1 / 10

The Giver

The Giver. By: Lois Lowery. Character Chart. Jonas The Giver Jonas’s Father Jonas’s Mother Lily Gabriel Asher Fiona Larissa The Chief Elder. Pre Reading Activity. Rock- Task you must do -Breathing -Eating -Drinking -Medicine When Sick Pebble – Task you should do -Homework

field
Download Presentation

The Giver

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Giver By: Lois Lowery

  2. Character Chart Jonas The Giver Jonas’s Father Jonas’s Mother Lily Gabriel Asher Fiona Larissa The Chief Elder

  3. Pre Reading Activity Rock- Task you must do -Breathing -Eating -Drinking -Medicine When Sick Pebble – Task you should do -Homework -Bathing - Going to School -Go to Practice Water- Task you do if time - Watch TV -Play Video Games - Shopping -Listening to Music

  4. Pre-Reading Activity Activity 1: Make a list of rock, pebble, and water tasks How much time do you spend on each activity throughout your week? Activity 2: Make a list of rules you follow at home and at school Which rules are unnecessary? Which rules are necessary?

  5. Utopia “A Perfect Society” – Pleasantville Clip Modern Day Utopian Societies- elainefitzgerald.com If you were in charge of making a new town, how would you design it? -What would your rules be? -Who could visit? Who would live there? Criteria? -Could residents leave? -Would there be a theme? -Would you have technology? What kind?

  6. Genetic Engineering “Cloning” for desired traits Bill Nye The Science Guy “Genes” 15:20- 19:48 What benefits can genetic engineering have for humans? What harms can genetic engineering have for humans?

  7. Essential Questions “I’d rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.” -Jimmy Cliff 1. What would you give up to be free? 2. What would a perfect world look like? 3. How could you have no crime, no happiness, no violence, no jealousy, etc? 4. What things would you have to give up? Would it be worth it?

  8. Activity Packet • A booklet of 10 different activities that must be completed and turned in by the end of the novel. • Assemble all activities in a folder, binder, or some other cohesive method. • Please do not turn in until all activities are complete • Mrsscherrman.weebly.com

  9. Vocabulary • Distraught • Adhere • Aptitude • Chastise • Nurture • Hoard • Disquieting • Disposition • Chortle • Empathy 11. Tentative 12. Frigid • Obsolete • Benign • Jaunty • Indolent • Unnerve • Excruciating • Intricate • Conspicuous • Intrigue • Palpable • Apprehensive • Wheedle • Sift

  10. Vocabulary Continued • Transgression • Manifest • Ebb • Nondescript • Enhance • Supplementary • Solace • Permeate • Languid • Frazzle • Dejected • Meticulous • Assuage • Assimilate • Petulant • Admonish • Escalate • Magnitude • Utopia • Sinuous • Suppress • Exuberant • Indulge • Luminous • Haphazard

More Related