Writing 110: We have been continuing our work on the extended narrative.  Students are working on their storyboards and writing snapshots from their storyboards.   English 112: I collected the satire assignments today.  Remember, it's 10% per each day that the assignment is late.  Students were given a new assignment today on "The Lottery Ticket" (p. 198 Echoes).  I gave a mini-lesson on how to properly incorporate quotations in your responses.  This is the assignment: “The Lottery Ticket” by Anton Chekhov Answer the following questions on looseleaf.  All answers should be paragraph length responses AND incorporate quotations. 1.      Chekhov’s story can be considered as a satire.  What is the story satirizing?  What are two attributes of satire that are evident in the story and how are they used? 2.      Find the place in the story where the narrative switches from past tense to present tense.  Why does the narrator change the tense at that point? 3.      The narrator does not give much insight into the wife’s actual thoughts in this story.  Make an inference, and state what you believe the wife was thinking.  Be sure to support with evidence from the text. 4.      Imagine that at the end of the story, the couple had won the lottery.  What do you predict that would mean for their family? English 10: Today we reviewed plot structure.  Tomorrow we will be reading our first short story - "Charles" by Shirley Jackson.