1. Objectives:
To learn all about survival skills through The Outer Space Experience activity.
To begin to comprehend main characters, themes, motifs, and symbols from Lord of the Flies.
to understand how time period affects setting.

2. Today’s Agenda:
Journal
The Outer Space Experience: group activity
Discussion
Begin Intro to Golding and Lord of the Flies

3. Journal:
Look at yourself from the inside. What do you see that others don’t see? Explain.

4. Main Characters:
Ralph Piggy Roger Jack Simon Sam and Eric

5. Themes: Fear of the unknown The need for social order Power
Insight versus eyesight (vision)
Loss of identity
Civilization versus savagery
Loss of innocence

6. Symbols and Motifs:
the conch Piggy’s glasses signal fire the Lord of the Flies Piggy the beast Ralph Jack Simon Roger Motifs: Biblical parallels