Collections Grade 10 Guiding Questions Collection 1 “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson Read the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. Then‚ reread the lines indicated with each question below. Answer each question‚ citing text evidence. 1. Lines 1–10: Based on the first paragraph‚ explain what you can infer about the village and its people. The village seems to be very 2. Lines 1–18: Explain the tone in these lines. 3. Lines 38–40: Why might the author have chosen to write this sentence
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“The Lottery” Sacrifice Sacrifice can be recognized at all levels‚ for instance‚ in 1960 during the Vietnam War over 58‚220 Americans sacrificed their lives to stand for the people‚ and land that they love; however‚ these men and women sacrificed at a large range: their lives‚ leftover bread‚ or even a family member (Nation Archives). Sacrifice has so many different rankings that it truly is mind blowing. In comparison in the passage “The Lottery”‚ written by Shirley Jackson‚ each year someone
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Choice Will a bad choice‚ lead you to your own murder? In the story “The Lottery”‚ we witness the murder of a woman as a form of sacrifice; the villagers must attend that event to follow their tradition‚ which doesn’t give them a choice to think for themselves. In the films: The Second Renaissance I&II‚ we witness the murder of humans and violence between both the robots and humans‚ robots wanted peace‚ but the human choose not to‚ leading them to their destruction. In Matriculated‚ we witness the
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My Most Memorable Academic Experiences: High School and College I am looking forward to describing my most memorable high school and college experiences. I would really love for my teachers to appreciate me for all the hard work I’ve done. For those people that didn’t know about my ambition and what it really meant to sacrifice‚ it meant a lot to my family. I’ve gotten involved in school activities‚ community service‚ and school events and a lot more. I felt that once I graduated from school I
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On a daily basis‚ humans are surrounded by noise and unable to avoid its ubiquitous presence. This poses a major problem for teenage garage bands‚ whose parental units do not approve of ear piercing feedback and novice percussionists. Although there is no guaranteed solution to the cacophony‚ sound absorbing material acts as a “noise blanket” to reduce sound to a more tolerable level. The objective of our experiment is to determine if sound absorption by foam and related materials changes with the
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The Sugar Act The Sugar Act was not really new legislation by the time British Parliament passed it in 1764‚ but mere an extension of the 1733 Molasses Act. The Molasses Act placed an import tax of 6 pence per gallon of molasses and a 5 shilling tax per hundred pounds of sugar not produced in the British West Indies. Colonists generally ignored the Molasses Act and intimidated tax officials or smuggled the contraband into the colonies. The Molasses
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Hypothesis If different age groups are placed in a room for several minutes‚ then the older they are the more time they will think has passed by because time perception is affected by age. Purpose The purpose of this project is to find out if time perception changes with age. Materials ● 3 people ( 1 8 yr. old‚ 1 33 yr. old‚ 1 57 yr.old) ● empty room ● stop watch Procedure Gather a group of subjects‚ ages 8 to 57. Simply tell the people you are conducting an
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Betrayal is the first similarity between the two stories‚ “The Veldt” & “The Lottery”‚ this is since both stories have characters that have betrayed their own people. The Veldt & the Lottery have their differences and similarities throughout the story. In the Veldt‚ the children have betrayed their own parents‚ while in “the Lottery” Tessie Hutchinson’s supposed “friends” wanted to stone her to death over a lottery ticket. The children and the villagers betrayed their own kind because they wanted
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1. Should hospitals run lotteries to create revenue for their budgets? Why OR why not? Provide reasons. In my opinion‚ hospitals should run lotteries to create revenue for their budgets‚ Many hospitals today are lacking the required space for patients and staff. There are outdated machines still being used and the shortage of staff prevents the medical industry from delivering adequite health care. It would be beneficial for the hospitals to run lotteries. I will support this point of view by
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It is through great suspense and irony that Shirley Jackson tells the story of a lottery in a small town. The result of the lottery is also left open to be interpreted by the reader. All this could not be done without the use of the third person objective point of view in which the story ‚“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ is told. Shirley Jackson uses situational irony as well as verbal irony to keep the readers on their toes and especially to keep the ending a surprise. Achieving this irony would
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