Per 4 LotF

Essential Questions
1. How do we define human nature?
2. How do the challenges in our life influence and define our character?
3. How do we understand what our own moral code is?
4. How does the novel serve as an allegory for our times?
5. How does our understanding of literary devices inform our understanding of a text’s theme and overall effectiveness?

READING FOR:

Monday 12/4
Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry Picking”(see handout)

• Reading for words, images, and details
• Grouping and patterns
• Structure

HW:  Read Q2 Books

Tues 12/5
What is a metaphor?

• What did this video add to your understanding about metaphors and how they work?

Read the packet Metaphor_Poems

• In your notebook, choose the metaphor from the first page that you like the most, and then do some writing.  What about that metaphor do you like?  Why does it speak to you?
• Read and annotate the two poems and answer the questions

HW: Read and annotate Fig Lang 2 packet up through the poem “Peace”

• Annotate poems
• Annotate text for main ideas about symbol and allegory
  • Be able to define & identify symbol
  • Be able to define & identify allegory

Wed 12/6
Reviewing Poems

• Metaphor
• Allegory

HW: Survival Quiz

Thurs 12/7
Lord of the Flies Introduction

Review of Survival Quiz and Journal Responses

Starting chapter 1 together and sticky notes

Chapter 1 Assignment
As you read, mark important quotes with a sticky note the following:

• 3 quotes about Ralph that provide insight into what type of person he is in the chapter 1 (choose one from the beginning, middle, and end of the chapter)
• 3 quotes about Jack that provide insight into what type of person he is in the chapter 1
• 2 quotes about the imagery of the island
• 2 quotes about Piggy
• 2 quotes about Simon
• 1 quote about the conch
• 1 quote about anything “dark”

HW:  Finish reading and identifying quotes Chapter 1

Fri 12/8
QW: How do you know right from wrong?

Using quotes to annotate

• With your group, discuss the quotes you chose for your assigned focus
• Each person is responsible for a notecard
  • Write the quote with page #
  • Circle, underline, highlight important word choice
  • Annotate first for denotative meaning
  • Annotate then for connotative meaning

HW:  Reading and identifying quotes in Ch 2 – Fire on the Mountain

• 3 quotes about Ralph that provide insight into what type of person he is in the chapter 1 (choose one from the beginning, middle, and end of the chapter)
• 3 quotes about Jack that provide insight into what type of person he is in the chapter 1
• 3 quotes about Piggy
• 2 quotes about the imagery of the island
• 1 quotes about Simon
• 1 quote about the conch
• 1 quote about “the beastie”

Mon 12/11
What qualities do you look for in a leader?  What makes a good leader?  What makes a great leader?

Using  your response to the above, which characters seem to possess these characteristics? Use quotes to support your response.

HW:  reading and annotating chapter 3 and bring in Q2 books

• 3 quotes about Ralph that provide insight into what type of person he is in the chapter 1 (choose one from the beginning, middle, and end of the chapter)
• 3 quotes about Jack that provide insight into what type of person he is in the chapter 1
• 3 quotes about Simon
• 2 quotes about Piggy
• 1 quotes about the imagery of the island
• 1 quote about “the beastie”

Tues 12/12
Drop

Wed 12/13
Reading Q2 Books

Initial Understanding of the Characters & Symbol of the Conch

• Who are they in the beginning?
• Draw your assigned character using details from the book
• Write out a statement of who your character is now at the beginning of the story
• Find a quote from each of the first three chapters that supports this idea
  • Ralph
  • Jack
  • Piggy
  • Simon
  • the Conch

HW: Reading and annotating Chapter 4 “Painted Faces and Long Hair”

As you read, mark important quotes with a sticky note the following:

• 2 quotes about Ralph
• 2 quotes about Jack
• 2 quotes about Roger
• 2 quotes about Piggy
• 2 quotes about Simon
• 2 quote about “the beastie” / darkness

