Lord of the Flies Journals Portfolio Cover Sheet

Lord of the Flies Journals Portfolio Cover Sheet 2015 Name:______Criteria for full credit:  Entry was done on time and has a stamp (stamp guarantees on time but not full credit)  a ¾ page journal entry responding to the chapter  analyze the choices the author made when writing the text  engage with it in a personal way  show your appreciation for the Golding’s use of literary conventions and the deep significance of each.

Date Chapter # Journal Q # for Points Due this entry Earned /10 11/25 1 11/30 2 11/30 3 11/30 4 12/1 5 12/2 6 12/3 7 12/4 8 12/7 9 12/7 10 12/8 11 12/8 12

Questions: 1. Discuss the oppositions, tensions, contrasts and/or shifts in the chapter. 2. How does Golding use the chapter’s setting and to what effect? It may be beneficial to pay particular attention to landscape and geography in your response. 3. How and why does Golding create a particular mood with his diction in a quoted passage from the chapter? 4. Write a literary commentary on the chapter. Identify a dominant literary convention and share a few examples of how Golding uses that convention to some effect. 5. Discuss the effect of a minor character on the plot. 6. Analyze the point of view and narrative voice Golding uses in the chapter. 7. Identify and analyze the significance of a symbol, motif, or image pattern Golding presents. 8. Discuss the significance a pair of literary foils you see Golding developing. 9. Identify, analyze, and evaluate a theme or moral Golding presents. 10. What do you love or hate about the chapter/book/character? How does it speak to you personally? (This sort of general response can only be done twice during the novel.) 11. Speculative writing: Start with questions you have about the chapter. These should be deep questions… things you really don’t get. Write the questions at the top of your page. Now write…trying to answer the questions. Speculate. Maybe…or perhaps…or it could mean…Keep writing for ten minutes or until you’ve answered (or speculated about) all the questions. Now stop and write for a few minutes about what you learned.