The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - I'm Lovin' Lit

1 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTable of ContentsTerms of Use2 Table of Contents3 List of Activities, Common Core Standards Alignment, & Difficulty Levels4 Digital Components/GoogleClassroom Guide5 Teaching Guide, Rationale, Lesson Plans, and Procedures: EVERYTHING6-10 Activity 4: Reaction & Reflection11 Activity 5: Comprehension Quiz w/Key12-13 Activity 6: Plot Diagram Analysis w/Key14-15 Activity 7: Vocabulary Guide: Implied Meanings w/Key16-19 Activity 8: Text Evidence Activity w/Key20-21 Activity 9: Analyze Irony w/Key22-23 Activity 10: Allegory Interactive Notebook Lesson NEW!24-27 Activity 11: Allegory Analysis + Historical Context w/Key28-30 Activity 12: Symbolism Quick Notes31-32 Activity 13: Symbolism Analysis for The Lottery w/Key33-34 Activity 14: ComprehensionSkills Test w/Key35-40 Activity 15: Movie Comparison & Analysis w/Key41-44 Activity 16:Analyze Allegory in The Giving Tree w/Key45-48 Activity 17: Essential Question w/Key49-50 List of Activities & StandardsDifficulty Level: *Easy **Moderate **ChallengeActivity 1: Irony Interactive Notebook Lesson* , 2: Irony PrintablesPractice** , 3: Journal Activity* 4: Reaction & Reflection** , , 5: Comprehension Quiz** 6: Plot Diagram Analysis** , 7: Vocabulary Guide: Implied Meanings** , 8: Text Evidence Activity** , , , 9: Analyze Irony in The Lottery ** , , , 10: Allegory Interactive Notebook Lesson** , , , 11: Allegory Analysis + Historical Context** , , , 12.

2 Symbolism Quick Notes** , , 13: Symbolism Analysis for The Lottery ** , , , 14: Comprehension Skills Test** , , , 15: Movie Comparison & Analysis** , , 16: Analyze Allegory: The Giving , , 17: Essential Question** , , , , 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTeacher s Gu ideCommon Core Standards AlignmentGoogle FormsI have made the assessments available in Google Forms. Here, they are self-grading, and I have set them all up with answer keys so they are ready to go for you. You ll need to find these two files in your download folder to use Google Forms. The first file contains the links to the Forms, and the second file is explicit instructions for use. 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTeacher s Gu ideInstructions for Google Classroom Digital ComponentsAll student activities are available in digital format compatible with Google Classroom.

3 They are available in two formats: Google Slides and Google SlidesFirst, I have made all student pages (excluding assessments) in Google Slides format. Students can simply add text boxes to any area they wish to type on. To access the Google Slides for The Lottery , copy and paste the link below into your browser: 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTeaching Guide, Rationale, Lesson Plans, and ProceduresI have also discussed here how I use each activity and included hints and links to help you, too. I went ahead and mapped out the days for you. Feel free to take or leave what you like. Even if you don t plan to follow this schedule, I still recommend reading through this section to get the most out of these lessons and activities were designed to meet the needs of seventh graders during the second half of the school year when students have already been introduced to most major concepts like plot, conflict, character traits and characterization, theme, mood, tone, etc.

4 Teacher s Gu ideDay 11. Activity 1: 25 minutesTypes of Irony Interactive Notebook Lesson Activities 1-2 included, read the instructionswithin the PDF file included in the downloadfolder. Don t skip the three videos, they refabulous and my students LOVE will only be analyzing situational ironyin this story, but I go ahead and teach the threenow so that we re ready when other instancescome Activity 2: 35 minutesTypes of Irony Practice This is great for practicing applying this knowledge and determining the type of irony present in a situation so that your students will recognize irony in the future when they come across it. Again you ll find this PDF in the download 1 Activity 2 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTeacher s Gu ideDay 3: 10 minutesJournal Activity Discuss if 4: 50 minutesRead, Respond, reading this story, I do notdiscuss allegory or multiplemeaning stories or symbolism at all with my students.

5 I wantthem to realize this themselves if at all possible! So,thisis whyIdon thavetheallegorylessonorany activities until later. Find acopy of the story here: here: reading the story and before discussing it even thoughstudents are super eager to discuss it have them reflect andreact with , put them into groups and letthem discuss before regrouping. I love to circulate during thistime and see who has figured out what s going on here!Day 5: 25 minutesComprehension Quiz Basic Comprehension(Recall Facts) This quiz checks for basiccomprehension and recall of the story. There arenohigher order thinking questions on this quiz,no inferring, no analyzing, no drawingconclusions, etc. so I do not recommend thatstudents use a copy of the story for this quizunless they need that as a testing included (not shown) 6: 20 minutesPlot Diagram Graphic Organizer This should beautomatic and independent by now, but providescaffolding as 7: 30 minutesVocabularyGuide:Implied MeaningsThisguiderequiresstudentsto thinkcriticallyabouttheuseoflanguage and waswrittenspecificallytohelpthem answer questions onstandardized 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 Activity 6 Activity 7 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTeacher s Gu ideDay 41.

