How to Play

Teachers are the island gods and goddesses - all decisions and outcomes are ultimately decided by the teachers.

Your task is to survive on a deserted island for duration of your reading of Lord of the Flies. If you can make it the entire duration of the novel, then you win! Your survival will be decided upon a number of factors - some results from your own actions, and others entirely random:

Journals / Quizzes - THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN EARN THE MOST POINTS. Teachers will offer journals and quizzes throughout this activity that will award positive or negative Health to you or your group, depending on (1) the choices you make, (2) your collaboration as a team (does each member get assigned a role or responsibility), and (3) specific references you make to the novel (e.g. quotations and proper citations may award extra points).
Exploring - Every day, each player has the opportunity to decide to explore the island. You could find something beneficial, resulting in positive Health points; or you could find something negative, resulting in a loss of Health points. When you explore, you have the option to earn (or lose) triple the amount of Health by "going alone" when you explore. (You don't have to decide this as a group; you can just choose for your own character if you want to gamble.) The rewards are bigger when going alone because you can keep what you find to yourself, but the penalties are bigger too because you don't have the support of your group...
Collaboration - When the gods and goddesses of the island choose to rewards students for working together well, each student (if you're alive) will be awarded one Health point for each other group member you've helped keep alive. So it pays to work together and keep your group alive!
Fatigue - Each day of the week (even days you don't have class, like weekends and days off school), each player will lose one Health point to fatigue, due to the stress of trying to survive on a deserted island. (If you think this point loss is harsh, try living in the wild some time... SURVIVAL IS TOUGH!)
Catastrophy/Forture - When the gods and goddesses of the island will it, great fortune will benefit everyone, or great catastrophe will strike you all down!

If at any time during this activity someone in your group dies, becomes ill, or is harmed in any way, then she or he must act that way in group discussions and meetings. This means that if someone is ill or injured, that person cannot "virtually contribute" (virtual, because you're not actually on a deserted island) to gathering supplies or fortifying your camp; so when your group journals about what you would be doing on a specific day, you cannot assign those members tasks to do.

Group members who die can (and should) still contribute to group discussions, but they cannot contribute to actions the groups would take on the island. Once you die, you cannot return back to life, even if your group earns positive Health through journal entries.