Describes a unit plan for teaching "Lord of the Flies" that allows students to respond freely to the reading and to "get out of their seats" and experience the first chapter of the book. Includes ...guidelines for the response-based approach, for discussion groups, and for character portfolios. (NH)
Examines how secondary students socialized into the complex and demanding discourse of English Literature. Considers what factors from the student's perspective, particularly those for whom English ...is their second language, distinguish those who more actively participate from those who do not. Addresses how one teacher sought to do this through an analysis of transcripts of a single social activity: an open classroom discussion of a novel. (SG)
Ebeling discusses the organic etiologies of barbarism in Lord of the Flies by Golding. Through common analysis of Golding's novel, the majority of readers have determined that the downfall of ...civilization is a result of the inherent evil nature of man alone. However, health hazards and nutritional factors could have physiologically impaired the boys' cognitive abilities, thereby becoming potential significant contributors to their descent into savagery. More specifically, environmental influences, such as heat stress and dehydration, as well as nutritional factors, resulting in a condition called neurocysticercosis, have the capability of degrading rational thought and behavioral regulation.
Describes a Language Development course that integrates language learning with drama activities in a Teaching-English-as-a-Second-Language (TESL) program at the University of Brunei. The strategies ...are described using William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" and George Orwell's "Animal Farm." (GLR)
Suggests that the usual interpretation of "The Lord of the Flies"--that human nature is inherently evil--may not be the best interpretation. Indicates that the behavior of the book's characters may ...reflect the child rearing and early education experienced by upper class English boys in the 1930s. (TJ)
