Tuesday, Sept 24 - Lamb to the Slaughter

Objective: By the end of class students will analyze character and the effect of IRONY on short fiction in order to improve reading comprehensive skills.

DO NOW - 

Identify one example of DRAMATIC IRONY in Lamb to the Slaughter and one example of SITUATIONAL IRONY on the handout provided. The definitions are below if you have forgotten them.

1. Situational Irony - when the opposite happens of what you expect
2. Dramatic Irony - when the reader or audience knows something that a character does not (helps create suspense)




Direct Instruction

We discussed Mary as the PROTAGONIST of LTTS. What does that mean?

She is also a DYNAMIC character. What does this mean?

We know a lot about Mary also because it is written in 3rd Person Limited POV which means we know everything Mary, and only Mary, thinks and feels. 


Guided


Use the handout and the character trait sheets I gave you last week to analyze Mary's character BEFORE she killed him and then, at the bottom, how she became AFTER she killed him. 

BE sure to provide specific textual evidence for each trait that you assign to her in the space provided.

Independent

Constructed Response ( use information that you found from Guided work today to answer this prompt in paragraph form.

Mary is a Dynamic character. Analyze Mary's character traits and behavior before she killed her husband, Patrick and then after. How has she changed. Use textual evidence to support your answer.

short film