Chapter 12

1. Who is referred to as the outlaw at the beginning of Chapter 12 and why?

2. What does Ralph do to “The Lord of the Flies”?

3. Who are the new members of Jack’s tribe in Chapter 12?

4. What has Jack planned to do to Ralph?

5. Why does Roger “sharpen a stick at both ends”? For what specific reason?

6. Where does Ralph hide and what is a result of this?

7. What, specifically, does Jack’s tribe do to the island?

8. What does Ralph reflect upon at the end of the novel?

9. What happens to Ralph and the rest of the boys at the end of the novel? 

Chapter 11

Write your responses into your Google Document for Lord of the Flies

1. Why does the tribe of the conch go to Castle Rock?

2. What symbolic event happens to the conch?

3. Name three moments of irony during their visit to Castle Rock?

4. Who kills Piggy and why?

5. What are the two options mentioned by Ralph and Piggy?

6. Who is taken prisoner and will be tortured by Roger at the end of Chapter 11?

Homework- Finish reading Lord of the Flies.

Chapter 9 and 10

Chapter 9- Respond to these questions in your Google Document.

1. What change has Simon gone through?  Why is “the usual brightness gone from his eyes?”  You may answer this with a scientific explanation or a deeply philosophic reason.  Each are acceptable and valid.

2.  What is the figure that he encounters and what does he realize?

3.  What is “the beast?”

4.  What are Ralph and Piggy doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. Where has everyone but Piggy and Ralph gone?  What are they doing?

6.  Where do Piggy and Ralph eventually go?

7.  What argument does Jack make for being leader?  What argument does Jack make for being leader?  What reasons does each of them give for the rest of the boys to follow them?

8.  When it begins to rain, what do all of the boys begin to do?  What movement, specifically?  What are they collectively referred to as?

9.  What crawls out of the forest?  Who crawls out of the forest?  What mistaken identity takes place?  What clue is given at the bottom of page 152?  What happens to this beast?

10.  During the storm, where does the figure on the mountaintop move to?

11.  Where does the “beast” go?

12. Paragraph- Write a short paragraph on Simon’s fate.  If he is a representation or symbol of kindness, then what comment is William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, making on humanity in the novel.  How is Simon’s fate symbolic?


Reading from:
Chapter 10

1. What is the “unspoken knowledge” between the tribe of the conch?

2. What do the savages steal from the tribe of the conch?

3. What does Jack promise his tribe?

4. Why is the small boy, Wilfred, to be beaten? What is the reason given by Roger?

5. How many savages are sent on the mission to steal from the tribe of the conch? What do they steal?

Homework- Finish reading Chapter 10.  Read Chapter 11.
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Chapter 8- Second Half: Completed Essay Due

By the end of the period, you should complete this essay in your Google Document.  Use your plan from yesterday.  This will not be accepted if it is late- if it is finished any later than the ring of the bell, it is late.

Directions:

Read 138-144, consider the quote and the question below.  Then, plan your response. 

You may use your book and brainstorm in your LOF Google document.  Of course, this response must be your own work. First brainstorm, the write the essay- your progress on this is factored into your grade as a quiz grade.

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Simon’s Terrible Realization

… and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition

                                                                (Page 138, Chapter 8: Lord of the Flies)

Question:

From our understanding of the novel, what, specifically, is this ‘inescapable recognition’ (referred to above and developed in the following pages of the chapter) in Lord of the Flies; what is the greater meaning of this realization?  Pay close attention to what the pig’s head on a stick says to Simon by the end of the chapter. Connect what the pig’s head expresses to the rest of our work in the novel so far; discuss at least two other earlier chapters to receive credit for your response.

1.       Brainstorm- plan a four paragraph essay

2.       Write and introduction

3.       Write body paragraphs that connect the meaning in chapter 8 to earlier chapters

4.       Write a conclusion that expresses the deeper meaning of Golding’s perspective on the human psyche

Response:

Clearly express what the realization is and what the ‘root’ of the problem is. 

Use examples from Lord of the Flies itself to support your claim (thesis: idea).

Discuss the greater meaning of this “recognition”.

