BLACK DAY: Early Release!

COLLEGE PREP 12

Per Ms Wadsworth.....

For the early release day today, play the F.A.M.E 'game' 'Get a Life' to think about post college 'stuff'

ENGLISH 12

1. HEROES
-we read together, in hopes of finishing the story....we will definitely finish it next time!

HONORS
1. Dont forget you have your Literary Device Test next WEDNESDAY
2. "The Lottery"
-finish all notes on story...discussion, etc
-paper assigned....tentative due date is next Friday. Paper assignment is as follows:

In Shirley Jackson's THE LOTTERY, the characters partake in the yearly lottery simply because it is the way things have always been done....it is TRADITION, and as we see in the story, people do not want to change tradition. 

Now move into a more modern context...what is TODAY'S 'lottery?' What is something that goes on in our  culture that is followed, observed, obeyed, or done simply because 'it has always been done this way.... EVEN THOUGH it might be considered unreasonable, unjust, or flat out wrong! What is a 'tradition' we adhere to simply for tradition's sake? Pick one specific thing and describe....be careful NOT to generalize in this paper.