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The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
created by: Brian Rappe
Days: One Quarter, to be used throughout the quarter as the book is read.
Topics
· -Setting, what is setting and the specific setting of the book
· -Plot, what is plot?
· -Climax, what is plot?
· -Character description, good, evil symbolic images within characters.
· -What should be included in a presentation or a report.
C Level: 31-50 pt.
-Draw a poster of the climax of the story.
-Complete the worksheets for book report.
-Character sketch, what would you do if you where Jack, Ralph and Piggy.
-To do before you finish chpt. 3 what would you do if you were stranded on an island. Make sure to include the setting of your island.
-Create a vocabulary word bank of 20 words and define them in your own words
-Rewrite this story if it would have happened today, must be written in another language.
B Level 51-80pt
-Find out how to butcher a wild boar and draw a diagram.
-How would you make a shelter to live in if you were stranded? Build a 3d model to explain this?
-Watch the Movie and compare and contrast it to the book.
-Find out what would kill you if you ate on a tropical island. Create a well-balanced meal schedule out of what you can eat.
-Write a four-page report on the book, include; Title, author, setting, plot, critic, and would your teacher like it.
-Give a 2 minute presentation on the book to you teacher, include; Title, author, setting, plot, critic, and would your teacher like it.
-What would you use as a conch in the class and what would be the rules to use it?
A Level 81-100 pts
-Research the author and create presentation or a report about who he is
and what else has he wrote. Include why did he write Lord of the Flies.
-Critical thinking, why did he only write about boys? How would the story be different if it was a group a girls? How would it be different if he used a mix of boys and girls?
C Level rubric:
10pts Draw a poster of the climax of the story
-Use poster paper. 1pts
-Use entire paper. 1pts
-Include at least 3 characters. 2pts
-Use color. 1pts
-Draw one of the climaxes
in the story. 5pts
Show the action of the event.
Or the action that leads up to the event.
25pts Complete the book report wkst
-Answer all the questions. 10pts
-Write more than 4 sentences per answer. 5pts
-Write in complete and correct sentences. 10pts
10pts Character Sketch.
-Write in complete and correct sentences. 5pts
-Include Ralph, Jack and Piggy. 5pts
What would you do if were each character.
10pts What would you do if you were stranded on an island?
Do this before you finish chpt. 3.
-Write 2- 3 paragraphs. 3pts
(7-10 paragraphs)
-Include in the story. 3pts What supplies do you have?
How would you survive?
How would you get off the island?
-Write in complete and correct sentences. 4pts
10pts Vocabulary
-Define 10 words you do not know. 3pts
-Define 10 words you think you know. 3pts
-Pick 5 words from each list and make up
your own definition. 4pts
25pts Story rewrite
-Rewrite the story in a different language 15pts
-Your writing must be a modern account
of what happened on the island. 5pts
-Needs to be 2 pages. 5pts
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Earn 100 points (you may earn up to 25 points extra credit if you wish)
Novel Assignment # 1 25 pts
Characterization
Choose a passage you wish to discuss from the book.
1] What ideas are expressed in the passage, and what do they tell you about the speaker?
2] What emotions, if any, does the speaker express? What does that tell you about him?
3] Does this character belong to a particular character type? Does he embody certain ideas, values, qualities or attitudes that you recognize as characteristics of people you know or know of?
4] What is the leadership status of the character, and how does he announce this through the ways he behaves, speaks and what he speaks about?
5] Is the person witty, insightful, caring, exploitive, cruel, kind?
You will comment upon your chosen character's behaviors while on the island and how you feel he may fare when and if the boys are ever back in civilization. Every opinion must be supported with direct evidence from the story / or by your deductions made from their testimony/ or by your research / or your experience living in the world.
Novel Assignment # 2
Role Playing: 25 pts
Write another chapter to the book - it can be first, last, or anywhere in between - in which the characters have to solve a problem and behave within the bounds of the character they were given (minimum page and half). Then choose one student for the part of each of the above characters, and have the students act the problem out in their roles [true to their characters] to find out how the problem might get solved. The size of your group may be determined by the number of parts in the chapter, but each group member must add to the writing of the chapter and be involved in the presentation.
Novel Assignment # 3 15 pts
Lost Identity:
Landing on the beach after the plane [in which they were saved from an atomic war] crashed and sank, leaving no adults alive - the boys were fairly clear about who they were and what they were about. One could say that at that moment in time they were still highly civilized - they were all well socialized - and reasonably certain about who they were and what they were about - and acquainted with the rules of their civilization at home. However, before long, as a result of their isolation from all they knew - their separation from all they were familiar with - and their rapidly devolving values and goals, anomie began to slip aboard. Some of the boys took for themselves great power - others grew powerless – all lost somewhere along the way, all of the comfortable well-fitting civilized identities with which they had arrived .They began to regress to more primitive states and they adopted identities that matched their current positions on the newly evolving hierarchy.