LOF: Chapter 8(first half)

“Gift for the Darkness”

Questions

1.       What do the others inform Piggy of in the beginning of Chapter 8?  How do they describe this discovery?

2.       What effect does this have on the signal fire?

3.       What does Ralph comment on concerning Jack’s hunters? What effect does this have?

4.       Who calls a meeting and why?

5.       List at least 5 topics which Jack brings up at this meeting. 

6.       What does Jack decide to do?  And what is Piggy’s opinion of this action?

7.       What do the boys decide to do about the signal fire?  Be specific.

8.       What do they decide about the fire which they make?  Why?

9.       Which boys remain with Piggy and Ralph?  Which have gone?  Where have they gone? 

10.    What do Piggy and the twins do to celebrate?

11.    Where is Simon?

12.    Where is Jack on the Island?  List at least 3 things that he plans to do.

13.    What do Jack and the hunters discover in the woods?  Explain the chain of events which happen after this discovery.  Be specific with as  many details as possible.

14.    What do they leave for the beast? Why?

15.    What do they take with them along the beach?  How do they take ‘it’ with them?

16.    What is left behind?

PARAGRAPHS

A.      Metaphor/Symbol 
Explain how the beast is a symbol of the boy’s fear. Explain the chain of events which happen after its discovery and what happens to ‘the tribe of the conch.’ How is the overall situation a metaphor for what fear does to a community?  Think about the overall effect of the ‘apelike’ thing on the mountain-top.  What is the beast blocking the boys from doing?

B.     Allegorical Irony

Discuss the sacrifice that Jack and his tribe offer to the beast.  With the knowledge that we have as readers, the fearfulness that the boys on the island experience is ridiculous.  Use the term of dramatic irony to discuss the great and unneeded worry and extremes which the inhabitants of the Island put themselves through.  Ultimately, what lesson does this teach us about fear?  In what way is this an allegory about fear?

Chapter 6

Respond to these in you Google Document

1. What is the significance of the chapter’s title?

2. What is the beast, imaginary and actual?

3. Where are there examples of personification?

4. Where are there examples of foreshadowing?

5. Explain the development of the conflict between Jack and Ralph?

6. How is the change in setting, from the beginning of the chapter to the end, at once, symbolic and foreshadowing the future of the novel?  Pay close attention to the details of imagery of the cliffs. 

Homework- Read Chapter 7; make a list of events in the chapter.

Review of Lord of the Flies so far

COMPLETE A-D IN YOUR GOOGLE DOCUMENT

For A and B below, you will find interpretations of characters and objects.  For each one of these, find and identify support by referring to specifics from the chapters read so far and quoting directly from the specific place where the idea appears in the novel.

Of course, write this into your Lord of the Flies Google Document

1. Representation

1)      Ralph- fair/ respectful leadership

2)      Jack- leadership of fear

3)      Simon- kindness

4)      Piggy- intelligence

5)      Roger- cruelty and evil

2. Symbolism

1)      The Conch- community

2)      The Fire- power (neutral)

3)      Creepers- obstacles/ struggle against nature

4)      The Beastie- the boy’s inner fear

5)      Piggy’s Glasses- products of the cooperative progress of civilization (technology?)

6)      Jack’s Painted Face- freedom from shame and conscience

3. Essay Topic- why does “civilization” break/ deteriorate?  Create an outline for this essay; then, write the introduction

D. Chapter Six “Beast from Air” Vocabulary- define each and create an original sentence that relates to the characters and events in the novel so far and also demonstrates your understanding of the word's definition.

            Diffidently-

            Chasm-

            Leviathan-

            Plinth-

            Exulting-

Homework- Read Chapter 6 "Beast from the Air".  Write a summary of events in the chapter and each sentence where the words above appear.  This is due tomorrow, on a piece of loose leaf paper at the beginning of the period.  If you are late to class, I will not accept your homework.

Painted Faces and Long Hair/ Beast from the Water

Write your responses to all tasks and questions into your Lord of the Flies Google Doc.

A.  Write an a) original sentence for the vocabulary words below as well as

b) the sentence where it appears in the text.

Opalescence

a.

b.

Impending

a.

b.

Blatant

a.

b.

Belligerence

a.

b.

Detritus

a.

b.

Myriad

a.

b.

Tacit

a.

b.

Malevolently

a.

b.

