LAST WEEK: Students turned in an expository-narrative about your "fifth freedom" and likewise completed an in-class writing evaluation on the summer reading. We focused on annotation techniques, and began our reading of Lord of the Flies.

Monday

Discussing the first chapter of LOTF. We'll post plot and interpretive questions, list vocab, and identify important quotes on a google sheet. We'll start an informal discussion on ch. 1.
HW: 5th period: read the first half of chapter 2. 6th period: finish answering the three questions on today's handouts. Tomorrow we will begin our writing improvement plan conferences. We will meet in my office, room 330, and these meetings will last 10-15 minutes. Remember to bring your freshmen portfolio. We will look at that and also review the aforementioned two essays on freedom and which character most embodies loss.

Tuesday

Continued discussion of "The Sound of the Shell." We will review our class notes together through a Great Books style discussion of the chapter.
Hw: Read the last half of chapter two tonight, "Fire on the Mountain." For this chapter, take annotate for Golding's characterization of nature and humans.

Wednesday

Discussion of chapter two. As with chapter one, we will start with a google sheet on the chapter. We will watch a clip from Ancient Greeks: Crucible of Civilization about the foundation of Athenian democracy.
HW: Read chapter three, "Huts on the Beach."

Thursday

Discussion of chapter three.
HW: Read chapter four, "Painted Faces and Long Hair," up through and including page 67.

Friday

Discussion: what impact does wearing a mask have upon our behavior? We will finish discussing Simon's isolation at the end of chapter three, and will also spend some time finishing reading chapter four.
HW: Read chapter five, "Beast from Water."