12/2/2010
 Plan for the day!
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Take the first 5 minutes
of class to study for the
vocab quiz.
Take the vocab quiz
Journal
Discuss Essay
Begin working on
SATDO chart
Make up the DAC if you
weren’t here yesterday!
 Reminders!
 Today is the last day to
turn in your book to me!
(After 2:50 today--- it is
between you, your AP and
the God of your choice)
 If you KNOW you are
missing work you MUST
make it up by Friday
afternoon.
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Ch. 1- 3 Reading Quiz
Ch. 1- 3 Vocab Quiz
Ch. 4-6 Reading/ Vocab
Quiz
Journal/ Pre-Write
 In the novel Lord of the Flies Golding
presents two themes Civilization vs Savagery
and Loss of Innocence.
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Which theme do you think is more important in
the novel?
Why that theme over the other?
Which do you think would harder for the boys
to get back, their innocence or their civilizing
instinct?
Character
Analysis
AKA:
Reading way more into the work
than the author EVER intended!
Fun Fact: Mark Twain
 You know the man who looks
like Coronal Sanders? This was
written on the first page of his
novel…
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Persons attempting to
find a motive in this
narrative will be
prosecuted; persons
attempting to find a
moral in it will be
banished; persons
attempting to find a plot
in it will be shot.
 Forgive us Mr.
Twain…
The Prompt
(or the purpose of my rambling power points)
 You will write a character analysis on one of the
characters from Lord of the Flies.
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Character analysis is a fancy name for an essay that
explains who the character is or why he/ she did something
specific.
 You will pick a character and show how they demonstrate
one of the themes.
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Civilization vs Savagery
Loss of Innocence
 So pick a character:
 Jack, Piggy, Ralph or Simon
 And pick which theme they BEST embody:
 Civilization vs Savagery
 Loss of Innocence
Now that you have your character and
theme…
(and absolutely NO desire to write this paper)
 You will fill out your SATDO chart to help you
find textual evidence or PROOF that your
character EMBODIES (represents) the theme
you picked.
 SATDO is an acronym that helps you find
character traits for your character by what the
character:
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Says
Appears
Thinks
Do
Others think of the character
Pre-Write: SATDO Chart
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2 Quotes &
Page #’s from
the Reading
A
Character
Trait
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12/3/2010
Come in and sit down.
HAPPY FRIDAY! 
Get out your SATDO chart
SATDO= Way to go!
 Now that your SATDO chart is
completed you will begin to “flesh
out” your essay.
 Remember an essay is like a map
and I need instructions of where I
am going. So what is the first thing
you need for your essay?
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Remember research---what was the most
important thing in your paper?
A THESIS!
 Tell them what they have won Bo…You all
have won a readable essay and a passing
grade!!!! WOOOO!
 Remember your character analysis has to
address 2 things from Lord of the Flies, what
are they?
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Character! (Simon, Ralph, Jack OR Piggy)
Theme (Civilization vs Savagery OR Loss of
Innocence)
Creating your Thesis
 From the traits you found on your SATDO chart and the
quotes, which ones help prove the theme you chose?
 EX: Through the character of Roger, with his cruel
actions and threatening appearance, Golding builds the
theme of civilization vs savagery.
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Character= Roger
Traits= threatening appearance & cruel actions
Theme= Civilization vs Savagery
I am going to prove the theme by using quotes that
show these traits.
Quotes! That’s what they said…
 So I need quotes that not only prove the traits but also
help to prove my theme.
 Trait # 1: cruel nature
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Quote 1: “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed,
and threw it at Henry…” (62).
Quote 2: “High over-head, with a sense of delirious
abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever” (180).
 Trait # 2: threatening appearance
 Quote 1: “…kept to himself with an inner intensity and
secrecy” (22).
 Quote 2: “…seemed to suit his gloomy face and made
what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into
something forbidding” (60).
12/6/2010
 Plan for the day!
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Copy down calendar
Discuss how to
format full character
analysis.
Write your rough
draft for character
analysis
MUST TURN IN
WHAT YOU WRITE
TODAY!
 Remember:
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You will write your
final draft tomorrow
(Tuesday) in class.
Next week is exam
week…break out the
calculators (to see
what you need to
get your “perfect”
grade) and the
books…to ya know
study and stuff.
Format of the paper
Intro.
2 Body paragraphs
Conclusion
Intro.
(this is cake compared to research)
 Attention getter
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Quote from the story
Rhetorical question
 Basic info.
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Name the work, the author and a VERY
BASIC description of the novel.
 Thesis.
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You should already have this written and
checked it with me…
Intro example:
 Broken down to his most basic nature is
man good or evil? In William Golding’s
novel Lord of the Flies this idea is explored
when young boys are stranded on a
deserted island and their true personalities
emerge. Through the character of Roger,
with his cruel actions and threatening
appearance, Golding builds the theme of
civilization vs savagery.
Body Paragraphs
 Like the research paper you need:
 Topic sentence
 Integrated quote with citation (just the
page # from LOTF)
 1 sentence of commentary for each
 Concluding sentence
Total Body Paragraph
 Topic Sentence: 1 of your 2 traits
 Integrated quote: with page #
 Commentary: relates quote to theme
 Integrated Quote: with page #
 Commentary: relates quote to theme
 Conclusion: Sums up paragraph
Commentary:
Making it NOT suck
 This is the place where you explain how your
trait and your quote relate to the theme.
Integrated
quote!
 At the beginning of the novel the reader begins to see the
Commentary
violent nature of Roger emerge as he “…stooped, picked
up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry…” (62). Roger
enjoys the act of almost hurting another human, however
the idea of rules are still present because Roger cannot
bring himself to actually hit Henry. As the novel
progresses Roger becomes the epitome of violence
when he, “with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned
all his weight on the lever” and loosens a rock that falls
on Piggy and kills him (180). Roger has lost all sense of
his civilized self and completely gives into his savage
impulses.
Conclusion
 Sum up the point of your paper. Make your
points again
 Restate thesis and make it final.
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Ex: Golding’s theme of civilization vs savagery
is presented through Roger’s brutal
personality and menacing appearance.
Golding asks the question of man’s morality
and through the character of Roger the reader
gets Golding’s answer: Man at his most primal
degree will always choose the darkside.
Dorky Star Wars reference