Lord of the Flies, Where the Wild Things Are, and Maurice Sendak (view)
Units included with this Open Author resource:
- Lord of the Flies - Extension - What is Innocence, Really?
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- Keywords:
- Lord of the Flies, Interview, Video, Children's Books, Where the Wild Things Are
Summary
This lesson is an extension of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, where a clear theme is the loss of innocence. Using an Atlantic article about Maurice Sendak (author of Where the Wild Things Are) and an interview between Stephen Colbert and Maurice Sendak (disclaimer: view the interview first to determine its appropriateness for your students), the lesson seeks complicate that theme and introduce more nuanced versions of what childhood really contains.