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Literary Quote of the Day: "They Still Remembered to Use Stones"

The Teaching ELA Podcast

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You’ve all probably heard the statistics on what happens to Lottery winners. A majority of them end up no better or even worse off than before their victory. In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, it’s clear that everyone who wins this town’s lottery ends up worse off than they were before.

How many things do we continue doing just because it’s how they used to be done or they were done that way when we were in school?

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Teaching “The Lottery” Podcast Episode“The Lottery” Blog PostShort Story Catalog at ELACOMMONCORELESSONPLANS.comPoetry Collections at ELACommonCoreLessonPlans.com