Our first short story for the high school home school literature class was The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. I read this story in college and since Big Girl likes horror movies, I thought why not dive into a sort of horror story. With The Lottery we had the following assignments - trying to write this without too many spoilers:
1) Comprehension and analysis questions, including the concepts of superstition, authority, continuity, fear
2) Writing an obit for one of the characters
3) Writing a front page newspaper article about the annual event
4) Comparing and contrasting the lottery with the reaping in The Hunger Games
5) An essay explaining why even children are included in the tradition of the lottery
6) Watching the 1996 movie inspired by the short story
For the rest of November we will be studying the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson and then we'll slow down a bit in December with some holiday selections (The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry and Robert Frost's winter/Christmas poems).
During her Christmas break, Big Girl will be reading Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, so she's ready to roll with that big unit at the start of January.
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