English 09: 10.24 - Noun Maps

Today, we continued our work with noun maps from yesterday. We took a look at the song "The Fool on the Hill" by The Beatles and created a noun map for the song.

After everyone had a chance to create their noun map, everyone shared with a partner while one person re-created their map on the board. We then discussed this map and added to it.

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After talking about the set up of this noun map we identified three sections that had formed (society, the man/speaker, nature). Looking at these relationships, everyone then wrote down in their writer's journal what they thought the song was about.

Next, we took this idea of the noun map and set about applying it to The Lord of the Flies. Working with a partner, everyone set about reading the first 12 or so pages of The Lord of the Flies, taking notes on different people, places, objects, and ideas that appear in the beginning of the book. We will then be mapping these out to get a sense for early relationships and the social landscape of the book. For today, everyone's work was based on the following directions: