End of Unit Paragraph Writing Help
Help for getting started on your THEME paragraph…
 Possible theme TOPICS:
1. The need for social order
2. Power
3. Vision/rational thinking
4. Loss of identity
5. Loss of innocence
 Pick one you think you can talk about…
 Then you need to ask yourself:
What is significant about this topic?
 What is significant about this topic?
ASK MORE QUESTIONS!!!
1.
Why do the kids need social order? What happens when
people stop abiding by the rules?
2.
Is there a power struggle on the island? Why? What
contributes to it?
Does logical thinking rule the island?
4. Are the kids the same at the end of the book as they were
at the beginning? Do characters change? How?
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5.
Why do these boys have to grow up so fast? What
happens to them on this island?
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In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys on
the island need social order because…
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Ralph and
Jack struggle for power because…
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys have
trouble making logical decisions because…
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, many of the
characters in the book lose their sense identity
because…
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the boys lose
their innocence because…
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In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the breakdown of
social order leads to the loss of innocence.
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Ralph and Jack
struggle for power results in the breakdown of social
order.
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Piggy’s character
is the driving force of logic and reason on the island.
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the loss of
identity represented by the face painting results in the
breakdown of social order and innocence on the island.
…you get the gist?
Help for getting started on your compare and contrast
paragraph…
 Important questions to ask yourself:
 Who are you comparing?
 Are you focusing only on similarities?
Differences? Both?
 How are you FOCUSING your comparison?
Personality? How they change? etc.
 Do your examples/details (QUOTES!) span
the ENTIRE book???
 Your quotes should be pulled from the
Beginning, Middle, and End of the book to
show clear exploration of your characters.
Help for getting started on your Author’s Purpose paragraph…
 First, answer these questions:
 What is the title of the text?
 Who is the author?
 What year was the text published?
The Basics
S = Speaker
O = Occasion
Go Beyond the Basics
Identify the voice and the point of view from which he/she is speaking.
Identify the speaker’s values, biases, and beliefs. Determine if the speaker
can be trusted.
What is the time and place? Is there a particular historical context that
influences the message or the speaker? What specific set of
circumstances prompted the speaker to speak?
Who will hear or read this message? What are this audience’s biases or
= Audience values? Is this audience open to the message?
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P = Purpose
S = Subject
Tone
What does the speaker want the reader to know, to understand, to do?
What is the main idea/topic? What is this work about?
What is the dominant tone and what is its effect? Look primarily at the
author’s attitude. What words, images, or figures of speech reveal the
author’s attitude? Are there any shifts in tone within the document, and if
so, what is the result?
Ask yourself: Which CHARACTERS might
serve as the author’s MOUTHPIECE? How so?
How could their ideas/opinions mimic the
author’s?
2. Ask yourself: Which SCENES or EVENTS in the
story could possibly serve as social, cultural,
religious, historical, etc. COMMENTARY.
Perhaps you could draw comparisons of
events or dialogue to things going on in the
author’s world at the time s/he wrote the
text?
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