Wicked Due
CAPT
Conferences on End of Semester
Lord of the Flies - at home; finish it for 2/15
CAPT
Conferences on End of Semester
PWB due
An End-of-Quarter Model Rubric with Evidence
Fear:
How does a society manage fear, threats? How does it resolve conflict? How
is a society sustained through conflict? How does perspective influence
fear, response to fear and manipulation by fear?
"Flies" Questions:
Chapter 1
Note the
different reactions of Piggy and Ralph when they realize there are no adults
on the island.
What are some of Piggy’s suggestions for action? What are some of his fears?
Describe Jack Merridew? How does he begin to establish himself as a leader? Compare him to Ralph.
Compare the reactions of Simon and Jack to the candlebushes. What does this reveal about them?
Find the following quotation:
“The pause was only long
enough for them to understand what enormity the downward stroke would be.”
What is going on here? What does the moment reveal? And, what is the
‘enormity’ of the situation?
Flies - Chapter 2:
What is the "sobering thought" introduced by Piggy?
According to the little boy with the birthmark, what is “the beastie”? How do the others react? Note how the “beastie” becomes the “beast” as the novel progresses.
Note possible foreshadowing, Jack says, “Follow me” to start the fire and everyone runs off. Discuss.
Note the description of Piggy, “the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the child.” Look up and write definitions for the words martyr and ebullience. What does this statement mean? What does it emphasize about him?
Look for and note phrases which describe the budding friendship between Jack and Ralph.
Why do Piggy’s specs become important?
Note Jack’s reaction to the failure of the fire.
Why does Jack offer to make the hunters and fire watchers the choir?
What is the “drum roll”? What does the raging fire possibly foreshadow? Why?
Fear:
How does a society manage fear, threats? How does it resolve conflict? How
is a society sustained through conflict? How does perspective influence
fear, response to fear and manipulation by fear?
Fear - Raymond
Carver
Not Fear
- Rafael Guillen
Reading Raymond carver's Fear and Rafael Guillen's Not Fear
Read both pf these poems at least twice.
Mark, circle, and identify words, phrases, or images that you find significant or that appeal to you in some way (it doesn't matter what you reason is, but you must have a reason).
What does this poem make you think about? Why does it make you think that?
How do these poems challenge, support, or alter your understanding of the word "fear". Cite specific lines from the poems that support your claims.
What new thinking about "fear" do you now have? Why do you now think that?
Sherman Alexie excerpts
Every Little Hurricane
A Drug Called Tradition
The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire
Jesus Christ's Half-Brother Is alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation
Indian Education
Family Portraits
How are these stories told? What are these people afraid of that makes them tell the story the way that they tell them?
Last Stand at Little Big
Horn
Crazy Horse, Sitting
Bull;
19th Century Crow, Cheyenne, Sioux; Descendents of the survivors;
Soldiers and their descendents;
Historians;
East coast land and RR speculators.
Flies - Chapter 3
What clues tell us that time has elapsed?
Note Jack’s actions at the beginning of the chapter.
Jack “became less a hunter than a furtive thing, apelike among the tangle of trees.” Define furtive and explain what you think the sentence means. What suggestion is Golding implanting?
List the adjectives used to describe the sound of the pig’s hoofs. Significance?
Why is Ralph angry about the shelters and the assemblies?
Describe the conflict between Jack and Ralph. Note – smoke Vs pigs and the quote, “They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.” What could this mean?
Note phrases, words and images (at least three) that build the feeling of fear.
Describe Simon. Where does he go?
Note the sense description in the final pages of the chapter. Choose 3 – 4 images you think are interesting, that you like. Note them.
Entrance Exam for AP English Language and Composition (also given on Thursday)
How are these stories told? What are these people afraid of that makes them tell the story the way that they tell them? Why does it matter that they are told this way?
Last Stand at Little Big
Horn
Crazy Horse, Sitting
Bull
19th Century Crow, Cheyenne, Sioux; Descendents of the survivors;
Soldiers and their descendents;
Historians;
East coast land and RR speculators.
