Tuesday October 20, 2015

English 9- I collected the final drafts of the first personal narrative. Today we used the author's craft notes from yesterday to analyze Ted Kooser's poem Abandoned Farmhouse and fill out the TPS-FASTT graphic organizer.


English 10- Today we continued to analyze chapter 4 and reviewed chapters 1-4 in The Lord of the Flies. The comprehensions questions for chapter 4 and the review questions for chapters 1-4 are due tomorrow.  Here they are if you need the questions:

Chapter 4 QUESTIONS: answer the following questions.  Use complete sentences.

1.  What do the first two paragraphs describe? 

2.  How is this description important symbolically to the story? 

3.  What have the littluns grown used to because of their eating habits?

4.  Who are the three boys building sand castles? 

5.   Who is the leader of the three?  What reason is given for him being leader? 

6.  Who cries and why? 

7.  Of what duty have Roger and Maurice just been relieved? 

8.  Of what does Maurice feel a bit guilty? 

9.  What catches Henry’s interest on the beach? 

10. What almost hits Roger?

11.  What keeps Roger from throwing the stones at Henry?

12.   What is Jack doing to himself and why?

13.  Who is all with Jack in the forest?

14.  What is a strange detail of Piggy’s hair? 

15.  What does Piggy suggest making that Ralph ignores?

16.  What does Ralph see in the distance? 

17.  What happened to the smoke on the mountain?  How does Ralph react? 

18.  What does Jack return with?

19.  What do the boys chant upon their return? 

20.  What happens to Piggy after he yells at Jack for letting the fire go out? 

21.  Who gives Piggy his piece of meat? 

22.  What does Jack do in response to this? 

23.  What does Maurice pretend to be? 

24.  What does Ralph decide to do at the end of the chapter?

LOTF Chapters 1 through 4 review

1. Characterize and explain the development of Jack as a character.

2. Discuss 2 symbols that have emerged in the story and explain their significance.

3. Simon is a character that becomes important at the end of chapter 3. What is unique about him? How can he be characterized? What predictions can you make about him?

4. The Lord of the Flies is considered an important novel because of what it says about humans and their ability to be civilized. What are the last connections that the boys have to civilization? What is happening to these connections?