The Giver Chapter 15

In in class today we worked in pairs and students then took turns telling their memories to their partner and then writing down what he or she felt.

Homework

-read chapters 16-18
-do Qs chapters 14-16
-do vocabulary Qs chapters 14-16

Chapter 15

Jonas finds The Giver once again incapacitated by pain and offers to take some of it. The Giver transmits to him a horrible scene of war where men, some barely older than he is, are lying injured, dying and thirsty. Jonas experienced lying near death in agony for hours before the memory is complete. When he opens his eyes, The Giver asks him for forgiveness.

The Giver Chapter 14

Chapter 14

The Giver passes a memory of a sledding accident that gives Jonas his first understanding of real pain. Jonas feels the pain of it even after the memory, but is not allowed to take anything for the pain, as has been the usual reaction to pain his whole life. The Giver explains to Jonas that these memories of pain are important so that the Receiver can give good council to the Committee. At home, Gabriel is growing well, but is still sleeping poorly at night. Jonas's father says it is unlikely that a decision would be made to Release him soon, because another Release is already expected due of the upcoming birth of male twins. If identical, one will be Released by Jonas's father. Jonas asks his parents to put Gabriel's crib in his room for the night, and inadvertently sooths the restless newchild with a memory of a beautiful lake. He realizes this was probably an error, and resolves not to tell anyone

The Giver Chapter 13

Today we had a quiz on chapters 8-10.
We then had an in class writing assignment
in which students wrote about their collective
memory of the September school festival.

Students were arranged in groups of four and they answered the following questions:

1. Where do people keep their memories?
2. Where do groups of people keep their memories?
3. How are memories passed from generation to generation?
4. In society who decides which memories are worth teaching?
5. What can we learn from other people's memories?

HOMEWORK
-read chapters 14-16
-do chapter 11-13 book Qs
-do chapter 11-13 vocabulary

QUIZ NEXT THURSDAY ON CHAPTERS 11-13

Chapter 13

Weeks pass and Jonas sees colors more and more. He struggles to understand why there are no choices about color in the community and The Giver explains that if people are given choices then they might make the wrong one, which is why people are protected by Sameness. Jonas tries secretly to show his friends and family some of what he has learned; however, his attempts are rebuffed with unawareness and annoyance. As he continues his training, Jonas tries to understand the importance of his new role. The Giver tells him that his life will become the memories that he holds and the occasional requests for council and advice from the Committee of Elders. He tells Jonas that when the previous Receiver-in-Training failed the memories and knowledge she had were not contained and caused a number of problems until they were re-assimilated. Some days Jonas is unable to train because The Giver is in too much pain because of the memories he carries. Finally, he asks The Giver to give some of that pain to him.

The Giver Chapter 12

Students today worked in pairs and found the top events
for this chapter.

HOMEWORK
-read chapter 13
-story due Friday

QUIZ ON CHAPTERS 8-10 FRIDAY

Chapter 12

At his morning meal, Jonas lies to his parents and tells them that he did not have a dream the night before. At school, he feels strange as he is not allowed to discuss his training like the other Twelves. He notices something different about Fiona's hair that day and tells The Giver about it, and also the way the crowd changed at the Ceremony of Twelve and the apple. The Giver explains to him that he is beginning to see the color red and that soon Jonas will be able to see all the colors.

The Giver Chapter 11

In class we talked about what a MEMORY is and students talked
to their partners about what memory they would have shared first
with Jonas.

HOMEWORK
-read chapter 12

Chapter 11

Lying on his stomach on a bed in the man's office, Jonas experiences the first passed memory. With the man's hands on his back, he finds himself no longer in the office, but on a snowy hill where he takes an exhilarating sled ride. Just as suddenly, he finds himself back in the office. The man passes a few more memories to Jonas, who does not find it unpleasant, even when the memory is of a painful sunburn. The man explains that the memories have to do with weather, something that was taken away with the decision for Sameness. As Jonas leaves for the evening, he asks the man what he should call him. The man tells him to call him The Giver.

The Giver Chapter 10

Today we talked about chapter 10 and we had a chapters 3-5 quiz.

Homework
-Chapters 8-10 Book Qs
-Chapters 8-10 vocabulary sheet
-Unit #9 story due Friday.
-Study for chapters 6-7 quiz on Wednesday.

Reading to do:
chapter 11 before Wednesday
chapter 12 before Thursday
chapter 13 before Friday

Chapter 10

Jonas meets with the Receiver of Memory for his first day of training. This man tells him that his training is going to involve the transmission of all the memories within him, and that he, Jonas, is now the Receiver. He tells Jonas that all of his remaining energy and strength will go into giving the memories of the whole world to Jonas. Jonas is confused by the idea of the whole world and of history. The man tries to explain to him using a metaphor of snow and sledding, but Jonas does not know about those things. So, the man determines that this is the first memory he will pass to Jonas.

