Thursday, February 2, 2012

Gender Bender - Mean Girls

Taken from Google Images

We have witnessed the boys on the island being rather mean to one another.  Name-calling.  Throwing rocks.  Breaking the little 'uns sand castles on the beach.  Leaving Piggy out.  Boys can be cruel - but so can girls (in a very different way)!  For this journal entry, I want you to imagine that a plane full of girls had crashed on the island, not boys.  Rewrite a scene in the novel and consider:  how would the fighting and malicious behavior towards one another be different?  Or would there be fighting at all?  How would the little 'uns be treated differently if our characters represented the XX chromosome - not XY?  Where would the girls' priorities lay compared to the boys'?

Have fun with this journal entry! :)

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