KE English 1D (Week Twenty-Nine / Thirty)
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1. Finish translation
2. Warm-up: Mind Map
MEDIA
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The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was a popular American novelist and short story writer of twentieth century, known for her forte in mystery and horror fiction. Supernatural, sinister and mysterious elements played significant role in her works. Her notable works include the short story The Lottery and the novel The Haunting of Hill House.On paper, Shirley Hardie Jackson was born on December 1916 but falsely claimed to have been born in 1919 so as to appear younger than her husband. She grew up in San Francisco, California where her family lived in a middle-class suburban area. Since a very early age Jackson developed an avid reading habit and in her adolescence she began writing stories and poetry.n 1948, the same year as the publication of her first novel, her iconic short story, “The Lottery”, appeared in The New Yorker. The readers’ response was highly negative which they manifested through considerable amount of hate-mail. The story has now been included in the literary canon and is a required study in an English fiction course taught worldwide. It is one of the monumental short fictional works of the twentieth century.She is an inspiration for some of the major contemporary horror fiction writers including Richard Matheson, Stephen King and Neil Gaiman. At the age of 48, Shirley Jackson died in her sleep in 1965.
1. Take notes while you read - interesting facts, names, places, characterizations, etc.
2. Read slowly, underline words that you do not know.
3. Pay attention to the setting - where and when.
PDF: http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-S/1820/J%20Johnston/The_Lottery_with_questions_Shirley_Jackson.pdf
HW: Re-read the story again. BEFORE, answer these questions:
Lesson: discussion questions
Lesson:
1. Share our creative responses
Edgar Allen Poe
The Tell Tale Heart was a short story that brought him world acclaim. It was first published in 1843 when Poe was thirty four years old. This thought provoking short story was first put into print in Boston, Massachusetts in a journal called The Pioneer. Tell Tale Heart was considered Gothic fiction during this Romantic Movement time period.
A Tell Tale Heart is a story of a murder most heinous and a narrator who fights his insanity. The Tell Tale Heart is a short story about a narrator who can not stand the pale blue eye of the old man that lives with the narrator. In this story, the narrator, has such acute senses that this eye seems to be driving the narrator crazy.
American Gothic? n Gothic Fiction
1. Settings most often include large, drafty old houses that have "been in the family for years." Since castles in the American landscape were practically unheard of, early Gothic fiction writers began substituting the family estate for the traditional castle. 2. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense that is enhanced by a plot which seeks to discover the secrets lying within the supernaturally charged environment. 3. A ghostly legend, an unexplainable occurrence, or a story about a horrible death or murder that took place at the family estate in question. 4. Omens, foreshadowing, and dreams usually play a large role in the mysterious air that is created within the story. 5. Tales include highly charged emotional states like: terror, a feeling that one is on the brink of insanity, anger, agitation, an exaggerated feeling of some impending doom, and obsessive love. 6. Supernatural events: ghosts, doors that open themselves, unexplained sounds, etc. 7. Damsels in distress are frequent. Women who are frightened and confused, wandering around lost, or dying due to a slow and unexplainable ailment. 8. Words designed to evoke images of gloom and doom: dark, foreboding, forbidding, ghostly, etc. 9. Romantic themes often involve the death of a man or woman in the throes of some great passion, the obsessive nature of a man or woman in love, or excessive grief one feels upon the loss of a loved one. |
PDF: https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Poe/Tell-Tale_Heart.pdf
Discussion Q's
1.) Characterize the speaker / narrator of the tale.
2.) Why is the narrator relating this story to us?
3.) What causes the narrator's demise?
4.) Would you consider this story to be "stream-of-consciousness"? Why or why not?
5.) How do the narrator's claims about his "acute senses" change over the course of the story?
6.) What little details do you notice as the story progresses? How are these little details important?
7.) What questions do you have about this story that have not yet been answered?
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