6 Activity 8: 25 minutesText Evidence Activity This activity was designed to give students targeted practice analyzing text evidence in a similar way to how they will on standardized tests WITHOUT being a multiple choice test. Students read and analyze the same eight pieces of text evidence and must match them with a statement that says what each piece of text is evidence Activity 9: 35 minutesAnalyze Irony in The LotteryStudentsexplainhowironyis with partners or groups before regrouping to 51. Activity 10: 20 minutesAllegory Interactive Notebook Lesson Don t skip this 3d note-taking opportunity. I know that it ll take 20 minutes to make this page and 2 minutes to lecture/notes the info instead, but I can promise you that if your students create this 2-level template they ll never forget that allegory means 2 levels or 2 layers. It s worth your 20 minutes! I ve included a couple of super short videos to help you introduce this topic too.

7 Now,thisis afterI veletthestory and its meaning stew withinmykidsfora vebeenaskingmeandthinkingaboutthestory smeaningsothatthere sspeculation running WILD, and they re so ready to dig into Activity 11: 45 minutesAllegory Analysis + Historical ContextStudents read ShirleyJackson sexplanation for writing the story, then reflect on (or research) historical context. This site doesn t include all of the information needed but it s a good overview for the decade and I highly recommend the video near the bottom of the page (about ten minutes). 8 Activity 9 Activity 10 Activity 11 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTeacher s Gu ideDay 12: 25 minutesComplete/discuss Symbolism Quick Notes toreview common symbols in 13: 25 minutesSymbolisminTheLottery Thisis anothergoodoneforgroup or partner discussion. Students thinkabout the symbols in The Lottery and brainstormwhat each key object may 14: 40-50 minutesComprehension Skills Test.

8 Meant to be given alongwith a copy of the selection, though I wouldn tallow students to use annotated selection unless itwas a test modification. Keys included as always(not shown).Activity 14 Activity 12 Activity 13 Day 15: 60 minutesThe Lottery Short Film Analysis & again hardhere!Plus students lovethese movies, and this one is well done and sticksvery close to the story. Actual movie is 18 : Download: 14 Activity 15 2018erincobb Story of the Month"The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonTeacher s Gu ideDay 91. Activity 16: 60 minutesAnalyze allegory in The Giving Tree by Silverstein Readyourstudentstheclassic picture book or use one of the video reading links below. Then, you ll help your students to make connections and figure out the allegory how does the story symbolize the mother-child relationship? Then, turn it on its head by telling students it s actually about mother nature and mankind. They ll complete the same analysis with a different allegory : Download Link: 101.

9 Activity 16: 30-45 minutesEssential Question: Tie it all together. The big SHE-BANG. Boom-shakalaka. Hard stuff. Good luck. :) I have included my own answers to help you, but these are by no means the only acceptable answers and opinions. I always accept virtually any answers from my students that they justify or back up with evidence. But I will totally call them out on writing fluff that means absolutely nothing. Activity 16 Activity 16 Activity 17 2018erincobb "The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonShort Story of the MonthReading LiteratureSkill: Recall DetailsComprehension QuizChoose the best people of the village met at 10:00 AM,which meant could be home for their could report to workimmediately could come with their could skip their Lottery was conducted by Mr. Summers,who had time for such activities was not had no was of the population of the village grew,_____ were replaced with slips of paper inthe Lottery of of of was late for the gathering?

10 Family member was responsible fordrawing a slip of paper from the box? oldest s what order were last names called? to to to smallest, according to thenumber of family members was exempt from the Lottery ? young drawing, the villagers were the slip of paper after only aquick the slip with members of theirown families write down their the paper folded in hand withoutlooking until everyone Mrs. Hutchinson was singled out, thecrowd rushed the slips of their the end of the story, Mrs. it isn t fair, it isn t right! b. this doesn t make any sense! c. the Lottery should end! d. I have children! 2018erincobb "The Lottery " by Shirley JacksonShort Story of the MonthVocabularyFocus: How Authors Use Words & PhrasesActivity 7 Read each excerpt below. Then, answer the questions and annotate the text as words does the author use to suggest that blah blah blah?Vocabulary Guide: Implied MeaningsThe morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.