7th Grade ELA Unit 1 Performance Task

By Tyehimba Shabazz

October 18, 2012

Character One:Jonas

Adversity: Jonas is chosen to be the receiver in his community and during his training he discovers that his community isn’t everything that he thought it was an he wants to show the people of his community that memories and feelings that he received as the receiver and that they’re not actually living in a perfect world.

Textual Evidence: On pages 59 – 64 it show Jonas being chosen as the Receiver of Memory.

Character One:Jonas

How He Perseveres Through His Adversity: Jonas and The Giver come up with a plan to release all of the memories that he received to the community. He was going to run away from his community because if he ran away, the memories would slip away and be released into the community.

Textual Evidence: On pages 154 – 156 The Giver and Jonas are making the plan.

Character Two:Jimmy Valentine

Adversity: Jimmy Valentine is a thief and he cracks safes. He gets arrested and when he gets out of jail he goes back to his crimes and robs safes again. Because of this, a detective named Ben Price takes up the trail of this elusive cracksman.

Textual Evidence: In the story, it says that a week after Valentine, there was a safe burglary done in Richmond, Indiana. After Ben Price investigated it, he concluded that it was Jimmy Valentine’s doing.

Character Two:Jimmy Valentine

How He Perseveres Through Adversity: Jimmy Valentine goes to a town called Elmore and he ends up falling in love with a woman named Annabel Adams. Because of this, he seems to change his personality and habits to be with her.

Textual Evidence: In the book it says that when he looked into her eyes, he forgot what he was and became another man.

Character Three:Ernie

Adversity: Ernie was a child with a mind that didn’t process things as fast as other people did. His mind didn’t develop as fast and he couldn’t understand certain things at certain ages.

Textual Evidence: In the book it says that Ernie wouldn’t be able to speak sentences until he was six years old. He couldn’t sing a simple song until he was ten. When he turned twelve, he would be able to understand what a joke was.

Character Three:Ernie

How He Perseveres Through His Adversity: Ernie opens up to a person named Jack who works at his group home. Jack made a large garden in the backyard of the house and that got Ernie interested in Jack because he liked the idea of gardening. Then one day he saw a woman named Dolores and fell in love with her. Then he started growing flowers for her and secretly delivering them to hr everyday.

Textual Evidence: In the book it says that when he looked out of the window of the restaurant, he saw a dark-haired woman wearing jeans and a black t-shirt unlocking the front doors of the building, and that’s when he fell in love with Dolores.

Reflections

Character One: Jonas overcame his adversity by leaving his town and releasing the memories that he had to the people of the town.

Character Two: Jimmy Valentine overcame his adversity by changing his personality and habits for the better.

Character Three: Ernie overcame his adversity because he fell in love with Dolores and that changed his personality so that he would be less shy and afraid of being in public.