modern novel starter describe your perfect beach what could you hear? what could you smell? what...

Modern Novel

Starter

Describe your perfect beach

•What could you hear?

•What could you smell?

•What could you taste?

•What could you feel?

•What could you see?

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Learning Objectives

You mustmust personalize the novel situation of being stranded on an island and work collaboratively.

You shouldshould learn briefly about the author’s life and the basic plotline of the novel.

You couldcould learn about and be able to identify foreshadowing and the point of view of third person omniscient.

Children playingWrite down 5 emotions you feelRemember– if you don’t feel something, make it

up!

You mustmust personalize the novel situation of being stranded on an island and work collaboratively.You shouldshould learn briefly about the author’s life and the basic plotline of the novel.You couldcould learn about and be able to identify foreshadowing and the point of view of third person omniscient.

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The riotWrite down 5 emotions you feelRemember– if you don’t feel something,make it up!


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Now combine the two – children rioting

How does that make you feel?

REALLY think about it.

Imagine an 8, 9, 10 year old fighting for their life, stabbing other people, killing, seeing dead

bodies, fighting for their lives.

Grim.You mustmust personalize the novel situation of being stranded on an island and work collaboratively.You shouldshould learn briefly about the author’s life and the basic plotline of the novel.You couldcould learn about and be able to identify foreshadowing and the point of view of third person omniscient.

Survivor

In groups of 4 you have a list of 20 items.

You can only keep 10.

You must write your 10 items out in order of importance, as a group


Make a Plan of Action

Assign a role for each person: Who will be leader?Who will cook, clean, hunt?

How will resources be shared?Will you look for help or wait to be found?


William Golding• Born in 1911• Studied at Oxford University• Worked as an actor, producer, writer & teacher• Lieutenant of a small rocket ship in Royal Navy in

WW2. He destroyed German ships and shelled German troops


• Horrified by war - it revealed a dark side to people and showed their capacity and ability to harm fellow people, particularly the Nazi concentration camps, Japanese prisoners and British & American civilian bombings

• Justified – all in the ‘right’ but Golding questioned this smug assumption


• Golding learned: all human nature is savage and unforgiving

• He knew that even the 'goodies' can become 'baddies'.


• World War 2 ended in 1945

• The United Nations was set up after the war to try to ensure that a global conflict never happened again

• In 1954, when Lord of the Flies was published, the threat of a nuclear war was still very real

• It was entirely plausible to the novel's original audience that an atom bomb really could destroy civilization


Desert Islands

• Most imaginary desert islands are peaceful paradises where the shipwrecked traveler manages to continue living pretty much as before - think of Robinson Crusoe, your descriptions and Desert Island Discs!


A Happy Story• Coral Island by RM Ballantyne, published in 1857,

100 years before Golding's book:three young British boys are shipwrecked on a desert island and have to survive without any adults. Brave and resourceful, they thoroughly enjoy their experience and there is never a hint of trouble. As one of the characters, Peterkin, says,“There was indeed no note of discord whatever in that symphony we played together on that sweet coral island.”


• From his experience as a teacher, Golding knew that the idyllic life of Coral Island could never exist in real life.

• He set out to write a novel that showed his ideas about the darker side of human nature starting from the same basis:boys stranded on a desert island, away from all civilising influences.

Lord of the Flies was the result.You mustmust personalize the novel situation of being stranded on an island and work collaboratively.You shouldshould learn briefly about the author’s life and the basic plotline of the novel.You couldcould learn about and be able to identify foreshadowing and the point of view of third person omniscient.

Mini Essay Question

• Use your notes to answer this question:

What inspired Golding to write Lord of the Flies?

Write as fully as you can


Learning Objectives

You mustmust personalize the novel situation of being stranded on an island and work collaboratively.

You shouldshould learn briefly about the author’s life and the basic plotline of the novel.

You couldcould learn about and be able to identify foreshadowing and the point of view of third person omniscient.

Plot Summary

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast.

The boys' delicate sense of order fades, and their childish fears are transformed into something deeper and more primitive.

Their games take on a horrible significance, and before long the well-behaved party of schoolboys has turned into a tribe of faceless, murderous savages.


Themes: Write these down:The main themes that run through Lord of the Flies are:•Things breaking down•War•Violence•Relationships•The Island•Language

We will look at these more as we read and at the end of the bookYou mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Things Breaking DownGolding himself wrote of his novel:

“The boys try to construct a civilisation on the island; but it breaks down in blood and terror because the boys are suffering from the terrible disease of being human.”William Golding

The central theme in Lord of the Flies is that of things breaking down. This is shown in a number of ways. Violence replaces peace, friends turn into enemies, life ends in savage death. Everything degenerates.

You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

War• War is a running theme in the novel, starting

from plane the boys were travelling in.

• The boys are on the island because the plane that was evacuating them from Britain during a fictional nuclear war was attacked.

• The civilization from which they were trying to escape is being destroyed.


ViolenceViolence is always present. It starts as a game, but grows more horrific throughout the novel.


Relationships

All the friendships and good relationships on the island break down, either through bullying and violence or death.


The Island

The island slowly degrades as the story goes on, reflecting the break down of the boys' relationships

The island is first seen as like paradise, too good to be true

The island is soon found to contain many dangers -coconuts fall from the trees and just miss injuring Roger, the sun burns them, and the isolation is a curse.You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Language

The language used by the boys progressively degenerates.

At the start of the novel the youngest boys are called small boys. They become little'uns, littl'uns and finally littluns.


Rules

Who or what rules your life?

Write 10 rules that dictate your life, that you feel you must obey or there are consequences.

