After reading Chapter’s 1 and 2 Compare and Contrast the manner in which the children on the Island start to build their society on the island with the one that we started to create in class on Friday.
Similarities: In the book and in class, we both decided to make groups with people to chose what jobs they were going to do. We also both had a leader.
Differences: In the book, they based it more on civilization. In our class, we just based it on survival skills.
Study Questions
Ch. 1
1. Who are the first two characters to appear in the story?
Ralph and Piggy
2. What do Ralph and Piggy find in the small lagoon?
Ralph and Piggy find a conch shell
3. How does Ralph summon the others?
Ralph starts blowing the conch shell
4. Who is elected chief?
Ralph
5. For what purpose does Jack Merridew want his choir used?
He wants his choir to start hunting
6. What assignment does Ralph give Piggy instead of allowing him to join the exploration expedition?
Ralph tells piggy to learn everybody’s name
7. Who does Ralph select to accompany him on the expedition?
Jack and Simon
8. What weapon does Jack possess?
He possesses a knife
9. What does Simon call the strange bushes they find?
Simon called the strange bushes candle buds
10. Why does the piglett trapped in the creeper vines escape?
The piglet escape because Jack delayed to kill it
Ch. 2
1. Where does Ralph get the idea for using the conch to speak? He got the idea from his school at home
2.Why is Jack so enthusiastic about the possibility of creating rules? Because he’s excited to possibly being able to enforce the rules
3. Which boy pessimistically introduces the reality that they may never be rescued? Roger
4. Who first mentions “the beastie”? The boy with the birthmark
5. Who is the last to join the boys on the mountain to make a fire? Piggy was the last to join
6. How do the boys start the fire? They started the fire with Piggy’s glasses
7. How does the fire become uncontrollable? Sparks started to come out of the fire and went around the jungle
8. Who defends Piggy from Jack for not helping with the fire? Simon
9. How does Piggy first notice a boy is missing, even though he doesn’t know his name? He didn’t see the boy with the birthmark
JESSICA AITCHISON 