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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…. Your Topic. Characters: 200. Question: Who is the protagonist of The Giver ? Answer Jonas. Back. Characters: 400. Question: Who is the old man who’s name gets changed when Jonas becomes Receiver-in-Training? Answer The Giver. Back. Characters: 600.

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  1. Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…

  2. Your Topic

  3. Characters: 200 • Question: • Who is the protagonist of The Giver? • Answer • Jonas Back

  4. Characters: 400 • Question: • Who is the old man who’s name gets changed when Jonas becomes Receiver-in-Training? • Answer • The Giver Back

  5. Characters: 600 • Question: • Who is the trainee who studies the fine art of release? • Answer • Fiona Back

  6. Characters: 800 • Question: • Who works at the Department of Law and Justice? • Answer • Jonas’s mother Back

  7. Characters: 1000 • Question: • Who falls in the river and is lost, but is later replaced? • Answer • Caleb Back

  8. Compare and Contrast: 200 • Question: • What do Jonas and Rosemary have in common? • Answer • They were both Receivers-in-training. • (They were both loved by the Giver.) Back

  9. Compare and Contrast: 400 • Question: • What is one difference between Jonas and Rosemary? (non-answer: one boy, one girl) • Answer • Jonas was successfully training; Rosemary wanted to be released as a result of her training Back

  10. Compare and Contrast: 600 • Question: • What is the major difference between families in Jonas’s community and families in our society? • Answer • Our families experience love and emotional attachment; their families are assigned. Back

  11. Compare and Contrast: 800 • Question: • What is one major difference between the government of Jonas’s community and ours? • Answer • We have a president; they have the Elders. • We vote; Elders make the decisions. • We have freedom of choice; they don’t. Back

  12. Compare and Contrast: 1000 • Question: • Think about Gender roles in the community in terms of equality. Are both genders treated equally? Give one example. • Answer • Yes. Jonas’s dad’s job is just as important as his mom’s. Back

  13. Memories: 200 • Question: • What memory did Jonas attempt to give Lily? • Answer • The memory of the death of the elephant. Back

  14. Memories: 400 • Question: • What did Jonas learn from the memory of crashing on the sled? • Answer • Physical pain Back

  15. Memories: 600 • Question: • How does Jonas help Gabe sleep? • Answer • He transfers the memory of the sailboat to calm him. Back

  16. Memories: 800 • Question: • Which memory caused Jonas to feel “loss,” when he realized that he was no longer like his friends. • Answer • The memory of war. Back

  17. Memories: 1000 • Question: • Which is the most important memory that Jonas is given? Why? • Answer • The Christmas memory; he learns love and that his family does not love him. He begins to see that he is different from his family and the rest of the community. Back

  18. The Community: 200 • Question: • What do the numbers assigned to each newchild signify? • Answer • The order of their birth Back

  19. The Community: 400 • Question: • What is the name of the land that lies beyond the river? • Answer • Elsewhere Back

  20. The Community: 600 • Question: • What is the nightly ritual that Jonas hated? • Answer • The sharing of feelings Back

  21. The Community: 800 • Question: • Which month are the ceremonies held in? • Answer • December Back

  22. The Community: 1000 • Question: • What is the experience that each member of the community takes a pill for? • Answer • Stirrings Back

  23. Misc.: 200 • Question: • What event at the beginning of the book scared Jonas? Why did it scare him? • Answer • The plane flying over the community; because it was a new experience and planes never fly over the community. Back

  24. Misc.: 400 • Question: • What is the cause of Jonas taking Gabriel away from the community? • Answer • He finds out from his father that Gabe will be released. Back

  25. Misc.: 600 • Question: • Why do Jonas’s parents say that they don’t love Jonas? • Answer • Because love is too vague a word. They don’t understand the word because they’ve never experienced it. Back

  26. Misc.: 800 • Question: • How does Jonas keep the search planes from finding him and Gabriel? • Answer • He transmits the memories of cold so that the heat-seeking planes don’t locate them. Back

  27. Misc.: 1000 • Question: • Why is Jonas not permitted to apply for Release? • Answer • If Jonas left the community, all of the memories would go to the citizens and create chaos. Back

  28. Final Jeopardy: wager pts. • Question: • What does the author think is more important: the individual or the community? Why? • Answer • The author feels the individual is more important because the reader sees the downfalls of putting the community first through Jonas’s experiences. Back

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