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.

Dramatic Reading

Students are currently working on the following project:

Macbeth
Audacity Project
30pts

Using Audacity, you and your group must complete a dramatic reading of one of the speeches/scenes from Macbeth. Your grade will be based on how well your reading conveys the tone of the scene. This includes tone of voice and background effects. You must also include appropriate background music. Each member of the group must speak. You have total creative control.

Macbeth essays were collected today. Students who did not turn in a paper will lose 10% for turning it in tomorrow.

Today we read Act V, scenes 1-3.

Act IV

Today we read Act IV, scene 3 in class.

rough draft

Rough drafts need to be completed by the end of the period tomorrow.

Today we covered the conclusion.


Explain why your argument is relevant outside of the work.

Essay

Students continued working on their essays. We will begin the conclusion on Monday.