Day 1

The Lottery and Other Stories Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Students should read the following stories:

The Intoxicated

The Daemon Lover

Like Mother Used to Make

Trial By Combat

The Villager

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

  3. 3

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

The Intoxicated

At an acquaintance’s house party, a drunk man converses with the host’s teenage daughter, Eileen. Eileen has been working on a...

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