1. What would you do if you won the lottery?

2. Learning Target
Studying the author’s choices in terms of pacing, word choice, tone, and mood can help us understand and analyze a text.

3. Tone What is tone? Formal tone? Informal tone?
What are some other kinds of tone? Turn to your neighbor and come up with a few examples.

4. profusely
He was profusely glad that he had remembered about the test tomorrow just in time.
She thanked him profusely for all that he’d done to help.

5. profusely
(adv) plentifully, in a freely available way

6. perfunctory
Answering his many fan letters became perfunctory after a while.
The mechanic performed a perfunctory inspection of the car.

7. perfunctory
(adj) done mechanically and without enthusiasm

8. petulantly
She behaved petulantly all night because her mother forced her to go grocery shopping with her.
The little boy cried petulantly and made a face at the coach when he was told to run laps with the others.

9. petulantly
(adv) in a grouchy or bad tempered way

10. defiantly She defiantly refused to eat her vegetables.
He slammed the door defiantly after his mom said he was grounded.

11. defiantly
(adv) boldly, rebelliously

12. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

13. What is the setting of
the story?
What is the mood of the
first few paragraphs?

14. Why does the village continue to hold the lottery year after year
Why does the village continue to hold the lottery year after year? Find evidence/quotes from the text to support your theory.

15. Learning Target
The author can influence how we read and understand a text by the use of specific word choices and their connotations.

16. Analysis Questions (Work independently, and save the worksheet to your computer when you’re done. Don’t start on the Critical Vocabulary section yet.)

17. Denotation

18. Denotation
The literal meaning of the word that can be found in the dictionary.

19. What are the
denotations of the underlined words?
Is that what the author meant?
The aroma of hot soup wafted through the room.
That chick over there said they were out of cookies.
He was my rock.

20. Connotation

21. Connotation
The feelings or ideas associated with a word.

22. which of the words in the following
With a partner, decide
which of the words in the following
sentences have a negative connotation.
Every morning my neighbor takes his mutt to the
park. It always barks loudly when leaving the building.
You need to be pushy when you are looking for a job.
Bedford is an uppity neighborhood, but the rents are cheap.
On my flight to Los Angeles, I sat next to this babe. She was absolutely stunning.

23. What’s the
denotation and connotation
of the following words/phrases?
The word “dogma”
“You’re such a snake!”
Using the word “kid” versus “child”
Using the word “cheap” versus “inexpensive”
Using the word “childish” versus “childlike”
Using the word “cunning” versus “intelligent”

24. Vocabulary Strategy: Denotation and Connotation
Work with a partner to finish the worksheet.

25. Exit Question
How does knowing the connotation of various words/phrases help us understand and analyze a text?

26. What are some words we use in the Pacific Northwest that you have noticed are different from what people say in other parts of the country?

27. Learning Target
The author can create character and setting by through word choice and their use of colloquialisms.

28. Foreshadowing
What is it?

29. Foreshadowing
A writer’s use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the story.
What are some examples of foreshadowing in “The Lottery”?
How does foreshadowing add to the tension in the story?

30. Foreshadowing
When did you first begin to suspect what the lottery was for?
When did you first begin to suspect what the pile of stones was for?
How did this affect the tone and the mood?

31. Theme

32. Theme
An underlying message about life or human nature that the writer wants the reader to understand.
What do you think is one theme that can be found in “The Lottery”? Turn and talk to a partner about it.

33. Critical Vocabulary (it’s at the bottom of your Analysis Questions)
Work with a partner to complete the Critical Vocabulary section on your worksheet. Be prepared to talk about your answers with the class if there is time.
Once you are done with this section, you will submit the whole worksheet
to turnitin.com

34. Colloquialism

35. Colloquialism Words or expressions used in
everyday speech in a particular region.

36. Colloquialism regional expressions that
sometimes are not standard English
Examples:
gonna, wanna, go nuts, ya’ll, bamboozle,
bunch of numpties, look blue, eat my dust,
you’re driving me up the wall, old as the hills

37. Colloquialism vs Slang
They are both informal forms of language.
But how are they different?

38. Colloquialism vs Slang
“There goes the grooviest cat in Hollywood!”
“Gag me with a spoon!” “Totally rad!”
These are all expressions of the past.
A colloquial expression is informal, but isn’t time bound. It’s a saying that is often region bound (what people say in different part of the country / different regions. It doesn’t fade over time ya’ll.)

39. Colloquialism regional expressions that
sometimes are not standard English
Turn to a partner and come up with a list of colloquialisms that you’ve hear, read, or used in your everyday life.

40. Colloquialism regional expressions that
sometimes are not standard English
Turn to a partner and come up with some colloquialisms that you found in lines Be prepared to explain what they tell us about the characters in the story.

41. Guiding Questions You may work with a partner if you wish.
Make sure to include textual evidence when needed.
Turn in the completed questions to turnitin.com when you’re finished.

42. What are some different kinds of word choice that we’ve learned about in the last few days?

43. Learning Target
Studying the author’s choices in terms of pacing, word choice, tone, and mood can help us understand and analyze a text.

44. Work Time
You may work on the following until 8:00 when we start the test. Make sure everything is turned in that needs to be.
Guiding Questions Activity
Submit to turnitin.com
Analysis Questions/Critical Vocabulary worksheet
Vocabulary Strategy: Denotation and Connotation worksheet
Hard copy handed in up front
Study for the test!