ALL CLASSES: MARKS CUT OFF IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH. NO TERM 1 WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DATE.

Comm 12

1. Library: Grad Info Meeting.
2. Tomorrow: Finish presentations, begin Of Mice and Men.

English 11
Lord of the Flies
1. Finish reading, discuss Chapter 9.
2. Begin Chapter 10, discuss.
*Homework: Finish reading the last few pages of Chapter 10 and answer the last two questions on your own*
Hints for Questions 5 and 6 (re: Tomorrow's Quiz):
- Ralph's daydreams consist of a bus centre and dancing around a streetlight. He no longer finds wilderness thrilling. Now that he has lived through the horror of true wildness, he yearns for civilization, for a "tamed town where savagery could not set foot"
- Jack and his tribe raid the camp in order to steal Piggy's glasses. Ralph thinks they had come for the conch, but Jack has no interest in the democratic and orderly properties of the conch. He only needs Piggy's glasses so that his tribe can start a fire. Ralph still assumes (hopes?) that Jack respects the order and civility they first tried to imitate in their early society; he doesn't see that Jack has given himself over to the darkness (savagery).

*Note the development of Roger's character in this chapter. Golding writes that Roger "assimilat(es) the possibilities of irresponsible authority" (176). While Jack is savage as a means to an end (insecure need for power), Roger relishes the idea of harming others (as was hinted at in Chapter 4 when he throws rocks at Henry and destroys the sandcastles).*