6th and 7th hour English 10 classes:  There is something you might want to take a look at on Google Classroom.

Make up work needs to be completed and submitted to me by 2:40 on Monday, 5/15.  After that, none will be accepted as all attention will be given to final exams.

All extra credit is posted in Skyward.

Reminder:  If you have an A going into the final exam, you will not need to prepare for the final reads.  Your final will be a survey style assessment of your experience in class for the year.  I may ask you about Fast Food Nation too.

If you have a B or lower going into the final and want a refresher on how grades will be calculated, click on the Semester Grading Breakdown link in the pages menu.

This week: Final exam preparation for all classes

Final Exam: 50 questions.
Cold reads: 3 or 4 poems.  1 very short story. 1 "other" piece

Warm read: "And the Moon be Still as Bright" from Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I have copies you can borrow or read in class.  It is also very easy to find online.

Fast Food Nation

I am finishing up grades this week.  If you are missing assignments that will obviously affect your grade in terms of knowing what you are going into the final with.

Vocab Essay 13 will not be a stand alone grade.  Rather, it will replace your previous low vocab essay grade.

The extra credit window is closed.  That will be the last thing added to the grade book before the exam.

Bring in your textbooks!!! We are done with them, so make life easier on yourself and get it taken care of early.  Bring any novels you still have checked out.

10H
Tuesday and the block days this week have been dedicated to finishing the Lord of the Flies test.

Tomorrow is the cutoff for extra credit turn in.

Next week we will spend time on FFN, as well as introduce the pre-reads for the final exam.

10
Finishing up missing work and completing your Heroes essay and Final Independent Project have been the goals for this week.

Tomorrow is the cutoff for extra credit turn in.

Next week: final push on missing work and finals prep.  Fast Food Nation will have a section on the exam, so even if you are not reading the entire book, it will benefit you to have some familiarity with it and its style.

LOF Test is tomorrow, May 2nd for all 10H students.

Ch. 10
Pg. 155: 2nd main paragraph- “Ralph climbed on to the platform carefully…”  Explain the significance of the imagery in this paragraph.  What about diction and syntax?
Pg. 156- 157: The acknowledgement of Simon’s death and its significance.
Pg. 159: The symbolism of the balanced rock in relation to both its intended purpose and its relevance to society
Pg. 160: How Jack uses Simon’s death to his advantage
Pg. 162: The duality of the fire as both a rescue signal and as a comforting element
Pg. 166-168: The raid and how it is perceived by each faction.  Also, the significance of the theft of the glasses
Ch.11
Pg. 169: Piggy’s blindness and what it symbolizes in regard to the boys’ connection to civilization
Pg. 171: Piggy’s rant about what is happening.  The acknowledgement of death and his last ditch effort at preserving civilized morality
Pg. 180-181: What it represents both immediately to the boys and in the arc of violence that has taken place over the course of the story.  (Disappearance of the littlun in fire, Harming a pig, Killing a pig for food, Harming a boy, Killing a pig and making a ceremony out of it, Killing Simon as a group with a mob mentality, An individual killing an individual in cold blood and for pleasure)
Ch. 12
The big hunt and Ralph’s transition from bystander, to hunter, to prey
The irony of the island fire.  Jack’s role as savior/hero in that he gets them rescued, and he uses Ralph’s method to do it while trying to kill Ralph.
The irony of who rescues them and what he says to them (last page).

LOF 7-10 Guiding Questions


1. When Ralph and Jack see the “beast” on top of the mountain, why does Ralph say it “squats by the fire?”


2. When Simon says “I think we ought to climb the mountain” in Ch. 8, what does this foreshadow (be specific)?


3. What does Piggy’s suggestion that they move the fire down to the beach show about the boys in regard to the presence of the beast?


4. If Jack and the beast have the most in common due to their total reliance on the boys’ fears and insecurities, which boy has the most in common with the LOF itself and why?


5. Write the original chant. Write it as it has changed in Ch. 9.


6. With Simon’s death, human life has been taken. However, one could argue that it was done in the heat of the moment and was an accident. What is the next logical step for the author in the deterioration of civilization?


7. When the hunters raid the camp, what do they take and why?


8. What does Piggy think they wanted to take and why?


9. What prophesy from the LOF(pig’s head on a stick) has come true?

10. What aspect of human nature would Golding and Stephen King say is definitely present by the end of Ch. 10?