1. Pre-reading & Literary Analysis Activities
Lord of the Flies
Pre-reading &
Literary Analysis Activities

2. Leadership & Decision Making

3. Semantic Map Group Activity
What makes a good leader?
On your white board MAP it out
5 Qualities which are needed in a good leader
5 Qualities which make for a bad leader

4. Survival STEP 1: Individually
Complete Survival Handout individually. Do not discuss your choices.
STEP 2: As a Group
Discuss and compare choices.
Using a new Survival worksheet, come to a consensus and agree on final choices as a group.

5. Follow-up How easy was it to come to decisions in your group?
Did someone emerge as a leader?
Do you think some people are natural leaders and some are natural followers?
In a survival situation, do you think that leaders should be intellectuals or those who are physically strong?
Why have leaders at all? Can’t everyone just look after himself or herself?

6. Psychology & Sociology
Lecture
Psychology & Sociology

7. Respond to these questions on your handout
What is a society?
What makes a society run smoothly? What do you need?
What expectations do you have of a leader?
How do you destroy a society?
Respond to these questions on your handout

8. Psychology The study of mental functions and behaviors
Motivation
Drive for…
Response
Recognition
Adventure
Knowledge
Security
Objective: want; desire
Action
3 Parts of the Psychic Apparatus or the Psyche
by Sigmund Freud

9. Id Basic drives and instinctual tendencies wants, desires, impulses
Example: drives like fight or flight

10. Ego Organizes thoughts Seeks to mediate between the Id and reality
to resist impulses
Conscious of social rules, but more loyal to the Id
Example: Resist the impulse to grab another’s belongings

11. Superego Moral voice or conscience.
Internalizes learned cultural rules nurtured by environment.
Seat of your sense of guilt comes from
Location of the conscience (right and wrong)
Location of defense mechanisms like denial

12. Sociology Social Norms- accepted practices
The science of society and relationships. The study of organized groups of human beings and their interactions and collective behaviors.
Social Norms- accepted practices
Mores- formal rules or morals that emphasize right and wrong
Folkways- informal rules or norms; cultural practices
Taboo- moral violation (forbidden, unmentionable action)
Culture- a set of attitudes, values, beliefs, and practices shared by a group of people
Values- standards by which you live
Ritual- habits; behaviors done repeatedly
Rules- prescribed guide for conduct or action
Law- rule of conduct/action that is formally recognized as binding and enforced by controlling forces

13. Maslow’s
Hierarchy of
Needs

14. Piggy
Ralph
Jack

15. Ch. 1 Questions Step 1: Discuss 8 questions & jot down notes
Step 2: Each member takes 2 questions
Write a 40-word response to each question on half sheet.
Blend in a quote. A quote can be just a few words from the text that help to support or emphasize your idea.
Step 3: Each member’s name must be on their half sheet. Staple all half sheets and submit together

16. How to determine Protagonist?
The Protagonist…
is the most central character
is set into motion by the turning point that is the start of the rising action
drives the action of the story
Their choices most greatly affect the outcome of the story
They act and others react
is the most dominant presence based on # of lines and scenic appearances
is a dynamic character
Experiences a figurative journey
Character arc
Experiences biggest struggle: conflicts, crisis, obstacles, complications
experiences the biggest Reversal & Recognition (philosophical change)
Note: Whichever character fits most of these categories is most likely the protagonist.

17. Deus ex Machina
Through this literary technique Ralph is rescued. This creates an interesting allegorical twist…The naval officer who rescues the boys doesn’t realize what he has stumbled upon.
What is the naval officer’s beliefs regarding what the boys are doing and have been doing?
Why is this ironic?
What does this irony say about the nature of man from a moral standpoint?

18. A Born Angel or Bad to the Bone
Synthesis Essay

19. Synthesis =
mix
meld
fuse
merge
multiple sources
to form an idea

20. The main focus is your IDEA
Carefully read all of the sources that you have been provided with.
Synthesize information from at least 3 sources into a coherent, well- developed argument.
Your argument should focus on whether humanity is naturally good or naturally bad, or devise an alternate theory.
Your argument/opinion is the focus of the essay. Do not make this an informational tour of your sources.

21. Blend Sources
Source A : William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies (novel)
Source B: “What Makes Us Moral” by Jeffrey Kluger (magazine article)
Source C: The Lucifer Effect by Phillip G. Zimbardo (published essay)
Source D: Ma’am your nurger has been paid for (newspaper article)
Source E: Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Reasoning (chart)
Source F: “New Yorker’s Doubt That Their Response” (newspaper article)
Note:
You must use Source A
You must use 2 other sources from this list in your essay = 3 total sources

22. Claim
Example Option 1: Because humanity has many redeeming qualities, mankind is biologically programmed to be good and moralistic. OR
Example Option 2: Time and time again through its own horrific acts humanity proves itself to be naturally bad and morally depraved.
Option 3: Devise an alternate theory

23. Sample Introductory Paragraph
Use a quote from workbook pg. 3 of as your attention-getter
Attention-Getter: At a New York subway station, a man trips and falls six feet onto the subway tracks and is knocked unconscious. In a split-second, a complete stranger chooses to save this man’s life by jumping onto the tracks and covering his body as the subway train dangerously passes overhead. This hero was a half of an inch away from death.
Extend: Wesley Autrey’s heroic action is a clear example of humanity at its best: humans selflessly helping each other. It is said that decisions made in a split-second define who a person is.
Connect: These ethical decisions are a result of the moral conscience, which is a quality that all humans possess.
Claim : Because humanity has many redeeming qualities, mankind is biologically programmed to be good and moralistic.

24. Vary Diction & Sentence Structure
Eliminate repetitiveness
Good
Bad
Create sentence variety
Virtuous
Honorable
Moral
Upright
Ethical
Noble
Principled
Worthy
Humane
Self-Sacrificing
Altruistic
Decent
Corrupt
Morally depraved
Evil
Cruel
Immoral
Amoral
Unethical
Ruthless
Malicious
Selfish
Unprincipled
Length: staccato (1-2 words), telegraphic (shorter than 5 words), short (5-10 words), medium (15-25 words), long (30 or more words)
Vary sentence openers
Vary sentence closers
Use compound and complex sentence structure

25. Content Format 500 to 600 words Opinion-based editorial style writing
Ideas paragraphed into a beginning, middle, and an end
Blend 3 quotes total from different sources into your writing
Quotes must be relevant and support your theory
Provide clear and thorough explanations of your ideas
Lord of the Flies must be one of your sources
Format
Typed and must follow MLA: 1” margins, 12-point font, indent first line of each paragraph.
In-text parenthetical citations with author’s last name after quotes or paraphrased info.
Header with name, class, hour, & date
Include a title (not the name of the assignment): must be clever and encapsulate your idea
No first person (I, me, my)