Thursday, January 17, 2008

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.