B. Write a short paragraph on each of the questions below

1.  What are the ‘litt’luns’ motivated by?  Briefly describe their lifestyle.  

2.  What happens when Maurice can no longer remember ‘civilization’ or if ‘civilization’ never existed? 

3.  What would Roger do if he hadn’t been affected by the society that all of the boys had come from-England? 

C.  Draw Jack’s face from the description in this chapter and then explain it clearly in your Document.  What does the mask symbolize, according to the text.  

D. Discuss the changes that have occurred on the island from the moment of the boys assembling on the island to the present chapter. 
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Chapter 5

Lord of the Flies

A.  Questions

1. What is Ralph’s state of mind in the beginning of the chapter?

2. What quality does he admire in Piggy? Why?

3. What is the overall purpose of the meeting?  What is Ralph’s objective?

4. In what way does Piggy make a type of “protest”?

5. What comment does Ralph make about the assemblies they have had before?

6. What are at least four topics presented by Ralph at the assembly?

7. What does Jack say, concerning the beast?

8. What does Piggy say, concerning the beast?

9. What does Simon say, concerning the beast?

10. Who does one of the littluns notice at night?

11. What do the littluns do at the assembly, when Percival begins to cry?

12. What is Maurice’s theory about the beast?

13. How does Jack question Ralph’s authority, near the end of the meeting?

14. What do the boys wish for?

15. How does the meeting end?

B.  Literary Terms- find at least two specific examples of each literary term below to express the theme of the chapter.

Setting (mood)

Foreshadowing

Irony

Symbolism

3. Paragraph

Discuss at least two of the literary elements above to explain the theme of Chapter Five: “Beast from Water”.  

Chapter 2

Write the information below into your Google Doc that you have started on Lord of the Flies.  Your responses count as a homework/ quiz grade.

A.  Define the words below.

tirade

recrimination

ebullience

errant

officious

virtuous

B.  Answer the following questions

1.  At the beginning of Chapter 2, the inhabitants of the island have a meeting.  At this meeting, some rules are set up.  The rest of the islanders, besides those who have explored the island-Ralph, Jack and Simon, are informed about the island.  What are the rules that have been set up and what information do the leaders (Jack and Ralph) give about the island?

2.  What is the “beastie?”  Why is it a concern?  How does Jack put the litt’lun’s fears to rest?

3.  What great feat do the boys accomplish by the use of Piggy’s glasses?  For what reason do they do this?  What new job do the chorus boys (hunters) have after this point?

4.  At the close of the chapter, Piggy points out some difficulties and faults of Ralph’s leadership.  What does Piggy point out about a) his status b) shelter c) taking a census

d) the fire?  Answer a-d.

5.  What is the foreseeable conflict (between the shelters and the fire) arising from Piggy’s points?

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Beginning Lord of the Flies

Vocabulary!!

clambering

                                                                                    creepers

lodgments      

                                                                                    foliage

fledged

                                                                                    abruptly

motif  

                                                                                    efflorescence

jetty    

                                                                                    omen

proffer

                                                                                    interposed

frond   

                                                                                    decorous

irrelevance      

                                                                                    vital

1. Define the words above.  Then, use at least 11 in a story that makes logical sense.

In the First Chapter 

2.  Describe Piggy and Ralph’s characteristics.  Be as complete as possible.

3.  What is the Scar?

4.  What is the shell?  What is it used for?  Describe it.

5.  What is Piggy’s “ill-omened talk”?

6.  What is the “something...being done”? Explain fully?

The Significance of Night Essay

The Significance of Night Essay

Mr. Buyce

Night by Elie Wiesel

Task- after reading the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, write a five paragraph essay in which you identify and discuss three significant aspects of the work.  Use aspects from the beginning, middle and end of the work to construct your response.

Where to Begin?

Brainstorming/planning- in your discussion of each aspect, explain why each aspect is important.  Refer to and quote from the text to express details that support your discussion of each aspect that you choose to explore.

What to Include?

In the introduction,express a clear thesis and provide a preview of the aspects that you have chosen to explore. In your conclusion, express an interesting point about historical novels and the discussion in the rest of your essay (body paragraphs); do not merely restate the thesis from your introduction.  Of course, maintain a formal writing style to communicate your points effectively and use any analysis of a literary element that assists in developing and/ or expressing your points as well.