It could be a school rule, a law, a rule at home…


Foreshadowing

Write this down: Foreshadowing is the presentation in a work of literature of hints and clues that tip the reader off as to what is to come later in the work


Third-Person Omniscient

Write this down: The third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which the reader is presented the story by a narrator with an overarching, godlike perspective, seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story, regardless of the presence of certain characters, including everything all of the characters are thinking and feeling.


Chapter 1

As we read chapter 1, find examples of foreshadowing and third-person omniscient narrative

Chapter 1: The Sound of The Shell Vocabulary

1.___Reef a. A great lustre or brightness.2.___Asthma b. A shallow lake.3.___Foliage c. Raised, standing out in relief.4.___Effulgence d. A shell used as a trumpet.5.___Lagoon e. A chain of rocks at or near the

surface of water.6.___Conch f. Leaves.7.___Embossed g. Chronic respiration problem,

characterized by wheezing.You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Question

1. What does Piggy call his glasses?


Specs


Question

2. Who carries a knife?


Jack


Question

3. Piggy can’t run or blow the conch on account of his…You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Asthma


Question

4. What color is Simon’s hair?


Black


Question

5. Who faints in the sand?


Simon


Question

6. Who is the secretive, mysterious looking boy?You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Roger


Question

7. What is Jack’s last name?


Merridew


Jeopardy Questions

8. Who becomes chief?


Ralph


Question

9. What are the boys eating?


Fruit


Question

10. What is the name of the shell Ralph blows to call an assembly?You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Conch


Chapter 1: The Sound of The Shell Questions

1. What is the “scar”? /22. How did the boys get to the island? /23. What happened to England? /24. Why did the boys choose Ralph as a leader? Who would you have chosen and why? /45. Give an example of foreshadowing. /26. What is the point of view of the narrator? Prove it: How do you know? /3You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Foreshadowing

Write a descriptive passage explaining what is creepy about this house

Foreshadowing• Hinting to the reader that there are bad things to come

Foreshadowing Examples“eyes that proclaimed no devil”-Early signal that Ralph is inherently good

“they saw that the darkness was not all shadow…the creature was a party of boys”-Arrival of the choir – termed as ‘creature’ hints at the sinister/evil

“The great rock loitered…smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest…the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster…”like a bomb”- Island is described very prettily – lots of references to pink, icing highlights unreality of setting. Boys disturb perfection – man destroying nature – monsters of civilization – the evil that destroys


Choose 1 of 2 topics:

1.You have just arrived on the island. What will you do for the first week?

2.If you were on the island which 3 personal items would you bring and why? Which people in your life would you bring?


The IslandSPEAKING OUT LOUD ALL AT ONCEChoose an area in the room where you can see a variety of different objects/pieces of furniture - go and sit in it.


Describe not only what the area looks like but also what it feels like to the touch - rough, smooth, bumpy, cold, hot, wet, sticky? Describe the smell in that area. For example - the smell of wood, polish, school dinners, sweat, musty? Describe any sounds you can hear in that area of the room. For example - breathing, tapping, dripping, talking?

Read your page and write down any details about the island to share with the class

What does is look like?What ‘things’ are on the island?What does is sound like?Are there any animals/people?


Read through once – remember detail‘The shore was fledged with palm trees. They 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 course grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coco-nuts and the palm saplings. And always, almost visible, was the heat. The sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square rocks, were fainter. The deep sea breaking miles away.He picked himself to the edge of the lagoon and stood looking down into the water. It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral. A school of tiny, glittering fish flicked hither and thither. He plunged in. The water was warmer than his blood and he might have been swimming in a huge bath.


Memory Experiment:

How many details can you remember?

What did they see? hear? feel? smell?


Lord of the flies is descriptive

Golding uses descriptive language and imagery to paint a picture in the readers head.


How does the island change as the day progresses from morning to night?

Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, the coral reef and the few, stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart. Sometimes land loomed where there was no land. At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like an angry eye. Then, at the end of the afternoon, the mirage subsided and the horizon became level and blue. When the sun sank, darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher.’You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

The IslandSPEAKING OUT LOUD ALL AT ONCEChoose an area in the room where you can see a variety of different objects/pieces of furniture - go and sit in it. Describe not only what the area looks like but also what it feels like to the touch - rough, smooth, bumpy, cold, hot, wet, sticky? Describe the smell in that area. For example - the smell of wood, polish, school dinners, sweat, musty? Describe any sounds you can hear in that area of the room. For example - breathing, tapping, dripping, talking?You mustmust demonstrate and understanding of the themes in Lord of the FliesYou shouldshould recognise themes and literacy features in Chapter 1 of Lord of the FliesYou couldcould analyse Golding’s thoughts behind Lord of the Flies through comparison of Chapter 1 with The Coral Island

Read Chapter 2

You will be drawing a map of the island so make sure you concentrate on the description


Make A Map

“The very confusion of the island, the, as it were, growing confusion of the island, is a sort of image of the growing confusion in the boys’ minds. They are lost in more ways than one”[In other words, they don’t have a clue what they are doing!] -William Golding


The island is not clearly laid out in the book. Golding attributes this to the fact that the boys themselves don’t

know the landscape well. Do you visualize it as you read?

Today you are going to create a map in your groups.1. Draw a map in which you try to show the layout of

the island. Label the following locations:• The fire• The beach• The crash site• Where they hunt• Where they gather• Where they collect water• Where Ralph’s group lives• Where Jack’s tribe lives• Where the Beastie lives

2. You could also include the sites of any key events in the novel, e.g where the conch was found.

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