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GĔĆđ #1, SęėĆęĊČĞ #1 SĚĒĒĆėĞ WėĎęĎēČ
Department: English
Course: ELA 10
Writing: 1F
Students had to write a radio interview containing a summary between two characters.
General Assignment Instructions:
For your ϐinal assignment on the story “The Wager” (or “The Bet”), you will write a radio interview between the
Banker and an investigative journalist set in the year 1905, twenty years after the Jurist vanished from his place
of conϐinement. Be sure the interview contains a summary of the events in the story and the Banker’s reϐlections
on these events. How have the events from “the wager” changed the Banker’s outlook and morality? What moral
issues were addressed in the story and what are the Banker’s opinions about them now? Has he changed his ide‐
as about life and death and what makes life worthwhile? If so, how? Be sure your interview has
each
character
speaking at least eight times.
Click the image below to review a student example.