . . .?
What is . . .?
What do you think might happen next . . .?
Who do you think . . .?
Can you distinguish between . . .?
What differences exist between . . .?
Application
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Comprehension
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Stem Questions
Do you know another instance where . . .?
Could this have happened in . . .?
What factors would you change if . . .?
What questions would you ask of . . .?
Would this information be useful if you had a . . •
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Analysis
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Which events could have happened . . .?
If . . . happened, what might the ending have
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How was this similar to . . .?
What was the underlying theme of . . .?
What do you see as other possible outcomes?
Why did . . . changes occur?
Can you compare your . . . with that
presented in . . .?
Can you explain what must have happened
when . . .?
How is . . . similar to . . .?
What are some of the problems of . . .?
What were some of the motives behind . . .?
What was the turning point in the …?
What was the problem with . . .?
Synthesis
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Can you design a . . . to . . .?
Can you see a possible solution to . . .?
How would you deal with . . .?
Why don’t you devise your own way to deal
with . . .?
What would happen if . . .?
How many ways can you . . .?
Can you create new and unusual uses for . . .?
Evaluation
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Is there a better solution to . . .?
Judge the value of . . .?
Do you think . . . is a good or a bad thing?
How would you have handled . . .?
What changes to . . . would you recommend?
Are you a . . . type of person?
How would you feel if . . .?
How effective are . . .?
What do you think about . . .?
Questions:
Discussion
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Why has Jackson chosen common people for her characters? Could she have
chosen characters from other levels of sophistication with the same effect? What is the
irony of the tone of this story?
What seems to have been the original purpose of the lottery? What do people believe
about it?
Is it important that the original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost? What do
you suppose the original ceremony was like? Why have some of the villages given up
this practice? Why hasn't this one?
What is the significance of Tessie's final scream, "It isn't fair, it isn't right"? What aspect
of the lottery does she explicitly challenge; what aspect goes unquestioned?
This is a different sort of story when you read it for the second time. What elements
(such as Mrs. Hutchinson's attempt to have her daughter, Eva, draw with the family)
might take on a different meaning the second time through?
Some critics insist that the story has an added symbolic meaning. Do you agree? If so,
what is Shirley Jackson trying to tell us about ourselves? (Hint: Consider that this story
was written during the height of the rise of Communism and the Soviet Union.)
Is the lottery a collective act of murder? Is it morally justified? Is tradition sufficient
justification for such actions? How would you respond to cultures that are different
from ours that perform "strange" rituals?
Describe the point of view of the story. How does the point of view affect what we
know about the situation? How does it preserve the story's suspense?
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Post Reading
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Why do you think so much time is spent describing the black box?
What do you think the purpose of the lottery is in the village? Why do you think
people continue to participate in it?
3. Why do you think the lottery is such a long-standing tradition in the village?
4. Does this compare to anything you know in real life? Explain.
5. How do you think the village people feel about the lottery? Explain.
6. What would you have done in Tessie Hutchinson’s situation? Explain.
7. How did you feel about the lottery at the end of the story? What was your
reaction?
8. Do you think this sort of lottery could take place in your own community? Why or
why not? Are there any events that have occurred in your community that
remind you of the events in “The Lottery?”
9. How did your initial understanding of the term “lottery” compare to the lottery in
the story? How did your initial understandings help or confuse your interpretation
of the story?
10. Do you think this story has a message for readers? Explain your view.
11. How have other classmates’ interpretations of the story impacted your own
understanding of it?
Questions:
Literary Devices
1. Name two symbols in “The Lottery.”
2. Give five examples from the story that
show how men have the power in this
society.
3. Give two examples of foreshadowing.
Irony
• Define the term situational irony.
o [Actual outcome of the situation is the opposite of someone’s
expectations]
• Discuss the following two examples of irony from the
story.
o 1. lotteries are supposed to be good not deadly.
o 2. Old Man Warner says, “The lottery keeps us civilized. [This practice does
not seem civilized at all.]
• G. Have students make a short list of possible
themes from the story.
POV
• Consider how this story would change if it was told from
a different point of view.
• How would Bill Hutchinson or Tessie Hutchinson tell the
story?
• What if the reader knew all of their thoughts?
• Write a news story about the event of the lottery,
focusing on an interview with one of the townspeople.
• What would they say about the event?
Visual
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIm93Xuij7k