Here is the rubric for the Hobbes and Rousseau Discuss Lord of the Flies project.

This is an example of the Lord of the Flies project that English I Honors students are working on. It has an example of both what to do and what not to do.

First, second, and seventh periods worked on sensory language in the excerpt from Maya Angelou’s  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. We paid special attention to the following passage:
“It was the best of times and the worst of times . . .” Her voice slid in and curved down through and over the words. [...]

First, second, and seventh periods worked on vocabulary for the reading we’ll be doing tomorrow.
Fourth period had a quiz and Q&A session on the latest chapters of the novel. We ended doing work with pronouns as part of our parts of speech review.
Additionally, fourth period began working on the rubric we’ll be using to evaluate [...]

We will be reading a selection from Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings tomorrow as part of our memoir unit. As the selection is set in the Depression, we looked at the Depression a bit today and began thinking about what to expect from the piece.
Second period began wrapping up the symbolism [...]

Essential Question:
Overview: Today we went over all types of nouns, and the 4 basic principles.
Materials Distrubuted: Nothing
Homework: Read Chapters 5 and 6 LOTF. Take Vocab. quiz before Tuesday. Go over class discussion questions. Write 300 to 500 word proposal about class talking.

We went over homework, then with our groups worked on the organizer sheet. After, we broke up and went to different people and shared our ideas.
Materials Distributed: Hobbes and Rousseau Organizer Sheet
Homework

2nd Draft of Essay,
Read Chapter 3 in Lord of the Flies,
Go over Vocabulary and take quiz before Friday midnight.

Four classes, four different lessons.
First period began a unit on Shakespeare. We’ll be reading a condensed form of Much Ado About Nothing. We watched a film about Billy’s life and his use of language. Students returned to the topic of poetry briefly in order to learn what specifically blank verse is (unrhymed iambic pentameter).
Second period [...]

We had more ITBS testing today, which means we didn’t have first period.
Second period held the trials for Ralph and Jack. Ralph’s Dream Team came through for him, convincing the jury to return a “not guilty” verdict. When we meet again on Thursday, we’ll be starting Antigone, the classic (literally) Greek play by Sophocles.
Fourth and [...]

First period looked at the various rites of passage in The Giver and worked together to come up with an answer to the day’s essential question, “What is a rite of passage.”
Second period finished up Lord of the Flies. We began working on two trials that will be held Monday the next time we’ll have [...]

All classes finished up working with Mrs. Weaver-James regarding the PASS writing test that is coming up 11 March and then we went to the book fair.
Homework

First period: make sure you’ve read through chapter 8 of The Giver.
Second period: finish Lord of the Flies.

First period went over euphemisms and how they’re used in The Giver.
Second period discussed symbols in Lord of the Flies.
Fourth and sixth periods worked on Flowers for Algernon.
Homework

Second period: read chapter nine of LoF.
First, fourth, and sixth periods: test on persuasive techniques tomorrow.

First period began The Giver. We’ll be reading it in class for a day or so to settle everyone into sometimes-disorienting world of Jonas.
Second period began looking at five principles of sociology in order to understand better Lord of the Flies and the challenges facing Ralph and the boys on the island. The first two [...]

First, fourth, and sixth periods used the sentence revision techniques we’ve worked on during the week to revise their persuasive essay on capital punishment. Additionally, students began double-checking that they’d supplied three arguments in their papers, and that two of the argument methods (from authority, reason, emotion, etc) are represented.
Second period began Lord of the [...]

First period worked on combining sentences. We’ll be applying all our new editing techniques to our persuasive essays for the last couple of days of this week.
Second period began the unit on Lord of the Flies. We started by looking at allegories and the best and most famouse example in existence: Plato’s “Allegory of the [...]