“Lord of the Flies”- Island Description

The Island:

“It was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore. On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree-clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail. There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion” (Golding 26)

Scar:

“Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar”. (Golding 4).

Lagoon :

“lagoon was still as a mountain lake—blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple” (10)

Shore:

“The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air” (4)

Beach:

“The beach between the palm terrace and the water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost invisible, was the heat” (Golding 4).

 

 

Mountain :

“rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter” (Golding 113)

Forest:

“Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture” (Golding 77)

Reef:

“The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach” (Golding 38)

Platform:

“Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees.”(Golding 13)

Jungle:

Ralph disentangled himself cautiously and stole away through the branches. In a few seconds the fat boy’s grunts were behind him and he was hurrying toward the screen that still lay between him and the lagoon. He climbed over a broken trunk and was out of the jungle. (Golding 10)

DNA Lab

The difference between chromosomes, DNA, and genes is that chromosomes contain the DNA so they carry them, whereas DNA actually carries the genetic code. Genes are smaller forms of DNA but they get carried down generations not just in one person.

In the picture below the DNA structure is represented by black and red licorice and colourful marshmallow. The black and red licorice represent the back bone which is sugar-phosphate.
The marshmallows represent the bases that connect the backbones together yellow marshmallows represent adenine, the orange marshmallows represent thymine, the green represents guanine, and the pink represent cytosine.

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This activity helped learn about DNA because I can now match to a visual and now have something to remember all the parts. Like licorice has sugar, sugar-phosphate makes the backbone.

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My Birthday

My birthday is on Februaury 14,2015 a more common name for this day is Valentine’s Day. Well they call it Valentine’s Day to celebrate the Valentines. The Valentines are not just one person or Saint in particular its a whole group of Saints. There was one though that did all these things for love like marrying soldiers that were not to be wed. That is the history of my birthday.