Thurs 12/14

Finishing Annotations for chapters 1-3

HW:  Reading Chapter 5 “Beast from the Water” and reading journal

Fri 12/15
Development of the boys  and reviewing chapters 4 & 5

HW:  chapter 6 – Identifying the important quotes

What should be completed for Monday’s class

• Annotations for chapters 1-3
• Annotations for chapters 4-5
• Reading and identification of quotes for chapter 6

Mon 12/18
Reading the excerpt on symbolism, reading Sparknotes, and answering the question:

from Sparknotes.com

Ralph and Piggy discover the conch shell on the beach at the start of the novel and use it to summon the boys together after the crash separates them. Used in this capacity, the conch shell becomes a powerful symbol of civilization and order in the novel. The shell effectively governs the boys’ meetings, for the boy who holds the shell holds the right to speak. In this regard, the shell is more than a symbol—it is an actual vessel of political legitimacy and democratic power. As the island civilization erodes and the boys descend into savagery, the conch shell loses its power and influence among them.

• What enhanced understanding have that SparkNotes lacks in its explanation of the conch as a symbol?

Symbolic Weight of the Conch

• What doesn’t Sparknotes fully understand about the symbol of the conch?  How does the symbol of the conch shift when in hands of the different boys?  What theme does this relate to?  
• Use evidence from the text to support your response

HW:  Reading and annotating Chapter 7 – Shadows and Tall Trees

Tues 12/19
Reading journal Chapter 8 “Gift for the Darkness”

HW:  Finish reading and annotating Chapter 8 & Bring Q2 books for tomorrow’s class

Wed 12/20
Reading Q2 Reading Books

HW: read and annotate Ch 9

Thurs 12/21
Annotating the middle chapters 6-9

HW:  Bring Q2 Books

Fri 12/22
Reading Q2 Books
Reading and receiving the one-pager assignment for Q2 Books

Tues 1/2

Finishing annotations for chapters 6-9

Watch the Milgram Experiment video and use the following question to guide your notes:

• What is the experiment?  Describe.
• How does this experiment relate to what you’ve read in Lord of the Flies so far?  What situations seems to suggest that the boys are capable of the kind of torture that the “teachers” in the experiment inflict?  Use evidence from the text to support your response.

In class reading and annotating of LotF Chapter 10

HW:  Finish reading Chapter 10 and annotations from 6-9

Wed 1/5
Reviewing and discussing Chapter 10

• What changes have you seen in Ralph, Jack, and Piggy since they first landed on the island?
  • What quote from chapter 10 best supports this change?
• What do these changes suggest about human nature?

HW: Reading and annotating Chapter 11

Mon 1/8
Reading and annotating Ch 12

• Annotations for chapter 11&12 on google classroom

HW:  Preparing for the final discussion

Tues 1/9
Drop Final Discussion

HW:  Brainstorming for the midterm Handout

Wed 1/10
Maker Space

Thurs 1/11
Drop

Fri 1/13
Maker Space

1/17
Exam day-presentation of Q2 Creative Reading Responses & Reflection

Wed 1/24
Critical Approaches to the Text (see assignment on google classroom)

• Freud
• Hobbes
• Steven Pinker_ Why Violence Is Vanishing – WSJ
• Christian_Lens

Reading and annotating the texts for main ideas

HW: Start to collaborate on presentation

Thurs 1/25
Work on presentations

Friday 1/26
Presentations on Critical Approaches

Mon 1/29
cont. Presentations

Freewrites and crafting the thesis

HW: Submit thesis on classroom

Tues 1/30
Drop

Wed 1/31
Reviewing thesis statements – revising if necessary

Crafting the topic sentences

Outlining the essay – Body 1

Thurs 2/1
Revising TS – if necessary

Outlining Bodies 2 & 3

Fri 2/2
Drafting Intro and body 1

• Submitting completed packet and drafted Intro and body 1 on Monday

HW:  Drafting and submitting completed packet and drafted Intro and body 1 on Monday

Mon 2/5
*Intro, body 1 draft and fully completed outlining packet due!