"The Lottery" Socratic Seminar Activity: Handout, Discussion Prompts, and Rubric
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Socratic Seminars are an extremely effective discussion strategy for any topic—at least when students are prepared. These Socratic Seminar materials for Shirley Jackson's famous short story, "The Lottery" are designed to give you and your students everything you need for a successful discussion: student handouts, teacher instructions, and high-quality single-point rubrics.
The two-sided CCSS aligned handout starts with a note-catcher for students to use when reading "The Lottery." Afterward, it guides them as they create their own higher-level questions about the text, which they'll later use to lead the discussion. Once they've finished the pre-reading materials and interacted with the text, they can begin the Socratic Seminar, accessing the included sentence frames and additional analysis questions if needed. After the discussion, they'll take part in a brief reflection, and you can use one of the two single-point rubrics to grade their work.
This product includes:
1) A two-sided, CCSS aligned handout that includes spaces for:
- Taking notes about the text
- Creating higher-level, probing questions for the seminar
- Accessing sentence frames during the discussion
- Accessing textual analysis questions during the discussion
- Taking notes about the discussion
- Reflection on the discussion
2) Two single-point rubrics for grading
3) Teacher instructions for hosting a Socratic Seminar
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