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Focus for 3rd Quarter:
Big Ideas:
XX human nature
XX chaos
XX civilization vs. savagery
XX understanding the power of fear
XX dealing with change
XX civilization as structure
Themes
Understanding human nature facilitates coping with
XX crisis, chaos, and change.
Crisis creates vulnerability.
To solve problems, order must be dynamic and
XX self- organizing.
Knowing the power of fear can empower you to
XX make better decisions.
Whenever groups of people coexist, there will be
XX a struggle for power.
It is better to examine the consequences of a decision
XX before it is made, than to discover them afterwards.
as per ELA 11 Michigan Merit Curriculum Course Requirements, Page xx
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Quotations
"The boys were below the age of overt sex, for I did not want to complicate the issue with that relative triviality. They did not have to fight for survival, for I did not want a Marxist exegesis. If disaster came, it was not to come through the exploitation of one class by another. It was to rise, simply and solely out of the nature of the brute." Golding, William. "Lord of the Flies as Fable." Readings on Lord of the Flies. Ed. Bruno. Pg 42.
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race." Don Marquis.
"The real world demands that we learn to cope with chaos, that we understand what motivates humans, that we adopt strategies and behaviors that lead to order, not more chaos… When chaos erupts, it not only destroys the current structure, it also creates the conditions for new order to emerge." Margaret Wheatley
Of the four emotions "Fear is the most potent. In a skilled surgeon's hands, Fear cuts through the layers of fat around a reader's brain, jabbing and needling until, trembling with the unquenchable desire built on frustration, the recipient of your Fear message grabs his pen or his phone to soothe his fever." Herschell Gordon Lewis
William Faulkner's advice to writers: "He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice… The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past."
William Faulkner Nobel Banquet Speech, 1949
Teacher Resources
Websites for Think Alouds
School Discovery Lesson Plans
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Week 6:
"The Destructors"
by Graham Greene
page 948
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Week 7:
Paper:
Why does a peaceful, orderly society break down into violence and chaos?
Be sure to:
Underline your thesis
Heavily reference Lord of the Flies
Use outside sources
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Week 8:
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
by Oscar Wilde (link)
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