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Lord of The Flies
Lord of The Flies
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Done With
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On the Edge of Survival
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Answer the following questions:
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Summary
Take quiz individually. Worksheet may be completed in groups or individually.
1. Take quiz.
2. Fill out the worksheet
3. If time, begin character evolution paper.
4. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/les
son-docs/30867CharacterEvolution.pdf
• http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/les
son-docs/30867Rubric.pdf
When 90% of class is done, we will watch
summary recap.
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William Golding
Author
1954
• As Lord of the Flies was being written…
• In 1951 Golding was living in Salisbury with his
wife Ann, and two children, David and Judy.
Golding and Ann read to their children and the
books were often island-based adventure
stories. While sitting in front of the fire in their
flat Golding said ‘Wouldn’t it be a good idea if I
wrote a book about children on an island,
children who would behave in the way children
really would behave?’ This idea grew into Lord
of the Flies.
• The novel was rejected by a number of
publishers before finally being published by
Faber and Faber in 1954.
• (Taken from Golding’s personal website)
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Biography Continued.
Born 1911 Died 1993 War Service
• His father, Alex, was a schoolmaster, while his • Golding spent six years in the Royal Navy on a
mother, Mildred, was active in the Women's boat, except for a seven-month stint in New
Suffrage Movement. Since the age of seven, York, where he assisted Lord Cherwell at the
Golding had been writing stories, and at the age Naval Research Establishment.
of twelve he attempted to write a novel. • During World War II, he fought battleships at the
• After graduating from Oxford in 1935, Golding sinking of the Bismarck, and also fended off
continued the family tradition by becoming a submarines and planes. Lieutenant Golding was
schoolmaster in Salisbury, Wiltshire. His even placed in command of a rocket-launching
teaching career was interrupted in 1940, craft.
however, with the outbreak of World War II • Of his World War II experiences, Golding has
(1939–45). Lieutenant Golding served five years said, “I began to see what people were capable
in the British Royal Navy and saw active duty in of doing. Anyone who moved through those
the North Atlantic, commanding a rocket years without understanding that man produces
launching craft. evil as a bee produces honey, must have been
• (Taken from Encyclopedia of World Biography) blind or wrong in the head.”
• Taken from www.biography.com
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Britain in WWII
How did war impact the country?
• The British Army, an all-volunteer force until
1939, was small in comparison to its enemies at
the start of the Second World War in 1939, as
it had been in the First World War. By the end of
the Second World War 2.9 million men had
served in the British Army,with some 300,000
Military Deaths and 376,239 wounded.
• From 7 September 1940, London was
systematically bombed by the Luftwaffe for 56
out of the following 57 days and nights. Most
notable was a large daylight attack against
London on 15 September.
• The Hull Blitz was the bombing campaign that
targeted the English port city of Kingston upon
Hull by the German Luftwaffe during the
Second World War. Large-scale attacks took
place on several nights throughout March 1941,
resulting in over 200 deaths.
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Did WWII affect the author?
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Comparison
Civilization Vs. Savagery
Civilization Savagery
Team 1
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Symbolism
• http://staff.camas.wednet.edu/blogs/chslovre/files/2012/12/Flies-symbols-allusions.pdf
What do think the following symbolize?
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Next Steps
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