ENGLISH 7

✷Late pass & new mugshots handed out.

✷Finish week three worksheet. Turn in basket when done. Finish for homework if not done in class. 

✷Vocabulary quiz, Week 3. Turn in basket when done. 

HW: Tues: Finish Week 3 worksheet, if not done in class.

Weds: Planner

Thurs Mugs--Week 11

Friday: Refugee Vocabulary, Week 4, worksheet soon!  

ENGLISH 8

Turned in Caged Bird questions.

QW: Write down on scratch paper as many words as can think of when you hear the word lottery: 

The Lottery (20 minutes listen/read) By Shirley Jackson.

Background, the author and the story. Handout and worksheet. 

Written in 1948, after World War II, and published in the prestigious New Yorker Magazine, the public backlash was instant. People canceled their subscriptions to the magazine. Some thought it was real and wanted to know where they could go see it in action.

 "The Lottery is like the world's creepiest public service announcement against peer pressure. Similar to those warnings about drinking or smoking--except Jackson is warning against unthinkingly following along with a group."

Jackson later said: “I suppose I had hoped by setting a particularly brutal ancient rie in the present and in my own village to shock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.” 

HW: Tues: 1- A worksheet and 2- Write at least ONE question about the story.

Thought-provoking and serious. NOT a yes/no answer. 

Maybe start with: What would happen if... OR Who might care if...OR Suppose that…?Friday: Biography due.