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QUICKWRITES. instructions. Write “Quickwrites” at the top of the page. Draw a line halfway down by the hole, splitting your page in two. You have 5 minutes to write ½ a page. I’ll collect them when we’ve filled up a single sheet with 4 Quickwrites.
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instructions • Write “Quickwrites” at the top of the page. • Draw a line halfway down by the hole, splitting your page in two. • You have 5 minutes to write ½ a page. • I’ll collect them when we’ve filled up a single sheet with 4 Quickwrites. • Full credit will be earned for ½ a page of serious thoughts on the subject.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Pig (cha 3) Stranded (cha 1) Mastery (cha 4) Ass-mar (cha 1) Civilization (cha 4) Conch (cha 1) Mask (cha 4) Piggy (cha 1) Metal (cha 4) Blade (cha 1) Ship (cha 4 Crash (cha 2) Chant (cha 4) Beastie (cha 2) Broken (cha 4) Signal (cha 2) Structure (cha 5) Glasses (cha 2) Dreams (cha 5) Jack (cha 3) Sense (cha 5) Shelter (cha 3) Animals (cha 5) Littluns(cha 3) Grownups (cha 5)
CONTENTS continued… Follow the Leader (cha 8) Awake (cha 6) Vote (cha 8) Not Seeing (cha 6) Tribe (cha 8) Power (cha 6) Lord of the Flies (cha 8) Fire (cha 6) Gift (cha 8) Habit (cha 6) Silence (cha 9) Condemned (cha 6) Blind (cha 9) Hope (cha 6) Party Time (cha 9) Hunting (cha 6) Simon (cha 9) Kill It (cha 6) Murder (cha 10) Brave (cha 6) Leader (cha 10) Dark (cha 7) Sucks to Ass-Mar (cha 10) Hunters (cha 7) Defense(cha 10)
CONTENTS continued… Think Deeply (cha 10) Lost (cha 11) Assembly (cha 11) Fight (cha 11) Beast (cha 11) Better (cha 11) The Lord (cha 12) Hunted (cha 12) Smoked Out (cha 12) Mirror (cha 12)
Stranded CHAPTER 1 After their plane crashes, the boys are stranded on an island. What does it feel like to be stranded? What do you think it must have been like that first day on the island? What feelings would they all be having? What fears would be rising inside them?
Ass-Mar CHAPTER 1 What do you think it’s like for Piggy to have asthma? The other boys say, “Sucks to your ass-mar.” Does it suck to have asthma? What about other health conditions? How should the other boys treat a boy like Piggy with a health condition?
Conch CHAPTER 1 What do you think about this conch shell that they find? About the way they call their assemblies? What about their rule that you can’t speak unless you have the conch? Will that work? What might not work about that rule?
Piggy CHAPTER 1 Piggy is the only boy who is given a nickname, and even he didn’t want to be called that. Why do you think the boys gave him the nickname he least wanted? What do you think of nicknames? Have you ever had a nickname? Who chose the name for you? What did you feel about your nickname?
Blade CHAPTER 1 Why do you think Jack was unable to kill his first pig? Would you have been able to? Why would you have been able to do what Jack couldn’t? Or why would you have been like Jack?
Crash CHAPTER 2 Who do you think shot down the boys’ plane? Why do you think that?
Beastie CHAPTER 2 The littluns are afraid of the beastie in the dark. Are you or were you ever afraid of the beastie in the dark? How did it feel to think something was out there that was going to get you?
Signal CHAPTER 2 What do you think about their idea to light the signal fire? How important do you think the fire is? Why?
Glasses CHAPTER 2 Piggy’s glasses are possibly the most important item that the kids have. How is it ironic that a kid named Piggy has them? What could that mean when we think about the bigger picture of humanity?
Jack CHAPTER 3 Jack is the first kid to really go out hunting for the pig. Describe Jack’s personality and how Jack is different than the other boys. How is Jack’s desire and ability to hunt a good thing? How could it be a bad thing?
Shelter CHAPTER 3 The boys have to build their own shelters. Think about your shelter that you live in. What does it give you? How did it get there? What would happen to your life if it was gone?
Littluns CHAPTER 3 The older boys immediately take charge of taking care of the littluns (the little boys). No that there aren’t any adults, why do the boys feel like they need to take care of the younger ones? Why don’t they just let them fend for themselves?
Pig CHAPTER 3 Why do they so badly want to kill a pig?
Mastery CHAPTER 4 When Henry is playing around with sticks in the water, he figures out how to make little pools to trap swimming creatures. He feels “himself exercising control over living things” and feels “the illusion of mastery.” Explain the feelings Henry is having. What does it mean that he’s having these feelings after his plane crashed on an island in the middle of the ocean?
Civilization CHAPTER 4 At one point the boys start throwing rocks, breaking a school yard rule that they all know well. But he doesn’t throw them near the other boys because that rule is somehow stronger . . . still has “the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.” How come he’s still following the rules? And what does this quote foreshadow might happen in the future?
Mask CHAPTER 4 When Jack paints his face, what changes in Jack? What changes in the boys? What changes on the island?
Metal CHAPTER 4 Clocks, airplanes, TV sets, steam engines . . . “You have to have a lot of metal things” for those. The boys are faced with the reality that they don’t have metal. What would your life be like without metal? How would you feel? How would it make your life more difficult? How would it make your life simpler?
Ship CHAPTER 4 The first time they see a ship on the horizon, the kids responsible for the fire haven’t been doing their job, so there isn’t any smoke. How do you think Ralph feels about this? How would you feel?
Chant CHAPTER 4 “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” When the kids start chanting this together, what does the mood feel like? What is happening to the boys that is turning them from choir boys to kids who can chant something like this…and even mean it?
Broken CHAPTER 4 How do you think Piggy feels when he hears his glasses “tinkle” off the ground? How do you think Ralph feels? What about Jack?
Structure CHAPTER 5 Ralph likes responsibilities taken care of - water, shelter, fire, etc. Why do you think he wants all these things set in order? What does he think will happen when all the structure is set up and the rules put in place? What does he think will happen if they don’t set up all the structure?
Dreams CHAPTER 5 The littluns are having bad dreams. What's one of the scariest bad dreams you've ever had?
