“The Lottery” RACE Activity Use the RACE strategy to answer the following question. Responses should be approximately 4 sentences: 1 to restate and answer, 1 to cite evidence from the text, and 2 to thoroughly explain HOW your evidence supports or connect back to your answer in sentence 1.

Question: What does the story suggest to you about authority and obedience to authority? Who--or what--holds authority in the village? Why do some people continue with the annual killing, despite the fact that “some places have already quit lotteries”?

(40 points btw)

Prewriting: this stage of the writing process involve gathering and selecting ideas; teachers can students in several ways: creating lists, researching, brainstorming,reading to discover more about the author's style, talking, collecting memorabilia or clips from other texts, and free-writingdrafting: in this stage, students begin writing, connecting, and developing ideasrevising: this is the stage of writing that involves rewriting or "re-seeing; " emphasis is place on examining sentence structure, word choice, voice, and organization of the pieceediting: this stage involves checking for style and conventions--spelling, grammar, usage, and punctuationpublishing: the "going public" stage of writingevaluating: in this stage, the writer looks back at his/her work and self-evaluates, and the audience evaluates the effectiveness of the writingwriting activities : personal writing, workplace writing, subject writing, creative writing, persuasive writing, and scholarly writingpeer review: acting a referee; evaluating a colleague's work professionally

It would be a lot easier if you did this yourself, imagine yourself as a reporter. reporters are very vigilant, wordy, smart people that don't take no for an answer, just simply put together a little story about yourself that would include places you've reported, things you've witnessed, people you've talked to and about to support your evidence, but it's all hypothetical so it's really easy to make it all up