Wednesday-Thursday, 20-21 October

Homework:
Each student is to do research by gathering the following data from six (6) adults the following questions:
What is the title of your favorite book?
Who is the author?
What is the author's gender?
What genre is the book?
About when was the book written?
Age of the adult interviewed (It may be appropriate to simply approximate.)
The adult's gender.

This data is due on Tuesday, 26 October.

There is an additional homework assignment at the end of this post that is based in Lord of the Flies and is due on Friday.

In class we took time to think about and write about these questions:

Now that you have read the entire novel, take 15 minutes to write your impressions of the book. The following are some questions you can use to guide your writing. Don’t stop with simple answers to these questions. Use the whole time allotted to think and write about these questions. There are no wrong answers. For each question you think and write about be sure to provide reasons why or why not!

What morals or messages do you get from the story? Do you generally agree with the view of the world that Golding presents in the book, why or why not?

How does the book make you feel about people in general? How does it make you feel about yourself as a person?

Do you think Lord of the Flies is a good book?

What symbol seems most important to you? What does this symbol make clear to you?

Which character on the island do you think you are most like? The most dissimilar from?

We discussed these questions.

Then we did a close reading of Chapter 11. We looked for information (quotes) that seemed to indicate significant changes among the boys.

For homework for Friday students are to identify and record the six most significant quotes from Chapter 12.