“The Lottery” Essay
Prompt: Compare the Milgram Obedience Experiment to Shirley Jackson’s short
story "The Lottery."
Note cards: A way to organize quotations, paraphrases, and summary
statements from a text to use as evidence in writing.
This is the information that will go on your note cards:
Topic
Topic= Obedience
(on every note card)
Source #
“The Lottery” = Source #1
“The Milgram Obedience Exp.”= Source #2
1 Quotation (sentence copied word for word from a text)
OR
1 paraphrased statement (putting a sentence or two from a
text into your own words)
OR
1 summary statement (writing the main idea of a chunk of text
in a sentence)
Paragraph # (from the text)
Paragraph #= “The Lottery” is already
numbered. You need to number each
paragraph in “The Milgram Exp.”
Directions for the note cards: Make sure that you have read the above information
first!
1. Draw six note card sized rectangles on a sheet of loose leaf paper.
2. In the upper left corner of each, write “Obedience” because that is your
topic.
3. Three of the note cards should contain evidence from “The Lottery” that
strongly relates to your topic of obedience. One of these must be a quotation.
The source number will be #1. In the bottom left corner, write the number of
the paragraph in which you found the information.
4. The other three note cards should contain evidence from “The Milgram
Obedience Experiment” that strongly relates to your topic of obedience. One
of these must be a quotation. The source number will be #2. In the bottom left
corner, write the number of the paragraph in which you found the information.