9/11 Commemoration - "The Lottery," cont'd (Old Man Warner - Durbin Analysis - Discussion) - Timeline of Texas History

Today we:

Commemorated the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks on New York City & the Pentagon

Continued with Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

• Role Played Old Man Warner's defense of the Lottery against the "Young Fools" (Read loose, incomplete transcript here at 9/11/14 point.)
• Watched & discussed USC Professor James Durbin's video analysis of "The Lottery"
• Analyzed logical fallacies involved in "The Lottery"
• post hoc ergo propter hoc = after this, therefore because of this
• Chronological Snobbery Fallacy
• Argument from Tradition Fallacy

Analyzed a Timeline of Texas History

• What do you notice?
• Write 2 important events, people, or developments from the CHART: Time Periods of Texas History onto their appropriate places on the Timeline of Texas History

Assignment - Due Friday
Finish writing 2 important events, as above

"The Lottery," Day 2

Today, students:

• Read the text of "The Lottery," and
• Highlighted it using the Diigo Chrome Extension or a Mac-based pdf. annotation tool
• Compared it with the video version
• Wrote interpretive discussion questions
• Raised and discussed their questions; here are the notes taken by this week's Class Historian, The Right The Honorable 12345.

Assignment - Due Thursday: Be sure to view again the video of "The Lottery" and take VideoNot.es.

• There was some confusion about this assignment from yesterday, so be sure and complete it by tomorrow.
• Don't forget to put a good title on your VideoNot.es.
• Share your VideoNot.es with me so I can read your analysis.

Thinglink Followup - Interesting/Important Time Periods - "The Lottery"

Today students:

• Discussed any problems associated with widgeting their Thinglinks from yesterday
• Wrote a blog post listing and explaining the 3 time periods of Texas history in which they are most interested and what they consider to be the 3 most important time periods of Texas history, with reasons why.
• Did Pre-Viewing activities over Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery"
• Brainstormed what is meant by a lottery, pre-viewing activities we could do, etc.
• Held a lottery involving the disbursement of cash rewards to the winners and condolences to the person who drew the big black dot
• Viewed the 1969 video version of "The Lottery," periodically stopping it to see what students were absorbing as they watched and making hypotheses as to what might lie ahead as it progressed. Part 1 - Part 2 - Here are the Student Comments While Watching "The Lottery."

Assignment for Wednesday

• Watch the video version again and do a VideNot.es as you watch.
• Now that you know what happens, pay particular attention to details that set up and drive the story.