1. The Stanford Prison Experiment and Lord of the Flies
English I Pre-IB

2. Bell-Ringer
1.) Read the and annotate the article on the Stanford Prison experiment. Annotations: -Unusual/Unknown vocabulary -Main ideas -Details that cause you to pose further questions **At the end of the article, write ONE question about the ideas presented. Be sure you have highlighted the facts within the article that are the basis for your question.

3. Stanford Prison Experiment: Basis
What was the research question this study was designed to address?

4. Stanford Prison Experiment: Method
How was this research performed?

5. Stanford Prison Experiment: Results
What were the overall findings of this experiment?

6. SPE Discussion Was this experiment, in your opinion, ethical?
What extensions of this experiment can you see for science and research? In other words, what do you think it proved?

7. SPE and Psychological Models
Which of our psychoanalytical models did you think of as you read about this experiment? Why? What did the experiment do to prove/disprove or change the models?
Maslow
Bronfenbrenner
Kohlberg
Freud

8. SPE and Lord of the Flies
What connections can you make between the design of this study and the plight of the boys on the island?
What THEMES from the study results are similar to those being explored in LOTF?

9. Reflection (#2)
Consider both the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) and the plot of LOTF for this reflection. In the first paragraph, react to the SPE. What are your feelings on this research? What do you feel that it proves? What did you find shocking about it (or what did not surprise you at all?). In the second paragraph, write about at least one connection you can make between the SPE and the ideas that we have explored in LOTF. Be specific and provide evidence from your notes or from the text.

10. Interactive Reflection Journal Items
Chapter Questions
“The Hollow Men” and TP-CASTT Analysis Sheet
Reflection #1 (On psychoanalytical models)
Reflection #2 (On SPE and LOTF)
Upcoming: Reflection #3 (Character Analysis)
All will be due on the final day of our study of LOTF, tentatively set as 2/28/14.