DO NOW
In your opinion, is the lottery FAIR, moral or immoral? Why are people so afraid of change?
Direct Instruction
summary of The Lottery and symbolism
Choose one of the following constructed response questions. Use the graphic organizer to write your draft. Then get a NEO to type into prose form.
1. Analyze how the main character, Tessie, changes over time. Use information from the passage to support your answer.
4. Analyze how the BLACK BOX is a symbol of a dying tradition. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
Guided / Independent
Below are the IRONY questions from yesterday. If you did not finish them, do so now!!
1. What is situational irony?
2. What is ironic about the setting? Explain.
3. What is ironic about Mr. Summers' name?
4. What is ironic about Tessie telling Mr. Summers, " There's Don and Eva....make them take their chance!" (page 5)
5. What is ironic about little Davey laughing when he put his hand into the box? (page 6) How old do you infer Davey is?
6. What is ironic about Old Man Warner saying, "people ain't the way they used to be."? page (6)
7. What is ironic about Nancy and Bill Jr. laughing after they open their papers and they are blank and they already know little Davey's is blank as well? Explain.
8. What is ironic about Mr. Summer's saying "Let's finish quickly,"
(page 7)?
9. What is ironic about little Davey getting pebbles to throw?
10. What is ironic about Tessie screaming " It isn't fair, it isn't right?" at the end?
Check for Understanding
Individual student checks during independent work.
Q & A
Closure
2. Analyze how the third person objective point of view influences our understanding of the characters in The Lottery. Use information from the text to support your answer.
3. Consider the THEME that "people can be unpredictable." Discuss this theme as it applies to both The Lottery and Lamb to the Slaughter.
Review for test tomorrow.
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