The Giver Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Jonas, reeling from his unexpected selection as the Receiver in training, feels separated from the community for the first time in his life. His parents tell him that it is the most important position in the community and a great honor. He asks about the previous failure, and they tell him that they never saw her again and that they are never to mention her name. Jonas reviews the folder with the instructions about his new position. The instructions surprise him as many of them exempt him from what is normally expected of community members, including giving him permission to lie.

The Giver Chapter 8

Chapter 8

The Chief Elder issues an apology both to the community and to Jonas himself, for the anguish she caused them in skipping over his name. She explains that this is because Jonas has not been given an Assignment. Instead, he has been Selected as the community's next Receiver of Memory. This selection has been years in the making and she refers to a previous failure that Jonas does not know about, but clearly discomforts the adults of the community. She tells Jonas that the Receiver must have intelligence, integrity, courage, and wisdom, skills which they believe he has or will have, in addition to the Capacity to See Beyond. Jonas recognizes that this sight is somehow related to the strange incident with the apple, and experiences the sensation again as he looks to the crowd. The community then honors and accepts him in his new role by chanting his name over and over.

The Giver Chapter 7

Chapter 7

The Ceremony of Twelve begins. When it is his friend Asher's turn, the Chief Elder recalls a time in the boy's youth when he was unable to distinguish between the words âsmackâ and âsnack,â which resulted in repeated physical punishments and led him to stop speaking for a time. In spite of the embarrassing story, Asher's Assignment as the Assistant Director of Recreation is a good one. Jonas watches as the Elevens before him are given Assignments that seem to suit and please them from the Chief Elder. When it is his turn, however, his number and name are passed over, an event which shocks and unsettles him and the rest of the community.

HOMEWORK

-chapters 6-7 book Qs

-chapters 6-7 vocabulary Qs

-read chapters 8-9 for Thursday

- do pleasantville Qs

FRIDAY QUIZ ON CHAPTERS 3-5

The Giver Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The two-day Ceremony has arrived. Jonas must wait, because the Ceremony of Twelve, when he will receive his Assignment, is the last Ceremony on the second day. The entire community gathers in the Auditorium. It begins with the Naming Ceremony, when the newchilds are assigned to families. Gabriel is not being assigned to a family and has been given the unusual concession of being allowed an extra year to develop properly while staying with Jonas's family. Jonas waits impatiently through the first and the second day for the Ceremony of Twelve

Pleasantville Movie

David Wagner (Tobey Maguire) is a Nineties kid with a Fifties addiction. He's hooked on reruns of a classic television show called "Pleasantville," set in a simple place where everyone is swell and perky. David immerses himself in "Pleasantville" as an innocent escape from the trouble-plagued real world that he must share with his ultra-hip, totally popular twin sister, Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon). But one evening, life takes a bizarre twist when a peculiar repairman (Don Knotts) gives him a strange remote control, which zaps David and his sister straight into Pleasantville.

Trapped in a radically different dimension, David and Jennifer find themselves cast as members of the TV family, the Parkers. David has become "Bud" and Jennifer has been transformed into "Mary Sue," and they are surrounded by the black and white suburbia that once kept David glued to the tube for hours. Books have no words, the high school basketball team always wins, and nobody ever questions why things are always so perfect. Initially, David revels in the prozac-like haze that has gripped Pleasantville. But when Jennifer brings her Nineties-like attitude into this unsuspecting era of blandness, things start to happen in living color. All the repressed desires of life in the Fifties begin to boil up through the people of Pleasantville, changing their lives in strange and wonderful ways that none of them had even dared to dream of, until they were visited by two kids from the real world.


HOMEWORK
-Read Chapter 7
-Do vocabulary act. 6 before next class

The Giver Chapter 5

In chapter 5 we learned a little bit more about the society
of the story. We listened to a short part of the story and
students worked in groups to try to find the key events.

HOMEWORK
-Read chapter 6
-work on your character lists

Chapter 5

In the morning, as his family shares their dreams from the night before, Jonas, who normally does not have dreams, has something to tell. He explains a dream that involves a bathing room and the female Eleven, Fiona. In his dream, he wanted the girl to undress and get into the bath. His parents let him know that this was his first Stirring. His mother gives him a pill for treatment and tells that he will continue taking the pill until he goes to the House of the Old.

The Giver Chapter 4

We covered chapter 4 today and had a class
discussion on top events for this chapter.


