Discussed protection, taboo, and the loss of innocence using the following questions:

• What do you parents and guardians try to protect you from?
• What do you protect your friends from?
• What do you protect your self from?
• What did Piggy and Ralph protect (even if they didn’t know it at the time).
• Why don’t Jack and his hunters take the conch when they attack Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric (p. 168)?
• Should children be protected from witnessing bad or evil actions? What happens when children realize that people do bad things?
• What is the impact of experience on children and their process of maturation?

Came up with 6 word stories to summarize Lord of the Flies so far.

Lord of the Flies – In class assessment #3 (chapters 8, 9 and 10)
Open book. Please write answers (legibly) on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to respond to each question with a topic sentence and supporting details from the book to fully develop your answer. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. Only supported or unsupported.

1. Given what we know so far, why is this book called the Lord of the Flies?

2. What do you truly think the boys are most scared of on the island? What role do you think fear plays into Simon’s death?

3. The meaning of symbols can change over the course of a text. Previously, we thought that fire symbolized rescue, hope, or civilization. What do you think it means that Jack and his tribe steal fire and then Piggy's glasses from Piggy and Ralph in chapter 10?

EC: 4. Chapter 10 finally gives us names of towns Ralph has visited in England, stating on page 164, "Dartmoor was wild... but the attraction of wildness was gone." And later Ralph thinks. "What could be safer than the bus station with its lamps and wheels." What is potentially ironic about this statement?

SSR for 25 minutes

Discussed the different sources of irony and how they play out in LotF so far.

Verbal Irony: 

• Saying something when you mean something completely different. Sarcasm is a form of this.

Situational Irony: 

• When a reader or character expects one thing to happen, but something entirely different happens.  Writers often use this device to make their stories interesting or humorous.

Dramatic Irony:

• A situation in a narrative in which the reader has knowledge of present or future circumstances of which the characters are ignorant.

CHAPTER 9: Oh, poor Simon
Situational Irony:
◦Wow, these kids are really getting out of hand about the beast. Oh good, Simon’s here! Let’s listen to what he has to say! Oh God! Oh. We killed him… damn.

Dramatic Irony:
◦We know Simon is the only one who knows what the “beast” really is, both in the parachuter and the Lord of the Flies.

Today we responded to questions brought up in the chapter 8 assignment from Friday. The sticky note questions were turned in after the class discussion. This is a difficult chapter. Come to Mr. Restad with questions. 

Then, we held a discussion and in class write about whether humans are inherently good or evil.

Assignment:
As you read chapter 8, take three sticky notes and place them in your book at passages that most confuse or create questions for you. Trust me, if you don’t have any points of confusion during this chapter you should be teaching the class. It could be as large as a scene, or as small as a weird sentence.

To come up with the three most confusing/question raising parts, this may mean that after placing three sticky notes, you may need to replace a sticky note that you’ve previously placed. When you have them all placed write the page number on that sticky note.

After placing the three sticky notes go back through the chapter to see how many you can sort out and write the possible explanations on the sticky notes. Poll, discuss, decide, or research with friends and try to write an explanation of what’s going on on each sticky note.

Question answering strategies:

• Use resource tools (dictionary, the internet)
• Use the people around you (group discussions)
• Break it down into smaller elements to try and digest
• Use context clues to try and figure
• Use the close reading techniques we practiced with the inference of Ralph on the beach.
• Move on… sometimes books intestinally raise questions to be answered later on. 

REPOST: Here is an audiobook version for you should you choose to use it. 
Chapter 01: The Sound of the Shell - 00:12
Chapter 02: Fire on the Mountain - 53:15
Chapter 03: Huts on the Beach - 1:25:23
Chapter 04: Painted Faces and Long Hair - 1:46:19
Chapter 05: Beast from Water - 2:27:10
Chapter 06: Beast from Air - 3:06:57
Chapter 07: Shadows and Tall Trees - 3:35:33
Chapter 08: Gift for the Darkness - 4:07:09
Chapter 09: A View to a Death - 4:51:54
Chapter 10: The Shell and the Glasses - 5:16:16
Chapter 11: Castle Rock - 5:44:00
Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters - 6:13:16

Discussed Reading Frame (attached) for chapter 7.

Discussed looking at events as symbols, instead of just objects as symbols:
Event that suggest abandonment of hope for rescue -
Page #: 111
 Scene description:
  
Civil Order vs. Savagery -
Page #: 112 - 113
 Scene description:
  
Violence and Danger of Group Mentality -
Page #: 114
 Scene description:
  
Power of Suggestion -
Page #: 123
 
Scene description:

Lord of the Flies – In class assessment #2
Open book. Please write answers (legibly) on a separate sheet of paper, skip lines, and use at least three sentences to support each answer.

1. At the beginning of the meeting in Chapter 5 (page 79) Ralph thinks: "He was searching his mind for simple words so that even the littluns would understand what the assembly was about. Perhaps later, practiced debaters- like Jack or Piggy - would use their whole art to twist the meeting: but now at the beginning the subject of the debate must be laid clearly."
Use the details presented in Ralph's thought to infer something Ralph is worried about OR what he thinks about Jack or Piggy.

2. In Chapter 6: Beast from the Air, a dead pilot lands in his parachute on the island. Do you think this 'beast' unites the boys or pushes them apart? Why?

3. When Jack took responsibility of the hunt for the beast, how did Ralph react? (p.103) Why do you think he reacted that way?

4. (a) What do the boys do when they enter the small island? What does Ralph urge them to concentrate on instead?

• (b) Do you think Ralph is being too serious? Why?

Discuss Group mentality and it’s affect on leadership
Discuss questions to help guide reading for chapter 6 (below).

• Who do Samneric run to?
• Who goes after the beast?
• Who stays?
• Who leads the hunt?
• Who goes out to 'The Castle Rock?

Answer any questions from chapters 5 or previous

Tomorrow, comprehension assessment over chapters 5 and 6.

SSR

Continued working on Inference assignment from yesterday and reading in LotF.  Must be through page 108 by Tuesday. 

Discussed the following questions and quotes about chapter:

•Why is the fact that the “Beast” now potentially lives in the water significant?

“Unknown indigo of infinite possibility” – p. 88

•What does Simon think of the beast? And, Piggy’s response?

•Ralph’s meeting about the beast and “putting things in order” devolves at the end. Why can’t he blow the conch to bring order back?

•“If only they could send us something grownup?” –p. 94 

Close Reading: means reading to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deeper comprehension
Inference: is the act of drawing conclusions based on what you know to be true.

Assignment:
On page 76 of Lord of the Flies, Golding opens chapter 5 with a section on Ralph heading to a group meeting. Read this WHOLE page… closely… twice and answer the following questions:

1. Think: What do I notice on a first read of this paragraph?
   
2. On a closer reading I focused on these three details. (Write all three down. You don’t have to copy the entire sentence, just the important words. These are your support for #3)
   
3. From these sentences, questions, and details I infer that... (finish this thought with at least two full sentences about Ralph)

EXAMPLE:
Close reading of Jack on p. 48

1. I first notice that Jack is hunting in the jungle.

2. Upon a closer look I think the following are interesting details: Long sandy hair, Mad Eyes, Values silence (sound) over heat or other factors.

3. From these details I can infer that Jack has been on the island a long time because of the length of his hair. Also, it seems as if he's become so obsessed with hunting as even his eyes are described as "mad," maybe because he hasn't been successful catching a pig yet. He's become so obsessed with a pig that even the silence is more oppressive than the heat, meaning that the fact there are no pigs around is worse in Jack's mind than the 100+ degree, humid weather.