Daily Lessons for Teaching The Lottery

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Detailed Summary & Analysis The student will define the short story and classify Shirley Jackson's THE LOTTERY. The student will compare short stories to novels.

1) 1. The teacher will open a discussion on the short story by determining what short stories the students are already familiar with. The discussion will center around keeping the short story focused on characters and action that takes place in a...
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