We started today's class by having people meet with their object partners for The Lord of the Flies. Partner groups had 20 minutes to look through their sticky notes and add information about their object to the Google Drive spreadsheet. We will be using this sheet to look at all of the collected information on characters, objects, and places (email Mr. Collins if you need to be granted access to this document).
Next, we took a look at a scene from the 1998 movie Armageddon in which we are introduced to five important secondary characters. Each character is introduced through a short vignette in which the FBI attempts to round them up to help NASA destroy a large asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth.
In the scene, the men do not know that their help is wanted, they just know the FBI has arrived. In these vignettes, we were looking at where the men are, what they are doing, who they are with, how they are dressed, how they respond to the presence of the FBI. To achieve this, we watched the scene four times. Everyone took notes on four the characters' actions and then we began discussing the observations that people made. We will continue with this activity next class (and then look at applying this sort of character analysis to The Lord of the Flies).
Armageddon Character Analysis Sheet
Homework:
Read chapter nine of Lord of the Flies. Continue to put down sticky notes when your person, place, or object is
mentioned (one sticky note per page, per element is fine).
Continue to study the set 5 roots and prefixes.
Roots and Prefix Set 5 list
Roots and Prefix Set 5 practice
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