LESSON 3

Literature as a Means of Valuing Other

THE
LOTTERY

START!
 Lesson Objectives:

In this module, you will learn how culture affects one’s way of
living. After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
● explain how a selection may be influenced by culture, history,
environment or other factors;
●  analyze literature as a means of valuing other people and their
various circumstances in life (EN9LT- IIc-15); and
●  Explore thoughts through story chart as expressed in the story.
Let's start this year with a thankful heart
and start the new year with peace and
faith. Let us release the bitterness and
frustrations of the past year. Let us
move into the next year knowing that
God loves us and wants the best for us.
Let's pray that the new year will be
focused on healing ourselves through
repentance and the renewing of our
minds. We were not meant to do life
alone! We can bring the light of hope
into our own heart, home, and world.
NEXT!
 Pre-Test CREDIT
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Question 1 A. Characterization C. Setting

It is the time and location in which a story B. Conflict D. Plot
takes place.
Question 2 A. Fantasy C. Historical Fiction
This genre uses characters, settings, and plots B. Fiction D. Non-Fiction
that are not real but could resemble the truth.
Question 3 A. Mood C. Setting
It is the underlying meaning or main idea B. Plot D. Theme
of a story.
Question 4
It is the angle from which the story is A. Author’s view C. Character view
told. B. Camera view D. Point of view
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Question 5 A. Antagonist C. Instigator
He/ She is the main character in the story. B. Antagonizer D. Protagonist

Question 6 A. Character C. Conflict

It is the opposition of forces which ties one B. Climax D. Setting
incident to another and makes the plot move.
Question 7 A. Climax C. Rising Action
It is the most exciting part of the story. B. Exposition D. Setting

Question 8
This is a person or an animal which takes A. Character C. Narrator
part in the action of a story. B. Plot D. Setting
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CREDIT
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Question 9 A. Antagonist C. Instigator
He/ She is the main character in the story. B. Antagonizer D. Protagonist

Question 10 A. Character C. Conflict

It is the opposition of forces which ties one B. Climax D. Setting
incident to another and makes the plot move.

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CREDIT
Let us have a review of the lesson about the poem, Dreams Deferred. Looking at the picture,
what message does the poem want to convey?
WHAT HAPPENED TO A

1. DREAMS DEFFERRED?
Does it dry up like a
HARDWOR
K

PLANS
raisin in the sun?
CHOICES

TRANSIENC
E

AFRICAN &
AMERICAN
DREAM

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 CULTURE &
Culture Influencing Literature LITERATURE

Literature is a big part of all cultures. Different

countries study books that shape their nations. PHILIPPINE
LIT
As people read, they understand what made AFRO-ASIAN
their home the way it is. Literature can inform LITERATURE

people; it can share history and it becomes the ENGLISH-

AMERICAN LIT

history of a certain place or the world. Many WORLD

writers create literary pieces that tell so much LITERATUR
E
about their culture and traditions. One of them is PROSE &
POETRY
Shirley Jackson.
 THE AUTHOR: Shirley Jackson BIOGRAPH
Y

December 14, 1916 to August 8, 1965 LIFE

EDUCATIO
She is an American writer. N
She was popular during her
ACHIEVEMENT
life, and her work has S
received increased attention
from literary critics in recent WORKS
years. She is best known for
the short story "The Lottery" LOTTER
(1948), which reveals a Y
secret, sinister underside to
small American village.
Activity 1: Unlikely Raffle EMOJIS
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, draw the emoticon that would best
describe your reaction for each given situation. Then, give a brief
explanation about your own understanding of each concept.

Fortune Intention Concept Entertainment Death

1. You won 100 million pesos in a lottery. (FORTUNE)

2. You would like to go out since GCQ has been lifted, but your
parents forbade you to leave the house. (INTENTION)
3. You heard about people not wanting to follow the order or law in
your community. (CONCEPT)
4. You won a ticket to a K-Pop concert.(ENTERTAINMENT)
5. You have seen the murdered body of your neighbor. (DEATH)
Activity 2: Writing Clinic Writing
Prompt
Directions: Write short paragraphs answering the question, “What would
you do if you won the lottery?”. Write it in an intermediate sheet of paper.

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Credits
Literature is Worth Reading a
Thousand Times

ACTIVITY 3:
READING
 Watch the short video of
the story
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQoMCaUz5Y

AUDIO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpl3nFL7-
yQ&list=PLHu4fHVzMhijGC5VyGQ485ur9KySLkSo_
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

The villagers of a small town gather together in Paragraph 1

the square on June 27, a beautiful day, for the town

Paragraph 2
lottery. In other towns, the lottery takes longer, but
there are only 300 people in this village, so the Paragraph 3

lottery takes only two hours. Village children, who

Paragraph 4
have just finished school for the summer, run
around collecting stones. They put the stones in Paragraph 5

their pockets and make a pile in the square. Men

gather next, followed by the women. Parents call
their children over, and families stand together.
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

