Vacation HW for Lord of the Flies

1. Read through Chapter 6 "Beast From Air".
2. Find at least two passages (passage = quote approximately a paragraph long) on your focus character.
   Write an OCASA journal, noting other character's reactions or interactions with yours; your character's actions; your character's dialogue; and the author's description of your character. 
3. If there is a lack of relevant quotations pertaining to your character in the chapter, choose passages that deal with topics of power, control, and/or abuse to discuss.

1.Log on to your google docs account. 
2. Click "Create," and choose "Collection."
3. Name the collection your LAST NAME, FIRST NAME.  For example, I would call mine Alexis, Shannon.
4. After creating the collection, go to the home page, and right-click the collection folder.  Select "Share" from the options.

5. Type in my email address, then click "Done."  (See the pics below to guide you through the steps).


From now on, all of the papers you write for me need to be moved into that collection folder by the due date.  I will grade them from there. 

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Questions for "The Bear that Wasn't" Discussion

• What does the title The Bear That Wasn’t mean? Why didn’t the Factory officials recognize the Bear for what he was? Why did it become harder and harder for him to maintain his identity as he moved through the bureaucracy of the Factory? What is Tashlin suggesting about the relationship between an individual and society? About the way a person’s identity is defined? About the way powerful individuals and groups shape the identity of those with less power and authority?
  

• How does our need to be a part of a group affect our actions? Why is it so difficult for a person to go against the group? Have you ever experienced a similar problem to that of the Bear? How did you deal with it? Were you able to maintain your independence? How difficult was it to do so?

Other Homework:  

• Read pages 9-30 in Voices of the Holocaust.  For the "creating context" section, take 2-column notes, where the left side is main ideas and the right side is for details and/or examples about that idea.  For each reading after that, make a DJ by picking a passage--a longer quotation of 4-8 sentences, approximately--and analyzing it.  Be sure to expand your ideas beyond summary and reader response to include some thoughts about the larger significance and implications of the text.  Due Friday 09/30.

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The Bear That Wasn't (reading)

The Bear That Wasn't (reading)