Where to Write?

Write this essay response into your Google document that you created to write notes about the novel Night: “Night Notes”.  We will begin this work in class with our chromebooks; you should finish and revise this work for homework. Your finished response to this task, however, is factored into your fourth quarter grade as a Unit Test/ Project grade.  Your progress and focus during our class period is factored into your fourth quarter grade as a Classwork grade.

Up to page 97: Night

INCLUDE ALL OF YOUR RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR GOOGLE DOCUMENT FOR NIGHT

Define the following words.

automatons                                                                          entity

parched                                                                                 famished

petrified                                                                                bewildered

stupefied                                                                               bereaved

privations                                                                             semblance

apathy                                                                                   vigilance

embarkation

Answer the following questions (from your reading homework)

1.       As the prisoners of the camp set out from Buna, they are not allowed to stop or slow down.  What is the consequence of a prisoner stopping?  What will happen to them?

2.       What does the narrator explain as the only thing that kept him from stopping or slowing down?

3.       Where do they stop at first?

4.       Why is Eliezer warned not to fall asleep?  What do Eliezer and his father do instead/ where do they end up?

5.       What or who is Rabbi Eliahou looking for?  What has happened?  What does Eli realize?

6.       What destination do they finally reach?

7.       Who does Eli find as they enter the new camp?  What is he worried about and what eventually happens to him?

8.       What new threat do Eli and his father face in the new camp?  

9.       How long do they stay at the new camp and what are they made to do?

10.    “On the third day, at dawn”, what happens?  What is the possible reason for this occurrence?

11.    Explain fully how Eli escapes being separated from his father?

12.    What do the prisoners do to quench their thirst?

 Write a short paragraph on the difference between Eli’s devotion to his father and Rabbi Eliahou’s son’s devotion.  Briefly comment on how this explains the stress put upon a son’s responsibility to his father.  Overall, answer the question of why Eliahou’s son would do such a thing?  Why are Eliahou’s son’s actions rational but still unacceptable?

66-77/77-84

Quiz Task- In your Google document, answer A and B (1-2)-from your reading homework last night.  This will be graded as a quiz.

When you are finished with the task above, look at the rest of the questions on this post and begin reading from 77-84 to answer these questions in your Google doc.

A.  Explain completely the process of “selection” as it happens to Eli, his father and the rest of the prisoners.  What are the specific steps?  Refer to specific details from the novel.

B.  Questions

1.       What reason does the narrator of Night give for Akiba Drumer being “selected” against?  Why does he become unable to work?

2.       What does he, Akiba Drumer, ask of his friends?

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3.       For what reason does Eliezer have to go see a doctor?  What happens to him as a consequence of this?

4.       What does the Hungarian Jew explain to him?

5.       What is it like in the hospital?

6.       How long does Eliezer have to stay in the hospital?

7.       What ‘rumor’ starts to circulate “two days after” Eliezer’s operation?

8.       What fact does Hitler make “very clear”?

9.       Where will the inhabitants of the camp be moved to?  What will happen to the ‘invalids’?

10.    What major decision are Eli and his father faced with?

11.    What decision do they make and why?

12.    Give two reasons why Eli cannot sleep?

13.    How are people dressed for the evacuation?  What special item does Eli try to find for himself and his condition?

14.    What are the four prisoners ordered to do before they leave the camp? Why?

Buna

Night-pages 45-56

English 10

Buyce

1.      What does Buna look like when they first arrive?  Explain fully.

2.      How is the leader of the camp described?

3.      Why exactly does the leader of the camp and other Nazi’s have an interest in the children that are brought in?

4.      What does one of the assistants ask of Eli for getting into a good unit?

5.      Who is Franek?

6.      Who is Juliek and what does he explain to Eli?

7.      What do they do at the warehouse?

8.      For what reason does the secretary of the block send for Eli?

9.      What is Eli’s #?

10.  How does Eli escape having his gold cap taken out?

11.  What eventually happens to the dentist?  Why?

12.  Why does Eli get into a fight with Idek? Who helps him afterward?

13.  What does Eli eventually find out about the French woman he works next to?  Explain fully.

14.  Why does Idek beat Eli’s father? Who is Eli mad at and why?

15.  What does Franec ask Eli for and how does he eventually get it? Explain fully.

16.  What does Eli discover in the warehouse one Sunday afternoon?

17.  What happens to Eli because of his discovery?

Paragraph- Overall, what do we learn about the leaders and administration of Buna and corruption.  Make a list of the many things that they are guilty, in addition to the general brutality of the camp, and write a paragraph about the character of these people.  Cite the text in MLA format.

