LOTF HW

Students are to finish reading chapter 2 and complete the worksheet for homework. It will be collected at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 2-20pts


1. (32-33) What is the purpose of the army? Why does Jack slam his knife into a trunk?




2. (35-36) What does Ralph predict their time on the island will be like? What is the beastie? How does it make them feel? (textual support)




3. (37) Explain why the boys believe they will be rescued. Is this rational?




4. (38) What does Piggy’s statement “like kids” say about how he views himself on the island?




5. (40) What is significant about the treatment of Piggy’s glasses on this page?




6. (42) How does Jack treat Piggy? What is Piggy’s role in starting the fire? What is the significance of the repetition of “I got the conch”?




7. (45) What was Piggy’s plan for survival on the island? Is he acting like a good leader? Why?




8. (46) What does Piggy point out that they are responsible for? Why doesn’t Jack like Piggy?

Happy Thanksgiving

Only period 1 met today. We finished chapter 2.

Have a great holiday.

Lotf and Lost at Sea

Students competed to see who has the best survival instincts. After seeing the results, only a few students have a right to criticize the children in Lord of the Flies. Click here to try the game out.

We then began reading chapter 2 and responding to the following questions:

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 2-20pts


1. (32-33) What is the purpose of the army? Why does Jack slam his knife into a trunk?




2. (35-36) What does Ralph predict their time on the island will be like? What is the beastie? How does it make them feel? (textual support)




3. (37) Explain why the boys believe they will be rescued. Is this rational?




4. (38) What does Piggy’s statement “like kids” say about how he views himself on the island?




5. (40) What is significant about the treatment of Piggy’s glasses on this page?




6. (42) How does Jack treat Piggy? What is Piggy’s role in starting the fire? What is the significance of the repetition of “I got the conch”?




7. (45) What was Piggy’s plan for survival on the island? Is he acting like a good leader? Why?




8. (46) What does Piggy point out that they are responsible for? Why doesn’t Jack like Piggy?

Today we covered through #11 on the handout. We will finish the chapter tomorrow in class.

We covered through number 7 on the worksheet today.

LOTF

Students began working on the following assignment in class:

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 1-20pts

1. (8) What might the boys be thinking considering the prospect of “No Grownups!” -note the exclamation point. Explain

2. (9) What are Piggy’s (fat boy) weaknesses? Strengths?

3. (11) What is most important to Piggy? Why?

4. (13) What was Ralph’s father? Why is this significant?

5. (13/14) Comment on the fact that they swim. What is their attitude or demeanor? Should it be this way? Should this be what they are doing? Explain.

6. (16) What is the conch for? What does it symbolize?

7. (17) What does it say about the characters that they derive enjoyment from the fart noises made with the shell?

8. (19) What does the laughter signify?

9. (21) Why does Ralph betray Piggy? Is it a betrayal?

10. (22) Why does Jack think he should be chief?

11. (24/25) What is the significance of each reference to Piggy’s glasses on these pages?

12. (31) What does Jack fail to do? Why? What is so important about “next time”?


We covered the first 3 questions, and will continue tomorrow.

Also-Permission slips are due tomorrow

LOTF

Today we began presenting the civilizations that the students designed. There were many disagreements. (foreshadowing for the novel)

Intro project

Students are currently working on an introductory assignment for Lord of the Flies. Presentations are to begin on Friday.


Lord of the Flies
Introductory group assignment

Due to circumstances beyond your control, the civilized world as we know it has come to an end. You are a few of the survivors, which equal 0.1% of the current population of Earth. You must figure out how to survive. Food stores are running out and you have no electrical power. How will you rebuild?

Your group must come up with rules for running the show. You are in charge. You must decide all of the following:
• Laws
• Ethics
• Punishments
• Hierarchy
• Define acceptable behavior
• Proper social norms
• Rituals
• Names for everything
• Acquisition of basic survival needs
• Defense

You must then develop a presentation clearly depicting your society. Your goal is not necessarily to create the ideal society for everyone, but the society you would like.

You will also give a printout of your rules to another group. When you receive another group’s rules you must examine it for weaknesses. When each group has completed their presentation, you will have an opportunity to expose the weaknesses through questions and hypothetical scenarios. The more weaknesses you expose, the more points you will earn.

Lord of the Flies

Today students began taking notes on our next novel-Lord of the Flies.

Also, field trip permission slips were passed out for Medieval Times.