Mr. Summers runs the lottery because he has a lot of Paragraph 1

time to do things for the village. He arrives in the square
with the black box, followed by Mr. Graves, the Paragraph 2

postmaster. This black box isn’t the original box used for Paragraph 3
the lottery because the original was lost many years ago,
even before the town elder, Old Man Warner, was born. Paragraph 4

Mr. Summers always suggests that they make a new box

because the current one is shabby, but no one wants to Paragraph 5

fool around with tradition. Mr. Summers did, however,

convince the villagers to replace the traditional wood
chips with slips of paper.
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

Mr. Summers mixes up the slips of paper in Paragraph 1

the box. He and Mr. Graves made the papers the

Paragraph 2
night before and then locked up the box at Mr.
Summers’s coal company. Before the lottery can Paragraph 3

begin, they make a list of all the families and

Paragraph 4
households in the village. Mr. Summers is sworn
in. Some people remember that in the past there Paragraph 5

used to be a song and salute, but these have been

lost.
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

Paragraph 1
Tessie Hutchinson joins the crowd, flustered because she
had forgotten that today was the day of the lottery. She joins Paragraph 2
her husband and children at the front of the crowd, and people
joke about her late arrival. Mr. Summers asks whether anyone Paragraph 3

is absent, and the crowd responds that Dunbar isn’t there. Mr.
Paragraph 4
Summers asks who will draw for Dunbar, and Mrs. Dunbar
says she will because she doesn’t have a son who’s old enough
Paragraph 5
to do it for her. Mr. Summers asks whether the Watson boy
will draw, and he answers that he will. Mr. Summers then asks
to make sure that Old Man Warner is there too.
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

Mr. Summers reminds everyone about the lottery’s rules: Paragraph 1

he’ll read names, and the family heads come up and draw a
slip of paper. No one should look at the paper until everyone Paragraph 2
has drawn. He calls all the names, greeting each person as they
come up to draw a paper. Mr. Adams tells Old Man Warner Paragraph 3

that people in the north village might stop the lottery, and Old
Paragraph 4
Man Warner ridicules young people. He says that giving up
the lottery could lead to a return to living in caves. Mrs.
Paragraph 5
Adams says the lottery has already been given up in other
villages, and Old Man Warner says that’s “nothing but
trouble.”
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

Mr. Summers finishes calling names, and Paragraph 6

everyone opens his or her papers. Word quickly gets Paragraph 7

around that Bill Hutchinson has “got it.” Tessie argues
that it wasn’t fair because Bill didn’t have enough Paragraph 8

time to select a paper. Mr. Summers asks whether Paragraph 9

there are any other households in the Hutchinson
family, and Bill says no, because his married daughter Paragraph 10

draws with her husband’s family. Mr. Summers asks

how many kids Bill has, and he answers that he has
three. Tessie protests again that the lottery wasn’t fair.
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

Mr. Graves dumps the papers out of the Paragraph 6

box onto the ground and then puts five
papers in for the Hutchinsons. As Mr. Paragraph 7

Summers calls their names, each member of Paragraph 8

the family comes up and draws a paper. Paragraph 9

When they open their slips, they find that

Paragraph 10
Tessie has drawn the paper with the black
dot on it. Mr. Summers instructs everyone to
hurry up.
Reading Selection: THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson
The
Lottery

Paragraph 6

The villagers grab stones and run Paragraph 7

toward Tessie, who stands in a clearing in

Paragraph 8
the middle of the crowd. Tessie says it’s not
fair and is hit in the head with a stone.
Everyone begins throwing stones at her. THE
END
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Tradition
● “ Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”
(528-529).
⮚ The stoning was a sacrifice made for good crops
⮚ Sacrifice goes back to ancient times (Aztecs, Incas, Mayans)
■ Blood is vital to human life, a life-giving source
⮚ Stoning goes back to Biblical times
Tradition
● The villagers get rid of parts of the tradition they feel
are pointless
○ The chant & the salute
○ They keep the savage ritual of sacrifice
● The author is pointing out how resistant people are to
change (esp. the older generation – Old Man Warner)
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Activity 4: Comprehension Questions Table of
Contents
Answer the questions carefully.

QUESTION
What is the population of the 11
1
village?
QUESTION 2
What took place in the village in
2
the morning of June 27?
QUESTION
How do the people in the village 3
3 consider the lottery?
QUESTION 4
4 Why do they have this activity?
QUESTION 5

5 Who led the activity?

Activity 4: Comprehension Questions Table of
Contents
Answer the questions carefully.

QUESTION
What is the purpose of the old 6
6
black wooden box?
QUESTION 7
What important preparation is made
7
a night before the lottery?
QUESTION
8
8 Who got the slip with a black spot?
QUESTION 9
Who got the marked slip among the members of the
9 Hutchinson family? What did the villagers do to her?
QUESTION
Is the lottery a collective act of murder? Is 10
10
it morally justified?
Activity 5: Analysis of Story Elements Elements of
Short Story
STORY CHART
CHARACTER

SETTING

CONFLICT

POINT OF
VIEW

THEME

SYMBOLIS
M

PLOT
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 Conformity, tradition,
and habit have rendered
the villagers unaware of
their own inhumane
evil.
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3.