Beginning Night

Night- pages 3-22

Vocabulary and Change Introduction

English 10

Mr. Buyce

Complete the definitions; answer questions and then write a paragraph on the transformation of our narrator’s life from your knowledge of the reading from homework.

  

A. Vocabulary

Timidity                                                                       Indulgently

Waiflike                                                                       Initiation

Mysticism                                                                    Emigration

Sentimental                                                                  Fascist

Abstraction                                                                  Truncheons

Anecdotes                                                                    Billeted

Optimism                                                                     Decree

Expounding                                                                 Edict

Phylacteries                                                    

B. Questions

1.      Explain the character of Moshe the Beadle, physically and his effect on other people.

2.      How old should one be to study “mysticism?”

3.      What are the names of the narrator’s siblings?

4.      Who ends up being the narrator’s master?

5.      Where is it that Moshe the Beadle tells Eliezer the true answers are?

6.      What is the narrator doing, generally, in the beginning of the novel?  Before all of the foreign Jews were expelled?

7.      Why are the foreign Jews expelled?

8.      What story does Moshe the Beadle tell to Eliezer about his escape?

9.      How does Moshe change from his experience?

10.  For what reasons does the narrator think that he and his people are safe?

11.  How are the German soldiers perceived, when they first arrive?

12.  What happens on the seventh day of Passover?

13.  What are the Jewish people required to wear after Passover?

14.  Where are they forced to live?

15.  What information does Stern, the police officer, tell Eliezer’s family?

16.   Who do they miss, who was knocking on the window?  Why is this crucial?

17.  Explain the overall scene at the closing of the reading.

C.  Paragraph- write a paragraph on the drastic change in our narrator’s life.

April 17

Period 3:  Research the Holocaust on the internet and in the Cengage Library- add this information to the Google doc that you started on April 14.  Also add your responses to the questions from  "Keep Memory Alive" to the same Google doc.

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Period 6:  Find information on the novel Night by Elie Wiesel.  Include this information in the last document that you ceated and were supposed to share with me.  Be sure that you paraphrase (in your own words) the information and document it correctly.  You must have at least a page and a half of paraphrased information.

There Will Come Soft Rains and the Modern Moment

Answer the questions (2-4: page 292) that follow "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, in your textbook.  Write your responses to these questions in a new Google doc that you will title the name of this post.

Then, write at least one paragraph on how the concerns of this short story explain a concern in the modern moment.  Include these in the same Google doc.

After you have completed the questions and the paragraph, write your responses to passages A-F (written on loose leaf paper in an earlier class) about the central idea and literary element/ technique.  These responses must also be included in the Google doc.

This must all be completed by the end of the period and shared with me at that time.

Research Assignment- Feb 4

As discussed,  research is only useful if it connects to primary text.  In this case, the primary texts that we wish to discover are "A Problem" by Anton Chekhov and "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury.  Today, we will use a .edu on the internet and an article in the Cengage library in our media center.  Follow the steps below.

1. Chekhov-  go to Google on the internet, enter Anton Chekhov into a search and select the option of  biography that is a .edu.  Find the useful part of this source and scan it for information that connects to "A Problem" : any information that could have inspired Chekhov to write the short story or any concern in the story that was a part of his life.  Then, write that information into a paragraph that not only uses in text citation but has work cited information after it.

2. Bradbury- go to the school's website, access Academics, Library Media Center, Literature Resource Center.  Proceed and select a title search; be sure to include the Bradbury in the box under the title of the work "There Will Come Soft Rains".  In the article that you find, follow the steps that you completed in #1(above).

***The paragraphs that you are writing and documenting should be written on actual paper; you will add this to the essay that you will hand in today.  So, everyone must have their own distinct paragraphs to hand in with their essays on The Good and Evil in Bradbury and Chekhov