By William Golding

  In your notes:  Look at the cover  What do you think this story will be about? (If you know, please don’t share).  Analyze the title  What do you think about the title?  What do you think it means? Quick Write

  Cover: The story takes place on an island. A group of boys crash landed when their plane was shot down during a war. There are no adult survivors.  Title: Lord of the Flies is literally translated from “Beelzebub,” an alternate name for Lucifer or Satan. Turn and talk: If the author titled his book after the devil, what do you suppose you should look for while you read? What can you expect will happen? (2 min) Background Check

  Allegory - A story with a double meaning: a primary or surface meaning and a secondary or under-the-surface meaning.  Symbol - An object, animate or inanimate, which represents or ‘stands for’ something else.  Flashback - A term which probably derives from the cinema, and which is now also used to describe any scene or episode in a play, novel, story or poem which is inserted to show events that happened at an earlier time.  Microcosm - A representation of ideas and activities present in larger society  Foreshadowing - Technique of arranging events and information in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for or shadowed forth beforehand. This gives structural and thematic unity.  Theme - The central idea which may be stated directly or indirectly by the author Literary Terms

  Allegory Look for religious connections within the text.  Symbol Look for objects that represent more than their literal representation (characters count, too).  Flashback Look for places that give the reader more context about characters prior to the current setting  Foreshadowing Look for moments/descriptions that could suggest later problems  Microcosm Connect the basic story to larger world issues.  Theme Follow recurring messages the author embeds throughout the text. Literary Terms – What to look for

  William Golding  Born September 19, 1911  Cornwall, England  Studied science but switched to English Lit in college  Became a teacher  WWII entered the Royal Navy  Discovered the innate evil of man  Success with LOTF, but not much else  Returned to teaching and writing Author Background

  For this unit, you will be required to keep close reading notes to demonstrate your understanding and higher level thinking skills of the novel.  You will do this for all chapters  You will be assigned a focus question for each set of chapters. Keep detailed notes for your focus question in addition to your close reading notes  You must write down page numbers of important information Close Reading