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The Giver, by Lois LowryDAY 1: INTRODUCTION

1. Lois Lowry Webquest

2. Pre-Reading Writing Activity

DAY 2: CHAPTERS 1-2

Read Chapters 1-2 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Identify and circle the point-of-view of the story:

1st 2nd 3rd Objective 3rd Limited 3rd Omniscient

2. Explain how you know the point-of-view.

3. Explain why Jonas was fascinated by the unidentified flying object.

4. List the rules of each family unit?

5. Describe in TWO COMPLETE SENTENCES how parents receive children.

6. What does it mean to be “politically correct” in the book’s society?

7. Look up the word “momentous.” Define what momentous means IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

8. What is especially momentous about the Ceremony of Twelve?

9. What is the setting (time and place) of the book?

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Chapters 1-2 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. palpable:

2. distraught:

3. nurturer:

4. transgression:

5. apprehensive:

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DAY 3: CHAPTERS 3-4

Read Chapters 3-4 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Jonas finds Gabe’s eyes interesting. Why?

2. In the box to the right, illustrate what you think Gabe’s eyes look like.

3. How is mothering in the book different from what you’ve known and experienced in your own life?

4. Describe in TWO COMPLETE SENTENCES what happens with the apple in Chapter Three.

5. Why does Jonas especially like the feeling of safety in the House of the Old?

6. List TWO FACTS that you have learned about “releasing.”

7. What is the reaction when a new idea is suggested to the Committee of Elders? Describe the reaction in TWO COMPLETE SENTENCES.

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Chapters 3-4 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. chastise:

2. nondescript:

3. gravitate:

4. chortle:

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DAY 4: CHAPTER 5

Read Chapter 5 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Explain the society’s rule about Stirrings. What effect do the pills have on Jonas and the others who take them?

2. Why are the society’s rules printed in all capital letters?

3. So far, what do you see as the positive aspects of the community?

4. What do you see as the negative aspects of the community?

5. Based on the positives and negatives you just listed, evaluate whether you would wanted to live in a society like this. Explain why or why not in TWO OR MORE COMPLETE SENTENCES.

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Chapter 5 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. infraction:

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DAY 5: CHAPTERS 6-7

Read Chapters 6-7 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. What was the family required to do in order for Gabriel to be allowed a second year of “nurturing?”

2. What is the mood on the day of the Ceremonies?

3. What kind of power does the Committee of Elders have?

4. What do the Fours, Fives, and Sixes have to wear? What does this help them to learn?

5. How does Jonas feel as his Ceremony of Twelve starts? How does he feel when number Twenty is announced?

6. What assignment does Fiona get? Why is this so perfect for her?

7. How would you feel if you’d received the instructions Jonas did?

8. In the space below, illustrate the setting of the Ceremonies.

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Chapters 6-7 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. interdependence:

2. exuberant:

3. exasperated:

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DAY 6: CHAPTERS 8-9

Read Chapters 8-9 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Identify three qualifications that Jonas has for becoming the next Receiver of Memory.

2. Describe what is meant by “capacity to see beyond?”

3. Why does the community cheer for Jonas?

4. How have things changed after the Ceremony of Twelves?

5. Which item in the lists of duties and responsibilities frightened Jonas? Why did this frighten him?

6. Explain why Jonas had difficulty comprehending (understanding) the concept of pain?

Chapters 8-9 Vocabulary

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For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. anguish:

2. meticulously:

3. excruciating:

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DAY 7: CHAPTERS 10-11

Read Chapters 10-11 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Describe why the Annex was unique.

2. What is the first memory transmitted to Jonas?

3. In the box below, illustrate how you imagine that first memory.

4. When Jonas receives memories, how does he feel before? How does he feel after? Explain in TWO OR MORE COMPLETE SENTENCES.

5. Why do you think the book’s world doesn’t have snow, sleds, and hills, except in the Receiver’s memory?

6. Describe the two lessons that Jonas learned about the sun.

7. What is the negative aspect that Jonas realizes about the sun? How does Jonas react to it?

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Chapters 10-11 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. exhilarating:

2. conveyance:

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DAY 8: CHAPTER 12

Read Chapter 12 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. How is “seeing beyond” developing (changing) for Jonas?

2. Why is it important for the community to have a person who can “see beyond?”

3. How did The Giver explain the visual phenomena that Jonas witnessed? What did this reveal about the community?

4. Why did the community give up the ability to see color? Which color was Jonas able to see first?

5. What is the difference between one-generation memories and the memory Jonas receives?

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Chapters 12 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. admonition:

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DAY 9: CHAPTERS 13-16

Read Chapters 13-16 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Why does Jonas begin to feel unfairness in his world?

2. Why doesn’t Jonas’ family understand his training?

3. Why does Jonas decide to keep secret how he calms Gabriel at night?

4. Create a Venn diagram below that compares and contrasts Jonas’s first and second experiences with snow.

5. According to The Giver, why did Jonas have to receive and store memories of pain?

6. Why does The Giver apologize to Jonas after sharing the memory of war.

7. Describe why Jonas and his father were worried about Gabriel’s fretfulness at night. How did Jonas try to solve this problem?

8. Why doesn’t Jonas want to return to The Giver at the start of chapter 16?

9. How do Jonas and his parents differ in their understanding of love?

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Chapters 13-16 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. mutilate:

2. sinuous:

3. writhing:

4. assuage:

5. contort:

6. immobilize:

7. obsolete:

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DAY 10: CHAPTERS 17-19

Read Chapters 17-19 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Describe the way Jonas reacts to the children’s war game. Why do you think he reacts this way? Explain in TWO OR MORE COMPLETE SENTENCES.

2. What has Jonas lost as the Receiver of Memories?

3. Explain why Jonas felt powerless and alone when Fiona and Asher rode off on their bicycles.

4. Why is the Receiver’s job so vital to the community?

5. What did Jonas discover when he viewed his father “releasing” one of the newborn twins? How would you describe his reaction? Explain in TWO OR MORE COMPLETE SENTENCES.

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Chapters 17-19 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

8. exasperation:

9. expertise:

10. imploring:

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DAY 11: CHAPTERS 20-21

Read Chapters 20-21 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Why does The Giver tell Jonas that the characters in the book know nothing?

2. Explain why The Giver was now ready to make a plan for change.

3. Why would Jonas’s departure from the community lead to possible change?

4. Why did The Giver decide to stay behind to help the community?

5. Who was Rosemary and what happened to her?

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Chapters 20-21 Vocabulary

For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. empower:

2. meticulously:

3. stealthily:

4. frazzled:

5. emphatic:

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DAY 12: CHAPTERS 22-23

Read Chapters 22-23 and answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

1. Explain THREE new images or feeling that Jonas and Gabe experience in Chapter 22.

2. Describe the way Jonas used memories to foil the search planes.

3. Explain two other ways in which memories help Jonas during the journey.

4. What might have been the source of the music that Jonas thought he heard behind him? Why do you think this? Explain in TWO COMPLETE SENTENCES.

Chapters 22-23 Vocabulary

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For each term, provide the definition and an example of how the word is used in the book.

1. exquisite:

2. tantalize:

3. agonizing:

4. trudge:

5. lethargy:

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DAY 13-16: PROJECTS

You will be spending three days of class time working on a project. It will be due on Day 17 and you will be taking a Novel Test and AR Quiz. Make sure to study!

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