Seventh Grade.
Intro and Conclusion Handout.
Finish going over PREYEE.
 Vocabulary for "One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts."
Begin reading, p349.
 
 
 

Eighth Grade.
Intro and Conclusion Handout.
Finish "The Lottery"
After Questions:

• What might be the purpose of this Lottery? How do you think it started?
• Why do people continue to participate?
• Are these people "evil"?
• How could the lottery be stopped?
• What is the story "about"? What's the author's point about society?
• How does the author make a seemingly impossible incident feel so real and inevitable?
• Compare this story with "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street." What message do they have in common?

Quiz:

1. (quote) Mrs. Jackson actually foreshadows the ending very early in the story. What is our first clue?
2. How do they decide in what order to draw for the lottery?
3. The are actually two rounds to the lottery. Explain.
4. What is on the slip of paper Tessie Hutchinson draws that signifies she is the "winner"?
5. (quote) In the last paragraph, there is an especially horrifying line that shows just how deeply the lottery has warped this village. Quote it.
6. How could the villagers argue that Tessie was wrong when she says at the end, "It isn't fair"?
7. What ancient cultural practice is similar to the lottery?
8. (bonus for extra credit +2) Old Man Warner actually says something that shows the original purpose of the lottery. Quote him.