My Students
My students have strong work ethics, as well as strong ties to their cultures. The Santa Maria community is also strongly family-oriented, and parents work hard in order to provide a good education and bright futures for their children.
My Project
Lord of the Flies is a grade-level text for 8th grade. It goes along with a narrative unit and helps students understand characterization and suspense.
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What happens when a planeload of British schoolboys crash-lands on a deserted Pacific island?from shop.scholastic.com
When a planeload of British schoolboys crash-lands on a deserted Pacific island, the surviving boys struggle to create order among themselves so that they have a chance at being rescued. Differing leaders emerge, but as their terror of the island's mysteries and their own fears about survival overtake them, the boys become increasingly violent.
Is Lord of the Flies harder than The Outsiders?from kqed.org
“ Lord of the Flies is hard, and significantly harder [than The Outsiders ], significantly more complex,” said Lemov. “Anyone who has read that book knows how hard it is. It has archaic language, it’s full of allusions to different worlds, they use British English.”