HOMEWORK
-read chapter 5
-do book study Qs for ch 3-5
-do vocabulaty worksheet ch 3-5
-finish your picture activity

Chapter 4

Jonas joins Asher and a female Eleven, Fiona, at the House of the Old to complete some of his required volunteer hours. He helps to bathe one of the Old, a woman named Larissa. She tells him about the celebration of the release of another of the Old, Roberto. She describes a wonderful tribute to his life and a look of joy on his face as he went to the Releasing Room. Jonas asks her what happens in the Releasing Room and she says that she does not know.

The Giver Chapter 3

We reviewed chapter 3 today and students worked in pairs
finding the 3 most important plot events.

HOMEWORK
-Day 1 feelings
-Read chapter 4
-Study for chapters 1-2 quiz for FRIDAY!

Chapter 3

When Jonas's father brings home Gabriel, the newchild, Lily notes that the newchild has strange pale eyes, like Jonas. Lily states a desire to be assigned as a Birthmother because of the good food and relative pampering but is reminded that such an Assignment is not a good one, because after three births, all Birthmothers become common laborers. Because of her talkative nature, Jonas thinks to himself that she would make a good Speaker. He then recalls with embarrassment a recent incident when the Speaker gave an address directed towards him. He took an apple home from the recreation area to examine because he had briefly seen something different about it and in doing so had violated the rules about removing snacks from the recreation area and hoarding food.

The Giver Chapters 1-2

We talked about "values" in class today.

Students were give a piece of paper in which they
listed their top 3 things that they could not live
with out.

We then had an auction in which students had $100
in play money and they could each buy one value.

The most popular value was sleep.

HOMEWORK
-Answer the 3 Q s from the chalk board
-read chapter 3

Chapter 1

Jonas is troubled by the approaching month of December. It is not, he determines, the frightened feeling that he had when a strange aircraft passed over his community and all of the citizens had been ordered by loudspeaker to go indoors. Jonas, unlike his friend Asher, who frequently confuses his language, is very precise with the words he chooses and determines that, in addition to feeling eager like the other Elevens, he also feels apprehensive.

That night, Jonas and his family have their evening telling of feelings. His younger sister, Lily, shares her anger at a child from a visiting Childcare group from another community. The family encourages Lily to see that the visitor may not have understood the rules of their community and to feel pity for him rather than anger. Next, Jonas's father reveals his worry about a newchild at work who may be released from the community. He tells the family that he has asked to bring the newchild home in the evenings for some extra care. When Lily suggests that they might keep the newchild she is reminded of the rules that state that each family will have one male and one female child. Jonas's mother shares her feelings of frustration and anger at a man she has had to punish twice in her position at the Department of Justice. She is fearful of the event of a third transgression, for which he would be released from the community. Lastly, Jonas reveals his apprehension about the Ceremony of Twelve, which is coming in December.

Chapter 2

After revealing his feelings of apprehension, Jonas and his parents have a private discussion. Jonas reflects on his memories of the ceremonies of previous years, such as the day his sister was named and assigned to his family. Jonas's father discusses his own Ceremony of Twelve and his Assignment as a Nurturer. He and Jonas's mother try to ease Jonas's concerns by assuring him that the Elders make Assignments carefully. They also remind him that the Ceremony of Twelve is the last Ceremony and that it marks his transition from his childhood to training for adult life.

Today's Lesson

We will be in The PC room and I will divide the class into 5 groups of 4 students.

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HOMEWORK

-Finish Utopia PC research questions use A4 or B5 paper
-Read chapter 2 THE GIVER
-Do vocabulary workbook ch 1-2 QS
-Do Study Guide book Qs ch 1-2

Welcome back!

We worked in groups and did a survey about what is important in society.

HOMEWORK: -pages 1-2 of the class handout.

About: The Giver

Jonas, an Eleven, is apprehensive about the approaching Ceremony of Twelve. His friends Asher, Fiona and the others of his year seem to naturally fit into a certain Assignment. His mother and father are both matched well to their Assignments and even his little sister Lily demonstrates some early inclinations to where she might be Assigned. He, however, has never felt a particular draw to any one thing.

Jonas's community is ordered by tight rules, and multiple transgressions will result in Release from the community to Elsewhere. Newchildren who do not develop as expected and the Old are also Released. But Jonas is not concerned with those things. He is a good student and obeys the community rules, except for one instance of being singled out for removing an apple from the recreation area.

At the long anticipated ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is shocked when the Chief Elder announces that he has not been Assigned, but rather Selected as the community's next Receiver of Memory. It is a very rare event and a position of great importance.

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