Lord of the Flies William Golding S4 National 5 Prose Study

1. Lord of the Flies William Golding S4 National 5 Prose Study

2. Learning Intentions We are learning to: Success Criteria I can identify language that infers elements of setting and characterisation within Chapter 1. • Extract information regarding setting and characterisation. Achieving this S.C. means you are on target!

3. 5 minutes for this task! Chapter Summary • In your groups, create a chapter summary using 5 bullet points. Ensure you include the vital information! Be concise!

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5. Chapter 1 – The Sound of the Shell • A group of schoolchildren are marooned on a desert island. • Piggy and Ralph are first on the scene. • The most impressive entrance is made by a group of choirboys under Jack Merridew, head chorister. • One of the choirboys, Simon, faints. • Ralph is elected as chief. • Ralph, Jack and Simon decide to explore the island.

6. 17 minutes for this task! Setting • Golding does not provide a map for his readers to show us what the island is like. We learn about the setting as the boys move about the island exploring their new surroundings. • Make a list of quotations that describe the island in the first chapter. • Structure this as a visualiser (mind-map). Take a full page or even a double page as you will refer to this throughout your study!

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8. It was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore. On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree-clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail. There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion. The boys surveyed all this, then looked out to sea. They were high up and the afternoon had advanced; the view was not robbed of sharpness by mirage.

9. "That's a reef. A coral reef. I've seen pictures like that." The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished. Inside was peacock water, rocks and weeds showing as in an aquarium; outside was the dark blue of the sea. The tide was running so that long streaks of foam tailed away from the reef and for a moment they felt that the boat was moving steadily astern.

10. 5 minutes for this task! Ralph and Piggy • Ralph and Piggy are the first people we meet in the novel and are very different in background and character. • We can see this in their contrasting reactions to being stranded on the island: Ralph’s excitement suggests he is adventurous and fearless ‘…the delight of a realised ambition overcame him…“No grown-ups!”’ Piggy repeats himself, indicating he is very anxious ‘“They’re all dead,” said Piggy, “an’ this is an island. Nobody don’t know we’re here. Your dad don’t know, nobody don’t know…’’’ • Now select two more quotes which show us Piggy and Ralph’s feelings about their situation.

11. Feedback • Ralph – ‘…he dreamed pleasantly’; ‘Here at last was the imagined but never fully realised place leaping into life.’ • Piggy – says repeatedly “We got to do something”; reference made to ‘Piggy’s ill-omened talk’.

12. INFERENCE: Find the quotations that convey these elements of characterisation Ralph’s profile Character Appearance Confident, seems to be a good leader. Tall, blonde hair, athletic. Background Father a Naval officer. Relationshipswith others Piggy and others look up to him, friendly with Jack.

13. INFERENCE: Find the quotations that convey these elements of characterisation Piggy’s profile Character Appearance Intelligent and sensible – teaches Ralph how to blow the conch, suggests making a list of names. Fat, asthmatic and short- sighted. Background Orphan, lives with aunt. Different accent to others. Relationshipswith others Fears Jack, is taunted by others because of nickname.

14. INFERENCE: Find the quotations that convey these elements of characterisation Jack’s profile Character Appearance Bossy and rude – orders the choir about. Thin, red hair and freckles, mean expression. Background Leader of the choirboys. Relationshipswith others Dominates the choir. Likes Ralph but takes an immediate dislike to Piggy.

15. Task: Create a poster that conveys the characterisation of: • Ralph Piggy Jack Find quotations that INFER elements of characterisation We are learning to: use inference to improve knowledge of characterisation

16. Foreshadowing • It is a technique of suggesting to the reader that something will happen later in the story. • This is usually something bad, and therefore foreshadowing creates a sense of tension and anticipation. At the end of Chapter One, Jack has failed to kill the pig: ‘He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict.’ • What does this tell us about Jack? • What could this event be foreshadowing?

17. Feedback • This event foreshadows Jack’s increasingly savage behaviour throughout the novel, beginning when he first succeeds in killing a pig.