1. World Literature Wednesday, September 28 Thursday, September 29

2. Today’s Targets • Identify and analyze the use of literary devices • Develop an awareness of how author’s craft both entertainment and meaning in their writing

3. “The Craft of Writing” Agenda– Day 5 • No warm-up today • Have character map assignment checked off • Informal discussion of literary devices and author’s choices in “Lamb to the Slaughter” • Complete Socratic Seminar prep questions • Short seminar on the story

4. Informal discussion Questions:“Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl • Why the title? To what does it allude? (allusion) • Consider the words that Dahl uses and their connotation. • What is the symbolic meaning of the lighting reference in lines 120-122? (symbolism) • What might the husband say that Dahl leaves out? • Why would the author choose to leave this out and how might it impact our thoughts/feelings about Mary and her husband? (author’s choice and narration) • How are Mary and her husband characterized? (characterization) • What is the irony at the end of the story?

5. Lamb to the Slaughter allusion Jeremiah 11:19: • But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, {saying,} "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, And let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name be remembered no more.“ Isaiah 53:7: • He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Also used by Geoffrey Chaucer and alluded to in the 1991 film Silence of the Lambs (Source: The Prase Finder, http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/204770.html)

6. For next class period: Socratic Seminar Prep Questions • Who in the story is the lamb-Mary or Patrick? (characterization) • Do you sympathize with Mary Maloney or her husband in the end? Why? Explain your answer with support from the text. • Mary: Was this planned and brutal or an act of temporary passion/insanity? What passages from the text make you think this?

7. Seminar Rules Reminder • You do not need to raise your hand. • Share ideas. • Support your ideas with evidence from the text. • Do not interrupt others. • This is dialogue, not a debate. • If you have already spoken twice, give others a chance to speak before jumping in. (count to 5)

8. Seminar Scoring • 4 – a) highly original thought, clearly expressed and fully explained and supported by clearly relevant citation (quote, paraphrase, or summary from one of our “texts” – text identified); or b) expansion of another’s idea fully explained and supported; or c) highly provocative question that opens a new avenue of discussion. • 3 – a) highly original idea, clearly expressed and fully explainedand relevant to discussion but without support (or support cited not clearly relevant); or b) follow-up contribution building on and expanding original discussion; or c) original question leading to discussion • 2 – a)original thought somewhat relevant to discussion; or b) accurate response to question; or c) citation of questionable relevance • 1 - non-disruptive contribution to discussion (possibly repetitive; possibly of questionable relevance) Your goal should be to contribute at least 2 times in the course of the seminar.