VOTD 52: Assertive

Having or showing confidence and a forceful personality

LORD OF THE FLIES

An Introduction

GROUP PROJECT

You and your group will be assigned one of the four categories listed in this presentation. 

LORD OF THE FLIES CONTEXT

Therefore, you should take scrupulous notes on each category to assist your team in its research.

You will have three research and preparation days this week. You will present your project on Friday next week. Your group members will evaluate your involvement in the task, and their input will influence your grade on the assignment.

Based on this image, turn to your elbow partner and make a prediction about the novel.

Based on this image, make a prediction about the novel.

Lord of the Flies

• Written by WILLIAM GOLDING in 1954 

• Considered part of the DYSTOPIAN genre

• Argues about the savagery of HUMAN NATURE

• Influenced by Golding's involvement in World War II

WILLIAM GOLDING, 1954

The world had just underwent World War II and was entering the Cold War

What people feared the most was NUCLEAR WARFARE, or the use of nuclear weapons by warring entities

Where was Golding born? Nationality? How was he involved in these wars?

Dystopia

Definition: An imagined society that is in some important way undesirable, oppressed, or frightening 

Video games such as The Last of Us

often portray dystopian environments.

In Greek, it is literally translated as "not good place" and an antonym for utopia.

Hunger Games, The Walking Dead, Wall-E...

Human Nature

Ways of thinking, feeling and acting, which humans tend to have naturally---independent of the influence of culture.

Without culture,

how would YOU behave?

SIGMUND FREUD

JOHN LOCKE

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Golding in WWII

What role did he play in the war?

Involved in the Invasion

of Normandy, or D-Day

Influenced his writing

of Lord of the Flies

Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers... many movies depict D-Day!

Now...

You will have some time to MEET and FORMULATE A PLAN with your groups. 

Remember, your group members are EVALUATING your participation, and how much you take this task seriously will be part of your grade.