The Haunting of Hill House Lesson Plan

Shirley Jackson was born in 1916 and spent her childhood in California. She began writing when she was a teenager, and in the 1930s, she began a practice of writing at least a thousand words a day. When she was at Syracuse University, her first short story “Janice” was published. In 1944, her short story “Come Dance With Me in Ireland” was chosen for Best American Short Stories. In 1948, The New Yorker, a prestigious literary magazine, published her iconic short story “The Lottery.” “The Lottery” would become a part of middle and high school curriculum across the country, lauded for its disturbing and sharp cultural commentary. In 1951, Jackson began writing Gothic novels. The first one...