H4 P1 W6 short story the Lottery

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Open the link in Magister homework

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

Goals: 

- I understand the story of The Lottery

- I can indicate the different fictional elements in the Lottery

Freytag's pyramid

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

Let's read together

While we read: look at the elements we see in fiction (see magister)  and indicate how they are present in the story.

Homework 3/10

(finish reading the story and) indicate all fictional elements in the Lottery. 

Get out your homework

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

The Lottery

Homework check

What happens when you win the lottery?

What is the plot of The Lottery?

What is the plot of The Lottery?

it's lottery day

traditions

- box gets readied

- family's draw a piece of paper

- Hutchinson family wins and draws again

Tessie wins

Tessie argues unfairness,

while villagers gather stones

Tessie is stoned to death

unclear, but the villagers probably go on with their lives until the next lottery

What is the point of view in The Lottery?

1. first person pov
2. third person pov
3. omniscient pov
4. limited omniscient pov

What is the theme of The Lottery?
(i.e. what lesson can you learn)

Jackson’s point is that every age and every culture has its own illogical and even harmful traditions, which are obeyed in the name of ‘tradition’.

Not all traditions should be followed blindly.

which conflict is present in The Lottery

1. man versus nature
2. man versus society
3. man versus man
4. man versus self