The document provides teaching materials for analyzing the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. It includes objectives, key points about characterization, and exercises for students to analyze how the character Mary is characterized at the beginning and end of the story based on her thoughts, actions, dialogue and appearance. Students are asked to fill out graphic organizers to describe their initial and final characterization of Mary after close reading sections of the text.

1. “ Lamb to the Slaughter” Characterization throughout a text – Can characters change?

4. S-T-E-A-L Graphic Organizers S-T-E-A-L What are we searching for in the text? What does this say about the characterization? Looks Acts Says Thinks

7. S-T-E-A-L Characterize Mary Directions: Use the underline segments of the text to help you fill-in the graphic organizer below characterizing Mary

8. S-T-E-A-L : Characterize Mary Partner Reading (12-32): Take turns reading aloud with your partner, alternating turns between each paragraph. As you read both of you should be underlining words or actions that help you characterize Mary.

12. Objective: Analyze a Mary’s progression throughout the text. What caused Mary to change and what new character traits did she develop?