Kate Ostrander

Activity Plan -Lord of the Flies Frontloading Activity- Gallery Walk

Aim: This lesson will start before the class begins reading the novel. The students will
have been asked to bring in two images one that portrays something they consider
evil/savage and one that they consider good/civilized. This will introduce the students to
thinking in simplified terms of good and evil and to have them consider the coexistence
of evil/savagery and good/civilization in our world.
Materials Needed: Student examples of good and evil pictures, blackboard, tape,
construction paper, journals.
To: What if situation discussion as introduction to the novel. What if you were
stranded on an island what would you do? Could you survive? How would you act?
Discuss the theory of Darwins survival of the fittest and the concept of human
morality/free choice.
With: Have the students tape their good/civilized pictures and their evil/savage pictures
onto a piece of construction paper and write a small caption about what the picture is
depicting. Have students tape their good pictures on the left wall of the classroom and
their evil pictures on the right wall of the classroom. Students will reconvene and break
into two groups. Half the class will spend five minutes perusing the good pictures and
taking notes on the three most influential ones to them. The other half will spend five
minutes with the evil pictures taking notes on the three most influential ones to them.
After five minutes the groups will switch sides and do the same activity with the other
pictures. After ten minutes the class will reconvene and discuss their findings with the
class. Volunteers will be asked to share their reactions to pictures and why they were
affected by specific ones. Students will also be asked to share why they provided the
images they did for the class activity.
By: To be done for homework First Journal Entry for the Novel
Students will write up their reactions to three of the good/civilized images and three of
the evil/savage images. They will discuss why they were influenced by them and why
did they consider them the best representations of both sides. They will also try and
discuss how each can exist simultaneously in the same world.