th graders Where Library When Friday October 1 st during lunch What discuss the book amp eat a free lunch Charles by Shirley Jackson Charles Insolently Teacher Renounced Charles ID: 716803
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8th Grade Book Club
Who: All 8
th
graders
Where: Library
When: Friday, October 1
st
during lunch
What: discuss the book & eat a free lunch!Slide2
Charles
by Shirley JacksonSlide3
Charles
Insolently Teacher
Renounced
Charles
Raucous
Hit
Incredulously
Behavior
Cynically
Bad words
Laurie Exercises
Kindergarten PTA Meeting
Shocked KickedSlide4
Insolently– (adv.) rude or disrespectfulSlide5
Incredulously (adj.)- unbelievable, doubtfulSlide6
Renounced (v.)-- to give upSlide7
Raucous- (adj.) rowdy, disorderlySlide8
Cynically (adj.) characteristic of a cynic—distrusting other peopleSlide9
*Who is Charles?Slide10
Irony
A difference between what is
expected and what actually happens
.
When Laurie’s mother attends the PTA Meeting, she is expecting to meet Charles’s mother. When the teacher says they don’t have a Charles in kindergarten, this is ironic because she doesn’t expect that her son has been bad.
The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass is richly green. This is ironic because no one would expect something awful to happen on a day like this! This imagery sets the reader up to expect happy events.
Usually winning a lottery would be amazing, but in Shirley Jackson’s story, the person chosen is killed.Slide11
Foreshadowing
A literary technique used by authors to provide
clues/hints
for the reader to predict what might occur later on in the text.
This makes reading more fun and keeps us engaged and interested.
The Lottery-
Tessie arrives late and she is the one to die.
Charles-
Laurie acts insolently toward his father which makes us wonder if it is him that is acting up at school. Slide12
Point-of-View
The perspective from which the story is told.First Person Point of View- A character in the story is telling it from his or her perspective.
Look for
I, we, me, us
Third Person Point of View-
the narrator does not participate in the events of the story, but we learn about how they feel from their descriptions.
Look for
she, he, they.Slide13
What is the Point of View?
Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors, and taxes. They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed.
The day my son Laurie started kindergarten he renounced corduroy overalls with bibs and began wearing blue jeans with a belt; I watched him go off the first morning with the older girl next door…Slide14
Charles & The Lottery
Charles
is
told from the
first-person point of view
of Laurie’s mother. It is through her eyes that the story unfolds; we learn information only as Laurie’s mother learns it. How does the point of view from which “Charles” is told contribute to the surprise ending? How would “Charles” be different if it were told from Laurie’s point of view?
Why did Shirley Jackson write
“The Lottery” in
3
rd
person point
of view? Does the narrator seem
detached? Why or Why not?
Identify several examples of
foreshadowing
from “Charles
” and “The Lottery”.
Why do you suppose Shirley Jackson chose to hide these clues? How does this contribute to the surprise
endings?
Identify examples of
irony
from “Charles
” and “The Lottery”.
Why do you suppose Shirley Jackson included these “surprises” for us? Is this
one
reason
these stories
are
so memorable?