10 th Grade English Tuesday 3 Dec Agenda: Discussion Questions in Journal Finish Reading Ch 8 w SGQs Ch 9 Vocab Read All of Chapter 9 Continue Answering Ch 8-10 Comprehension Questions H/W: 1. Finish reading chapter 9, answer Comprehension Questions 16,6,7,9,8, and craft 2 discussion questions for 2 quotes from chapter Chapters 5-8 Vocab Test TOMORROW - Wednesday, 12/4 3. Chapters 8-10 Comprehension Quiz Thursday, 12/5 4. Symbolism Project Due Friday, 12/6

Discussion Questions  As you read, mark a place from the chapter that seems confusing, symbolic, or has potential for deeper meaning.  Then, write the page number down for yourself in your journal.  Below the page number, craft a discussion question that goes with the passage you just marked.  Please do this twice for chapter 8, and twice for chapter 9, for a total of 4 discussion questions.  You may answer them if you have an idea bubbling in your brain, but you are not required to do so.

Ch 9 Vocab Interspersed: to distribute among other things at intervals. POS: verb Sample Sentence: The family interspersed red and blue ornaments on the Christmas tree.

Ch 9 Vocab Corpulent: excessively fat POS: adjective Sample Sentence: Santa’s corpulent figure was seen waving at the children.

Ch 9 Vocab Phosphorescent: emitting light without appreciable heat POS: adjective Sample Sentence: The phosphorescent Christmas lights were a beautiful sight to behold.

Ch 9 Vocab Torrid: burning from the heat of the sun; intensley hot. POS: adjective Sample Sentence: The torrid noonday sun melted all of the snow.

Ch 8-10 Questions 1. What is the “Lord of the Flies”? 2. What two things does Jack’s tribe steal from Ralph’s? 3. Who dies? 4. Describe the death scene. 5. Who is first to insist that the murder was an accident? 6. Which character doesn’t get any pork? 7. What does Jack tell Ralph about the conch? 8. Where is the body of the dead character at the end of the chapters? 9. Where is the beastie or the dead pilot at the end of the chapters?

Dante’s Inferno :  In her notes on this circle, Dorothy L. Sayers writes that "the surrender to sin which began with mutual indulgence leads by an imperceptible degradation to solitary self-indulgence." Dorothy L. Sayers  The gluttons lie here sightless and heedless of their neighbors, symbolizing the cold, selfish, and empty sensuality of their lives.  Just as lust has revealed its true nature in the winds of the previous circle, here the slush reveals the true nature of sensuality – which includes not only overindulgence in food and drink, but also other kinds of addiction.

Ch 8-10 Questions 10. What does Jack order the boys to do as the weather turns? 11. What does the sow’s head represent to Simon? 12. Name the bigun’s left in Ralph’s tribe. 13. What effect did the paint and the costume have on Jack? 14. What might the character’s death symbolize? 15. Where does Jack’s tribe make camp? 16. Who is the first to discover the true identity of the beast? 17. Why does Jack leave the group? 18. Who blows the conch to call an assembly at the beginning of Ch. 8? 19. Who suggests that they return to the mountain to hunt for the beast?