Some background info on 19th Century Native Americans:
Little Big Horn (1876) from the BBC
Ghost Dance:
photo and painting
(James Mooney, 1891-93)
observed (Mrs. Z.A. Parker, 1890)
Pictures from Indian Schools (1865-1912)
Ronald Takaki, "The Indian Question: From Reservation to Reorganization", (1890-1935)
Flies - Chapter 4
How do the littl'uns act?
How have they lost civilization? How is Roger described? How is Golding using the
metaphor of darkness? What was Henry doing while he was being
"shelled"? Golding says "he was exercising control over
living things" Why would Henry want to do that? What do the glasses symbolize? What is Simon's reaction to
the scene in chapter 4? What is significant about his reaction?
Entrance Exams for Social Studies AP
courses 2:30 in Social Studies Office
Flies - Chapter 5
Describe the meeting in this chapter. Whose argument is more reasonable Ralph's or Jack's? How do you know?
What is Simon's reaction to this meeting? What idea does he come up with? Who does he think the beast is?
What might Ralph have done to have a more "productive" meeting?
Re-read the first paragraph of this chapter. What does this paragraph tell us about Ralph? How is he changing? How do you know?
What role does Percival play in this chapter?
Flies - Chapter 6
How does the chapter open? What is this scene symbolic of? Why would Golding include this scene at this part of the novel?
As the biguns, except for Piggy, set out to find the beast, what image of the beast forms in Simon's mind? What could that image represent?
As Ralph tried to talk with the boys, "something flittered in front of his mind, like a bat's wing, obscuring his idea." What do you think is happening to Ralph? How would you explain this "short circuit"? Recall his pounding his fist against the rock. How would you describe Ralph's state of mind?
How is Jack changing? In what ways is he still the same boy from chapter 1?
Flies Chapter 7
How des Simon comfort Ralph?
What do Ralph's early memories reveal about his early life?
What is each boy's reaction to the pig hunt?
There is increasing tension between jack and Ralph in this chapter. Give one specific example of this tension. How does Golding establish this tension? What does the author do?
Who are the three boys who go up the mountain in the dark at the end of the chapter and what happens?
What is the "great ape" in the second to last paragraph on page 123? HDYK?
Flies Chapter 8
Why does jack think he should be chief?
Why don't the boys immediately join him?
What does Simon's belief about climbing the mountain reveal about him?
What rules does jack have for his new "tribe"?
Who is talking to Simon?
Re-read page 143 where the beast speaks to Simon. What does the 'beast's" words mean? Why are these words important?
Entrance Exam for AP English Language and Composition
Flies Chapter 9
How does Gloding show us the passage of time?
examine the description of Simon on page 146.What does it mean that he walked with "... a glum determination like an old man."?
What purpose does the weather and the dance serve in this chapter? How ode it contribute to the mood of the chapter?
On pages 152-153 why does Golding use the word "beast" when we know that he is describing Simon?
Chapter 10
What is the effect of the previous nights events on Ralph and Piggy?
Why does Piggy say (on p 157) that "he asked for it."?
What do Piggy's glasses symbolize?
Why does jack say that they didn't kill the beast?
Entrance Exams for Social Studies AP
courses
LoF - FINISHED
Flies Chapter 11
How does Piggy show courage?
What events foreshadow the ultimate tragedy in this chapter?
Examine Ralph's speech about the fire. What., in this speech, highlights Ralph's essential difference from the other boys?
How does Jack respond to Piggy's statement about being a "pack of painted Indians" or to be "sensible like Ralph"? Does jack's response make sense?
What does it mean that Roger now held a "nameless authority"?
Flies Chapter 12
How do Samneric respond when Ralph finds them?
Why does Roger sharpen a stick at both ends?
How does the tribe hunt Ralph? What is ironic about this?
How does the last scene compare with the first?
Is this a fitting ending?
LoF
February Vacation
Practice CAPT
Interdisciplinary Test is March 7 and 9
Discussion of Blood Done Sign My Name, Chs. 1-3
Emmitt Till episode (E on the P)
Milam and Bryant Confession in LOOK (murder of Emmitt Till)
James Byrd (1998)
Ch. 4 Discussion
Letter from Birmingham Jail