Resources for Teaching Lord of the Flies

Springbrook High School Media Center

This guide is on the web – the web sites will be just a click away.

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/springbrookhs/flies.htm

 

 

Background Reading and Viewing

William Golding: the Man and His Myths VIDEO (92 GOL)

Introduces students to the life and writing of William Golding through his two novels, Lord of the Flies, and The Inheritors.

 

 

World Literature and Its Times.  BOOK  (896.9  MOS)  Vol. 4 p. 283  Refresher reading for teachers about the novel’s context:

·        Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place: Hitler, social prohibitions and the nature of evil, the Blitz and great evacuation, nuclear technology and total war

·        The Novel in Focus: war, society and civilization, class consciousness on the island, sources and literary context, reviews 

 

Understanding Lord of the Flies: a Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents BOOK (823 GOL) literary analysis and critical overviews of characters, themes, and relevance to everyday life. Concepts of civilization and savagery, British Imperialism and the British school system. Each chapter ends with discussion and essay questions.

 

Novels for Students.  BOOK (808.83 NOV) Vol. 2 p. 174.  Characters, themes, style, symbolism, setting, and historical context.  Includes excerpts from critical essays.  Compares Britain in the 1950’s to modern times.

 

Lesson Plans

Web English Teacher FREE WEBSITE

Links to lesson plans for Lord of the Flies.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/golding.html

 

Online Subscription

Gale Student Resource Center

Literature Search module has biographical material on Golding and critical essays on Lord of the Flies 

Linked from Media Center Resources Page http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/springbrookhs/www/www.html

 

 

N.B. - Students like these sites for plot summaries, character analysis, “fake reading”

 

Pink Monkey

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/lordfly02.asp

 

Spark Notes

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/