Friday, September18 - Lamb to the Slaughter

Objective: By the end of class, students will identify and analyze dramatic and situational irony in short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW

Identify three specific things from the text that Mary does to suggest that she loves her husband (page 318) and two things that Patrick does that suggests something is wrong.

Direct Instruction

Review answers to yesterday's in class questions.


Read pages 320-324. Identify situational, dramatic and verbal irony.

Guided

1. Complete plot structure.

2. Identify one example of dramatic irony, situational irony and verbal irony from the story and explain each in detail.

Independent

Constructed Response

1. Analyze Mary Maloney's behavior immediately after killing Patrick in "Lamb to the Slaughter" and explain why she behaves the way she does.

2.  If you were Mary, and the if the murder was an accident, what would you have done?



Check for Understanding

Individual student checks during independent work

Closure

Exit Pass

Do you think Mary committed a crime of passion, is insane, or is a cold-blooded killer that premeditated the whole murder? Support your answer with evidence from the text.