1. I would call this story Lottery because the whole story is just about a lottery.
2. I was not sure what was going to happen but I knew it was something bad. What led me to think this was the tension and nervousness within the whole crowd and the way Tessie kept saying it was so unfair. Throughout the story, the crowd's mood sways. one moment they are all laughing and having fun, the next they are serious and nervous. This warned me that something bad was going to happen.
3. I felt very frustrated and anxious but I calmed down after a while.
4. I felt anxious but nervous to know what was in the folded paper. I was nervous because I had a black dot on my paper. I thought the end of the story would be in it but I also thought there would be something else that we would not like. I did follow the instructions because once I found out what the black dot was, I got a lot calmer and wasn’t as anxious to know what other ‘punishments’ were inside.
5. I felt curious at first, but then as the story went on and I began to figure some more things out, I started to feel a little afraid for the people.
6. I felt angry that they would just do that to someone because of a lottery and I felt sad for Tessie because she hadn’t done anything to deserve that.
7. Most of my predictions were correct but I didn’t think the punishment was going to be that bad.
8. If the author had given some more away in the beginning then it would have been easy, but it wouldn’t have created as great a void.
9. To make the reader want to read on and find out what would happen.
10. a) You really had no clue what the story would be about.
b) It made you frustrated and curious to know what will happen.
c) It draws you to think and ponder on what will happen.
d) It makes you even more curious to find out what would happen and also frustrated that I couldn’t find out.
e) It makes you frustrated because you want to know what will happen in the story.
f) The fact that I had a black dot on my paper.
