1. Bellringer
Have your After Reading handout and your Directed Note-Taking handout on your desk for grading while you complete the task below.

2. “The Lottery”
Lesson 3

3. I Can… Discuss “The Lottery” with classmates.
9-10.SL.CC.1 Initiate and participate effectively with varied partners in a range of collaborative discussions on appropriate 9th - 10th grade topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Complete a timed writing activity.
9-10.RL.KID.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development.

4. You Will Need…

5. Partner Work
Discuss the question above with your partner. Make sure you work together to find evidence from the text to support your position.

6. Sample Response
The end of the story was shocking. The fact that the lottery was in fact a punishment was not revealed at all at the beginning of the story where a happy mood was created by describing a “sunny” society. People even laughed when Mrs. Hutchinson was late.

7. Guiding Questions if You Need Assistance:
Partner Work
Discuss the question above with your partner. Make sure you work together to find evidence from the text to support your position.
Guiding Questions if You Need Assistance:
What is the subject of “The Lottery”?
What is Jackson saying about this subject?
How does she use the text to further this message?
How does this relate to “Hope, Despair, and Memory”?
Sample response: In “The Lottery” the people of the town keep reliving a cycle of violence because they do not allow themselves to be informed by memories of injustice. This is exactly the problem Wiesel is explaining in the opening paragraphs of “Hope, Despair, and Memory” with his anecdotes about his experiences during the Holocaust. While Jackson’s text creates a picture of a picturesque town with an underlying evil to demonstrate the dangers of clinging to tradition, Wiesel also uses imagery mixed with details of his own personal experiences as a victim of the Nazis to deliver his message.  

8. Writing Prompt
You have the rest of the class period to work on your first draft of an essay responding to the prompt below.
Write a multi-paragraph response to the following questions:
What ideas or themes does “The Lottery” present that are similar to Wiesel’s “Hope, Despair, and Memory”?
What makes each author—Jackson and Wiesel—effective in its delivery of that message?