Power - used and abused
Please use examples from the text to define the following kinds of power seen in the book:
i ] Democratic power
ii] Authoritarian power
iii] Spiritual power
iv] Brute force, the most primitive/savage use of power
The Marriage of Style and Setting
Novel Assignment # 4 - 5 pts
Setting
To make a setting come alive in words, an author must possess significant descriptive talents.
The setting of Lord of the Flies is integral to the story and its meanings. Please explain why that is. Write a complete paragraph.
Novel Assignment # 5 - 15 pts
Style and Setting:
1. Choose a passage or passages from the book that describe the setting. Create a table with the following headings and list some of his best descriptive words and phrases under the appropriate heading:
1. Sounds 2. Sights 3. Smells 4. Tastes 5. Feelings [touch]
Novel Assignment # 6 - 15 pts
Working with a partner, produce a relief map of the island using only the information given in the novel itself.
Novel Assignment # 7 – 10 pts
Find someone else who created a relief map and compare the maps. How similar are they? In what ways are they different? How can you account for the differences? Write a paragraph discussing your response.
Novel Assignment # 8 -- 10 pts
Please comment upon the idea that reading a book is a more creative pursuit than watching a movie. Do you think a movie could do justice to this story? Why or why not? How would it change? Write a paragraph discussing your response.
Novel Assignment #9 – 25 pts
Golding’s Style
Word choice:
How much, how effectively, or what kinds of "Plain English" or figurative language are found in any book, depends upon the writer and his personal style.
Working alone or with a partner, look at any chapter in Lord of the Flies; read it aloud. Comment upon the use of figurative language in Golding’s style. Then read “A Child's Christmas in Wales,” by Dylan Thomas. Quote and example from each and contrast the ways in which the two writers use figurative devices, such as:
i] Similes ii] Metaphors iii] Idiom iv] Analogies v] Personification
Novel Assignment #10 – 10 pts
Read the lyrics to the song “Imagine” by John Lennon. Write a paragraph discussing what you think society would be like if it were set up by the rules described in the song.
Novel Assignment #11 – 5 pts
In your own words, write a paragraph describing what is meant by anomie and give an example of what school would be like if anomie existed within its walls.
Novel Assignment #12 – 5 pts
Who exactly is “the Lord of the Flies” and what is the general message of the lyrics of the song by Elton John? Write a paragraph explaining your answer.
Imagine by John Lennon
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Lord of the Flies by Elton John
Well he looks through the wreckage
But he can't find a photo of you
Then he ties me in knots
With riddles he chooses to use
And he says how come you two
Are the only ones here who survived
Oh I thought it was me
Who was destined to be
The lord of the flies
And who rules when fools leave, I do
Says the lord of the flies
Leave me your world, give me your earth
Swallow your foolish pride
And don't think I'm wrong, it's here I belong
It's mine, I'm the lord of the flies
Lord of the flies
Lord of the flies
Then take all the money you want
It's the last thing we used for fuel
Here in the late great capital
We burned a bonfire for you
He knows we burned the harvest
And saw through his disguise
He's no phantom at all
He's the only thing left
The lord of the flies
A Child's Christmas in Wales
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.
It was on the afternoon of the Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prothero's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling, they would slink and sidle over the white back-garden walls, and the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes. The wise cats never appeared.
We were so still, Eskimo-footed arctic marksmen in the muffling silence of the eternal snows - eternal, ever since Wednesday - that we never heard Mrs. Prothero's first cry from her igloo at the bottom of the garden. Or, if we heard it at all, it was, to us, like the far-off challenge of our enemy and prey, the neighbor's polar cat. But soon the voice grew louder.
"Fire!" cried Mrs. Prothero, and she beat the dinner-gong.
And we ran down the garden, with the snowballs in our arms, toward the house; and smoke, indeed, was pouring out of the dining-room, and the gong was bombilating, and Mrs. Prothero was announcing ruin like a town crier in Pompeii. This was better than all the cats in Wales standing on the wall in a row. We bounded into the house, laden with snowballs, and stopped at the open door of the smoke-filled room.
Something was burning all right; perhaps it was Mr. Prothero, who always slept there after midday dinner with a newspaper over his face. But he was standing in the middle of the room, saying, "A fine Christmas!" and smacking at the smoke with a slipper.
"Call the fire brigade," cried Mrs. Prothero as she beat the gong.
"There won't be there," said Mr. Prothero, "it's Christmas."
There was no fire to be seen, only clouds of smoke and Mr. Prothero standing in the middle of them, waving his slipper as though he were conducting.