Short Story Lesson

I recently finished up a small unit that was way more fun than I anticipated. As a class we popcorn read “Lamb To The Slaughter,” a short story by Roald Dahl about a loving wife who kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb. After we finished it, as a review for the incidental vocab that we learned in the story, groups of 6 had to put on small skits using 7 vocab words with the prompt: SOMEONE IS MURDERED! How? Why? By whom? For what motive?

It was pretty macabre but the kids had a lot of fun. Stories ranged from typical lovers’ spats to time traveling Buddhist nun impersonators – the students killed off their classmates in really creative and fun ways.