William Golding’s enduring classic ‘Lord of the Flies’ is an essential text, detailing the story of a group of young boys shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. With the absence of law and order, and parental authority, chaos and tragedy unfolds. I have taught this text many times in the last twenty years and have used this specific resource (revised in 2021) to: lead my teaching in class, as a distance learning resource in SKYPE lessons, as a homework assignment and even as a tool of revision – all have worked well for the students.
This dynamically presented PowerPoint lesson (23 slides, approximately 90 minutes teaching time) works as an engaging introduction to the text and covers three main focus points:
The life and works of William Golding
The leading themes within ‘Lord of the Flies’
The presentation of the leading characters within the ‘Lord of the Flies’ text.
This PowerPoint lesson includes, a starter activity, theme analysis questions, characterisation tasks, an extension task connected to critical vocabulary, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no additional work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
