Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”–25 Rigorous Tasks AND Guided Reading Questions

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”–25 Rigorous Tasks AND Guided Reading Questions

You are bidding on a combination of an annotated version of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” with guided reading questions and Common Core alignment and 25 rigorous Common Core learning tasks with rubrics, graphic organizers, and supplemental informational texts. You are saving $2.00 by purchasing the items in this combination lot.

This Common Core resource includes an annotated version of Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery." The teacher-created guided reading questions and marginal notes include alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The guided reading questions will help students delve deeper into the complex themes, figurative and connotative meanings, imagery, story structure, irony, and mood that have made it a literary classic.

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This Common Core resource also includes 25 rigorous unit learning tasks for Shirley Jackson’s short story, "The Lottery." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informational texts that have thematic parallels with "The Lottery." The learning tasks will delve deeper into the complex character development, figurative and connotative meanings, and themes that have made it a literary classic.
Critical reading of literary texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. The critical foci of the learning tasks include:


1. Figurative and connotative meanings
2. Citing strong and thorough textual evidence (inferencing)
3. Analyzing themes and their development over the course of the text.
4. Analyzing complex character development
5. Responding to literature using constructed responses and extended writing.
6. Collegial discussions and presenting information.
7. Symbolism, allegory, and irony
8. Plot structure including foreshadowing and suspense
9. Morphology and context clues
10. Analyzing a theme between a written and visual medium
11. Reading and analyzing informational texts


Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”–25 Rigorous Tasks AND Guided Reading Questions by Dr. Joel C. Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.