1. Lord of the Flies Discussion, Day 1: Focus—Setting and Mood Tuesday, December 2, 2014

2. One Question Quiz, Ch. 1 Where did Jack, Ralph, and Simon go and why?

3. Establishing Setting The boys have been stranded on an island. Describe it to us in your own words. Find three pieces of evidence to support your answer.

4. Just to be sure… Make some inferences: What are the “creepers”? What is “the scar”? What caused it? Support each inference with at least three pieces of textual evidence.

5. BONUS There’s one hidden clue in this chapter that tells you when this story takes place. Can you find the clue and make the appropriate inference? First person to put his/her finger on it and share with the class will be handsomely rewarded.

6. Text Analysis: Setting and Mood Identify the mood (reader’s feeling) of each of the following passages. Justify your answer with evidence from the text. Passage 1: The Jungle Passage 2: The Shore Passage 3: The Lagoon Passage 4: The Mountain Passages 5a and 5b: The Forest

7. Passage 1: The Jungle “All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch- like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. […] The under growth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering” (Golding 7).

8. Passage 2: The Shore “The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar” (Golding 10).

9. Passage 3: The Lagoon “Here and there, little breezes crept over the polished waters beneath the haze of heat. When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright winged things in the shade” (Golding 15).

10. Passage 4: The Mountain “The three boys began to scramble up. Some unknown force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so that they lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other. The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block; and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers. Where pink cliffs rose out of the ground there were often narrow tracks winding upwards. They could edge along them, deep in the plant world, their faces to the rock” (Golding 26).

11. Passage 5a: The Forest “They were in the beginnings of the thick forest, plonking with weary feet on a track, when they heard the noises—squeakings—and the hard strike of hoofs on a path. As they pushed forward the squeaking increased till it became a frenzy. They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror. Its voice was thin, needle-sharp, and insistent” (Golding 31).

12. Passage 5b: The Forest “The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. The piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth” (Golding 31).

13. Text Analysis: Setting and Mood Check for Understanding Choose one of the following questions to answer on your own. 1. How is the mood of the text influenced by the setting? 2. Where does the mood shift? Why is this shift significant? 3. Where do you see foreshadowing? What’s its purpose? 4. What predictions can you make regarding the characters? Regarding what might happen later in the text?

14. Remaining Classtime Would you like to: 1.Listen to your teacher read. 2.Read in small groups.* 3.Read on your own. *Note: If you choose this option and I see that your group is off-task, your group will be reading independently.