WNB: Article of the Week - "The Problem with Polls." Students read, annotated, and responded to the article in their notebooks.
Students revisited the two articles from Thursday ("Why Boys Become Vicious" and "The Compact of Civil Society") and wrote down three questions or "a-ha" moments from the pieces. They then moved around the room and shared their ideas with other students, switching notes as they changed partners. We then connected the ideas from the articles to Lord of the Flies.
Students recalled the symbols game from last week and chose one symbol and interpretation to explain using evidence from the novel. This activity segued into a discussion on allegory. After learning the definition, students gave examples of allegories that they're familiar with, then we talked about a few other stories as allegories: Adam and Eve, "A Rose for Emily,"Animal Farm, and Aesop's fables. Students read Terrible Things and considered which group of Holocaust victims was represented by the animals in the story. All of this led to an activity that examines the characters from and the story of Lord of the Flies as allegory. We will finish this work tomorrow.
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