The Lottery by Shirly Jackson

This week was dominated by the full-length TOEFL test we took and reviewed. Please don't be disheartened if you did not do as well as you had hoped. We will take another test in eight weeks. I am most interested in your progress and improvement, which I know will come.

That said, it is no coincidence that the person who received the highest score is the one student who has never missed class or come late to class. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . . .  I will let you infer the meaning there.

9/26 and 9/26

On these days we focused on Listening for Categories and Chronologies. We started off with text exercises and spent some time on academic notetaking using this handout to practice classifying information. You will find links to the lectures from class below, in case you would like to go back and listen once more.
Roman Baths
Early Animation
Sculpture

We also worked on a new strategy to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in the context of a sentence: Using Adjective Clauses. You can find a link to the practice exercises here. This packet must be completed for homework.

In the advanced integraive portion of the class, we read part 1 of The Lottery by Shirly Jackson. This is considered one of the most important short stories in American fiction. You can find a link to the first part of the story (with vocabulary and definitions) here.

Homework for these days includes:

1. Complete part 1 of The Lottery and anwer all questions
2. Complete Vocabulary Strategy 6
3. Complete take home quiz on "Harrison Bergeron" and "Benedict Arnold" lessons
4. Study for CGT section 5 quiz

9/27

Today we continued to practice matching and classifying questions for the TOEFL listening section. We also discussed using different types of graphic organizers to take notes on a lecture or reading or to plan an essay. Here is a link to the handout, describing various types of graphic organizers. Here
is a link to Academic Note Taking Practice 7, which requires you to use the spider or web graphic organizer to organize a main idea, supportive ideas, and details. Below you will find the two lectures that we listened to in order to practice this skill.
Overkill Theory
Animal Medicine

We also discussed the conclusion of the story The Lottery. You can find a link to the conclusion here. We also watched a lecture in which a professor analyzes the meaning of the story. If you are interested, you can view a complete short film of the story on You Tube below.
Part 1
Part 2

For homework over the weekend, I am requiring you to compose ten vocabulary sentences using any ten words from these lessons.
Also, you need to compose a ONE EXAMPLE essay using the instructions in part 2 of the lesson. You can find a more complete explanation and an example of this essay here.