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 * Scaffolded Reading**

ITEC 57430: Computer Applications in Education

July 2010, Professor Bateman

This assignment asks students to read a fiction passage and use hyperlinks to get additional information about the content as well as questions to help them analyze the passage.

Understanding Content || //Lord of the Flies,// Golding (first paragraphs)
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English, Grade 10 || Scaffolds for Thinking Like a Literary Scholar || Lagoon ? Open the hyperlink for information about this important part of the setting. 1. What is a lagoon?
 * What is a

What are the Home Counties? Open this hyperlink for information about the boy’s home. 1. Where is the boy from?

Open this hyperlink to learn about what the megaphone is and answer questions about its importance.

What is a [|Reef] ? Open this hyperlink for a great web site about reefs.
 * 1) What is a reef?
 * 2) Why is it important that the island is surrounded by a reef? (Hint: See lagoon definition.)

Vocabulary: began to pick his way toward the __lagoon.__ Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. “Hi!” it said. “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering. “Wait a minute,” the voice said. “I got caught up.” The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the __Home Counties.__ The voice spoke again. “I can’t hardly move with all these creeper things.” The owner of the voice came backing out of the undergrowth so that twigs scratched on a greasy wind-breaker. The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles. “Where’s the man with the __megaphone__?” The fair boy shook his head. “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a __reef__ out in the sea. Perhaps there aren’t any grownups anywhere.” The fat boy looked startled. “There was that pilot. But he wasn’t in the passenger cabin, he was up in front.” The fair boy was peering at the reef through screwed-up eyes. “All them other kids,” the fat boy went on. “Some of them must have got out. They must have, mustn’t they?” The fair boy began to pick his way as casually as possible toward the
 * 1) Using the context clues in the sentence, what do you think solemnly means?
 * 2) Read the definition for the word [|solemnly] in Dictionary.com; open the hyperlink to see the entry for this word. To get back to this document, choose “close tab”.
 * 3) What is the definition?
 * 4) Was your prediction based on the context clues accurate?
 * 5) What part of speech is solemnly?
 * 6) What is the word’s origin? || The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and

water. He tried to be offhand and not too obviously uninterested, but the fat boy hurried after him. “Aren’t there any grownups at all?” “I don’t think so.” The fair boy said this __solemnly__; but then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. In the middle of the scar he stood on his head and grinned at the reversed fat boy. || Characterization Open this hyperlink to get the definition of characterization.

Characterization Assignment Open this hyperlink to get the characterization assignment.

School uniform Open this hyperlink to get information about what the boys are wearing and a brief assignment on the boys’ clothing.

Setting: Jungle Open this hyperlink to get information and an assignment about the setting. ||