- Journal: How is Jack threatening Ralph's authority?
- Read highlights from chapter 8, which can be considered the most important chapter in the book. fear of "The Beast" weakens the boy's impulse toward civilized behavior. Jack, behaving from the savage, primal side of human behavior splits off from Ralph's group. The scene where the hunter's kill the sow marks the moment when the last remnants of civilized behavior is washed from them in a kind of baptism of blood. Leaving the pig head as an offering to The Beast is religious in nature: the Beast has been turned into a god that lives on the mountain.
- Simon, in a state of heightened sensitivity, possibly due to fever, has a 'conversation' with the pig head, naming in "The Lord of the Flies." Possibly, the head symbolizes their fear and brutality, their Beast... the flies symbolize the boys.
- HW: Make sure reading logs for chapters 7 and 8 are complete. Logs for chapters 5 through 8 will be checked for two major grades. We will read chapter 9 in class together.
- Started reading "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
- Three new vocab words were introduced. The whole list at this point is reproduced here for students to catch up.
- HW: Write everything which can be recalled from the reading so far in journals.
Political: of, pertaining to, or involving the state or its government:
Self-evident: Requiring no proof or explanation.
Unalienable: Not to be separated, given away, or taken away
Despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny.
Parallelism: the repeated use of phrases, clauses, or sentences in structure or meaning to strengthen an argument
Calvinism: emphasizing predestination, the sovereignty of God, the supreme authority of the Scriptures
Enlightenment: philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.
Romanticism: a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality
Anecdote: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Profound: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; great, important meaningThesis: A statement that is maintained by argument
Annotate: to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily means one thing is used to mean another, thus making a comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).
Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’, as in "she is like a rose."
Conundrum - (noun)
1. a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun
2. an intricate and difficult problem
Ambiguity: doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning
Precedent (noun)-
1) an earlier occurrence of something similar
2) something that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a similar future act or statement
Pandemic (adj.)--spread over an entire country, continent or world.
Cynical: Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others; Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness
Satire: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, wit or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
