Monday, September 17, 2007

9-17/9-18 Monsters?


Lesson:
We took a vocab test and a YIRTB quiz. If absent, make sure you make these up.
If absent, answer the following journal prompts:
What are your earliest memories of monsters?
What kinds of monsters captured your imagination?
What was the source of your monsters?
What is it about monsters that attracts and repels us?
What do you know about monsters from other cultures?
Do humans need monsters?
Can people be monsters? How do they become this?

We discussed the beast in Lord of the Flies.
If absent, look up Maslow's Hierarchy of needs and answer these questions.

Which do you feel you need to be on this scale to have a society?
Where are different characters at on the needs scale?
Ralph
Jack
Piggy
Simon
Roger

We then went over the Power Struggle Story assignment. It can be found on the assignments page.

Homework:
Brainstorm five ideas for a power struggle story and write three one paragraph beginnings.
Read Ch 7 & 8
Study Vocab 5-8

Projects:
Four Great Mind Paragraphs
DUE NEXT CLASS!!!!