The Lottery :The Lottery Dialogue and Quotation Marks


Slide 2:What’s in my head? What is dialogue? Conversation between characters Talking in a story How people communicate in literature In quotation marks “ ”


Slide 3:“Be a good sport, Tessie." Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, "All of us took the same chance.” "Shut up, Tessie," Bill Hutchinson said. "Well, everyone," Mr. Summers said, "that was done pretty fast, and now we've got to be hurrying a little more to get done in time." He consulted his next list. "Bill," he said, "you draw for the Hutchinson family. You got any other households in the Hutchinsons?" "There's Don and Eva," Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. "Make them take their chance!" "Daughters draw with their husbands' families, Tessie," Mr. Summers said gently. "You know that as well as anyone else." "It wasn't fair," Tessie said. "I guess not, Joe." Bill Hutchinson said regretfully. "My daughter draws with her husband's family; that's only fair. And I've got no other family except the kids." "Then, as far as drawing for families is concerned, it's you," Mr. Summers said in explanation, "and as far as drawing for households is concerned, that's you, too. Right?" "Right," Bill Hutchinson said. "How many kids, Bill?" Mr. Summers asked formally. "Three," Bill Hutchinson said.


Identify Dialogue :Identify Dialogue Looking at the sample passage from “The Lottery” how do you know dialogue is being used? Quotation marks are being used! “Be a good sport, Tessie.” Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, “All of us took the same chance.”


Slide 5:Which words are used to tell you who is talking? "There's Don and Eva," Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. "Make them take their chance!" "Daughters draw with their husbands' families, Tessie," Mr. Summers said gently. "You know that as well as anyone else." “yelled” and “said” Can anybody tell me the fancy literary word for “said”? Attribution


What other attributions could you use in the writing of dialogue other than “said”? :What other attributions could you use in the writing of dialogue other than “said”? Answered Asked Questioned Replied Laughed Snickered Hollered Yelled Whispered Spoke Told


How else do you know when the speaker switches to a new/different speaker? :How else do you know when the speaker switches to a new/different speaker? "There's Don and Eva," Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. "Make them take their chance!" "Daughters draw with their husbands' families, Tessie," Mr. Summers said gently. "You know that as well as anyone else." "It wasn't fair," Tessie said. "I guess not, Joe." Bill Hutchinson said regretfully. The line in which the new speaker is introduced is indented. What else do you notice? Each of those indented lines (also called Direct Quotes) begin with a ________________. CAPITAL LETTER!


One more point to make… :One more point to make… Which of the following sets of lines are punctuated correctly? SET A "It wasn't fair," Tessie said. "I guess not, Joe." Bill Hutchinson said regretfully. OR SET B “It wasn’t fair”, Tessie said. “I guess not, Joe” Bill Hutchinson said regretfully.


SET A contains the pair of correctly punctuated sentences. :SET A contains the pair of correctly punctuated sentences. "It wasn't fair," Tessie said. "I guess not, Joe." Bill Hutchinson said regretfully. Remember that punctuation always goes inside quotation marks.


Dialogue Rules! :Dialogue Rules! Indent every time a new person speaks. Put quotation marks around the things people say aloud. Capitalize the first word of a direct quote. Put end punctuation inside the quotation marks.


Now, try your hand at constructing dialogue correctly and effectively. :Now, try your hand at constructing dialogue correctly and effectively. Get busy on your paper! Your new alternate ending is due at the beginning of class tomorrow. Rubric for writing alternate ending Rewrite the ending of “The Lottery.” Pretend that the story stopped at: “All right, folks.” Mr. Summers said. “Let’s finish quickly.” NOW TAKE IT FROM THERE! Remember that irony (when the unexpected happens) is a big part of the story and we know by foreshadowing that whoever wins this particular lottery doesn’t necessarily receive something nice!