Month: May 2018

5/21

Complete Essay

5/22 AND 5/23

Lord of the Flies Movie/Functional Skills Basketball Game

Write down ten substantial differences between the movie and the novel

5/24

Go over research project assignment.  Have students annotate assignment and ask questions.  Present students with topic choices and permission form.  All forms located on Google Classroom.

5/25

Teach students how to use GALE research system.  Have students research their own chosen topics.  Go over research and source notes briefly.  All located on Google Classroom.

5/21

Write Essay

How does the novel, The House on Mango Street, use figurative language to create meaning?

1. Introduction
   1. Hook
   2. Bridge
   3. Thesis Statement – The House on Mango Street uses _____ and _____ to create meaning.
2. Body Paragraph 1 – First type of figurative language you chose
   1. Topic Sentence
   2. evidence – embedded quote
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
   3. evidence #2 embedded quote
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care

• Body Paragraph 2 – Second type of figurative language you chose
  1. Topic Sentence
  2. evidence – embedded quote
     1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
  3. evidence #2 – embedded quote
     1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
  4. Conclusion – wrap it up offering new insight of some kind (ie relate the novel to present day, or provide a new thought on figurative language)

5/22

Finish Essay

5/23

Read pages about Shakespeare in textbook and mind-map what you learned about him in pairs or by yourself.  After, read textbook pages that describe Shakespearean literary terms and take notes on the graphic organizer provided.

5/24

Watch Shakespeare Video and write down 25 facts in bullet point form describing what you learned from the video.

5/26

You need to complete two tasks in your groups today. Whether you do one at a time, or do both at the same time, they both need to get done.
(1) Answer all 5 questions, one answer sheet per group, following all instructions. Do not rewrite questions.  This is the Romeo/Juliet Pre-reading Activity that asks 5 questions about love and their experiences.
(2) Create a family crest for your group.

5/16

SIT IN SURVIVAL GROUPS.

 

GET OUT ONE PIECE OF PAPER PER GROUP.

 

WRITE THE NAMES OF ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PRESENT IN YOUR GROUP.

 

TITLE THE PAGE “LOTF TEST.”

GO DOWN A LINE.  WRITE “TEST NUMBER: ___”

 

GO DOWN A LINE. NUMBER 1 THROUGH 44.

 

BRACE YOURSELVES: it is 44 questions. You have NO TIME to goof off.

 

5/17, 5/18, 5/21

Get you books, paragraphs, and blank lined paper out.

Sit in assigned seats.

 

Hook

Thesis

 

Body paragraph

2 pieces evidence (cite) (Golding 64).

Commentary why or how the evidence proves your point

 

Body paragraph

Different – 2 pieces of evidence commentary

 

Conclusion – how something from the book related to your world today

 

 

 

1. Introduction
2. Hook
3. Thesis Statement
4. Body Paragraph 1 – Similarities
5. Topic Sentence
   1. evidence illustrating they are similar
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
   2. evidence #2 illustrating they are similar
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care

• Body Paragraph 2 – Differences

1. Topic Sentence
   1. evidence illustrating they are different
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
   2. evidence #2 illustrating they are different
      1. Commentary (2 sentences) explaining how this proves your TS and WHY we care
   3. Conclusion connecting Lord of the Flies essay to the present day

READ CHAPTER 12

Assign these questions to four different groups

Remember

• Ralph, who begins the chapter being hunted in the jungle, finds the pig’s head, the ‘Lord of the Flies.’ What does he do with it?
• When Jack can’t get to Ralph, who is hiding in some dense brush in the jungle, what new approach does he take to get to his enemy?
• Ralph runs to the beach to escape the hunters and finds someone unexpected. Who does he find on the beach?

Understand

• What brought the naval officer to the island?
• When the naval officer finds Ralph on the beach, he reacts with a mixture of emotions. Explain what he seems to feel at the sight of Ralph and the members of Jack’s tribe.
• When Ralph is hiding in the thicket, how do Jack’s hunters know where to find him?

Apply

• Situational irony comes up when there’s tension between what actually happens in the story and what you, as the reader, expected to happen. Explain the situational irony of the boys’ rescue at the end of the novel.
• Deus ex machina is a literary device. When writers put characters in a terrible situation and then suddenly, out of nowhere, they give the characters a way out, that’s deus ex machina. Explain how that term applies to the end of Lord of the Flies.
• A literary motif is an idea that keeps appearing throughout a book. Explain how the motif of predator and prey functions in this final chapter of the novel.

Analyze

• Percival, one of the littleuns in the group, was only able to say his name and address at the beginning of the novel.  Now, when he approached the naval officer, “he sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away.”  In other words, he no longer remembers his name.  Explain the significance of this moment.
• Why don’t the boys celebrate when the naval officer comes to rescue them?
• Contrast the naval officer’s expectation of the boys with the reality on the island.

5/15

Please get into your question groups from yesterday

We will review the questions quickly, and then play a review game in your survival groups.

https://www.playfactile.com/schuster