Comp/Lit 9: 10/12/10

"The Lottery"

• The period started with the students finishing their essay on "Good Hands," "ESPN: Outside the Lines," or "30 Days in a Wheelchair".  They had 15 minutes to complete the essay they started last class period.
• During this time, I collected the singed homework card and the author study redo.
• Next, I distributed "The Lottery" packet.
• On the inside of the front cover, students responded to this statement: "We are going to have a lottery today."
• Students shared their responses with the class.
• Then the lottery started. I had a black box in the middle of the room with slips of paper in it. I called each student up in alphabetical order to draw a piece of paper. The students were instructed to not look at the paper. They were to put it aside until we finished the story.
• I assisted the students in setting up their Interactive Notebook in order to take notes on the story. In addition to taking general notes about they story, they were to look for conflict, theme and foreshadowing. 
• I read the story to the class. Students took notes during the reading.
• I stopped at the end of each column/page so that the students could take notes.
• By the end of the story, the students were no longer excited about the lottery; nevertheless, we completed out class lottery.
• I introduced the homework assignment-to write a memo to one of two people. The memo must follow the assigned format and have 4 paragraphs. The memo must be sent in an email to me: sminyard@Lghs.net, by the time class begins on Thursday October 14.
• The four paragraphs for the memo are as follows: 1. Introduction-Explain your position (agree or disagree) with general reasons; 2. Expand-add specific details from the text (at least one quote); Development- Add additional examples; 4. Conclusion-a call to action.  See the sample on page 12 in the packet.
• Homework: Finish reading "Suspending Moral Judgment", Write and send the memo, study the commonly confused words.