Name: Ayse Oral

Lesson # ___4__

Student’s Name: P.T.

Grade: 7 Age: 12

Reading Level: Narrative - H.S. level 9th Grade/Expository - Level 5

Objective: Student will share her ideas by responding a prompt on an admit-slip (Daniels,

Zemelman, & Steineke, 2007) to incite critical thinking skills as she begins to read “The Lottery”

by Shirley Jackson, read aloud with her teacher, and she will respond to what she has read by

stopping every ten minutes for a writing break (pgs. 31, 40).

Rationale: Students yearn for a sense of excitement and they regularly indulge in mystery.

Often times, the mystery of what will happen in the next 45 minutes of class is taken out of a

lesson, and replaced with monotonous routine work. However, during this lesson, the student

will be notified of the strategies she will be using, and I will take part in the lesson as well to

demonstrate. Initially, the student will read a very alluring question that is somewhat aligned to

the theme of the short story, “The Lottery.” Both, the teacher and the student will respond to the

question and share their ideas with one another. Next, I will model a read aloud with the student

and read with her. Every ten minutes, the student will reflect upon what she has read thus far in

order to encourage her to dialogue with the text. In addition, I will join in on writing as well and

later, we will share what we have written during our ten minute writing breaks to dually

encourage a discussion. These two methods will both, enlighten the student and bring a little fun

to the idea of reading. Finally, the student will write anything she has learned on an index card

and place it in the “House of Knowledge” box.

Materials:

The Book of Questions (Stock, G. Ph.D, 1985, p. 19)

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

Student’s Journal

Pens/Pencils/Paper

Audio Recorder

Procedure:

1. Prompt from The Book of Questions (Stock, G. Ph.D., 1985, p. 19)

“You’re given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their death and twice

repeating the word goodbye. People die a natural death and noone will suspect you.

Are there any situations in which you would use this power? Explain why or why

not”

2. Student and teacher will respond to the prompt and share (5 mins)

3. Read aloud with teacher, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

4. Ten Minute writing breaks

5. Share what we have written during our writing breaks

6. Student will share words she has written from prior lessons to define each one

7. Student will write what she has learned today on index card and place it in the “House of

Knowledge” box.

Reflection: Student carried over previous strategies into this lesson: coding, highlighting, and

deciphering the meaning of new words using prefixes/suffixes/prior knowledge/and context

clues. Student/Teacher correspondence was successful.

Note: for the future an entire group project may be created using this lesson as a foundation.