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Pre-Reading: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Previewing:

What do you see on the front cover? How many chapters are there? What does the back of the book tell you about Lois Lowry? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Predict/Support: Make a prediction about the book based on the cover/ title: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Activate Prior Knowledge: A Utopia is a perfect world or a perfect society. What would you want your perfect world to look like? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name 8 things you would have in your perfect world: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name 8 things you would NOT have in your perfect world: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter One

1. On the first page, Jonas remembers a time that he was actually “frightened”. Describe this event: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Would you have been frightened by this event? ________ Explain. __________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. The book refers to people being “released”. What do you think this means? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Jonas’ friend Asher often confuses words. Asher says that he was distraught when he was watching the crew at the salmon hatchery. What does he really mean? ______________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Describe the evening ritual that takes place every night after dinner at Jonas’ house. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect: Make a connection to the “evening ritual” at Jonas’ house and you’re your house at night. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is Jonas’ father’s job? _____________________________________________________

6. Describe what you think Jonas’ father does at his job. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. What is Jonas’ mother’s job? _____________________________________________________

8. Why is Jonas feeling apprehensive? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. What title would you give to this chapter? Remember, you are looking for the main idea. ____________________________________________________________________________

The GiverCeremony Chart

At the Ceremony, the entire Community celebrates the new age for the children. List the changes that take place for each of the age groups. You will need to use chapters 1 – 8.

Age What are the changes…….. Why is this important

Ones

Threes

Sevens

Eights

Nines

Tens

Elevens

Twelves

The GiverChapter Two

1. What happens at the ceremony of the Ones: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How many children are in each age group? ________

2. Who is Gabriel? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How old was Jonas when they received Lily? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Dad tells Jonas about his own ceremony. What does he tell Jonas? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monitor your Reading:

What do you get as a “nine” :_______________________

What do you get as an “eleven”:___________________________

Connect: What assignment do you think you would get? Why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Why is Jonas concerned about Asher? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What is Lily’s comfort item? ____________________________________________________7. What was Jonas’s comfort item? _________________________________________________8. What title would you give this chapter? ____________________________________________

Make an inference:

What does Jonas’ world think of animals?:_____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ___________________________

The Giver

Chapter Three

1. What does baby Gabriel have in common with Jonas? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Why does Gabe come to Jonas’ house? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Jonas’ little sister loves babies and says she would like to be a birthmother. What are the pros and cons to this assignment?Pros____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Cons____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Jonas remembers a strange incident he has at school. Describe what happened with the apple. (3 sentences)____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What title would you give this chapter? ____________________________________________

Predict: What do you think is the importance of the apple? Support your prediction. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Four

1. How does Jonas feel about doing volunteer hours? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. How old are the children in Jonas’s world when they start doing volunteer hours? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Who does Jonas find working at the House of the Old?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What duty or duties is Jonas given at the House of the Old? Explain. (3 sentences)________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Who is Larissa? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Larissa describes Roberto’s release. What does she say happened?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Connect: We don’t have “Houses of the Old” but we do have something similar. Make a connection to the idea of the “House of the Old”. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Giver

Chapter Five

1. What is the morning ritual that is held every morning in Jonas’s community? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. At what age does dream telling begin? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Who was in Jonas’s dream?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What does Mom say that Jonas is experiencing?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is the treatment for the above? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Monitor: There is a saying, “the stirring of one’s heart.” What do you think this means? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Six

1. What is beginning to happen at the start of chapter 6? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Who attends the ceremonies? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How long do the ceremonies last?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Gabe is not included in the Naming and Placements of the Ones. Why not?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Where do people go when they are released? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. One family receives a Replacement Child. What happened to the first Caleb?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Reread the last page of the chapter: How are spouses chosen? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What does this say about the community? _______________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Seven

Predict: What do you think Jonas’s assignment will be? Support your prediction. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

1. What is Jonas’s Birth number? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What are the assignments for the following Twelves? Madeline ____________________________________Inger ____________________________________Isaac ____________________________________Asher ____________________________________Fiona ____________________________________

3. What happens when they get to Jonas?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Why do you think this happened?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Connect: Have you ever been skipped or excluded from something? Describe when this has happened to you and how did you feel? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Eight

1. Who makes the speech for the Ceremony of the Twelves? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. She tells the Community and Jonas that he was selected. Selected for what? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What qualities does Jonas need to have?a. ___________________________________b. ___________________________________c. ___________________________________d. ___________________________________e. ___________________________________

4. What happens when Jonas looks at the crowd of faces?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Why does the Community chant Jonas’s name? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect: What emotion would you be experiencing if you were Jonas? Why would you feel this way? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Nine

Predict: What do you think the job of “Receiver of Memory” will be? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Jonas has many rules and instructions. Describe each rule and how Jonas feels about each one.

Description of Rule/Instruction How Jonas feels about this rule….

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Connect: What assignment do you think would be given to you and why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Ten

Visualize a scene:

Describe the Receiver of Memory’s room. Include at least 5 descriptions:_______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

1. What was the “most obvious” difference between the Receiver’s dwelling and Jonas’s dwelling? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What types of books are in Jonas’s home? What type is missing?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Make an Inference: Why might a community such as this not want its citizens to have books? _______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect: Name all of the types of books you have in your house?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What is your favorite book and why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Why didn’t Jonas know what snow was? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What was it about the speaker that astonished Jonas? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Give this chapter a title: ________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Eleven

6. How does the Receiver transmit memories to Jonas? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. What is Jonas’s first memory? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Connect:

Describe your earliest memory. How old were you:

_______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. What happened to snow? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. What happened to hills? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monitor your reading:

Why is this book called The Giver?

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10. In the sentence, “But you know, even transmitting that tiny memory to you—I think it lightened me just a little,” what does transmitting mean: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


The GiverChapter Twelve

1. What does Jonas notice about Fiona? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What other two items “changed” for Jonas? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Why doesn’t The Giver have to transmit the memory of the sled to Jonas? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Activate Prior Knowledge:

What do you know about sledding that would make it not exist in Jonas’s world?:

_______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What is Jonas beginning to see? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Why is The Giver going to give Jonas a memory of a rainbow?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monitor your reading:

In order to go to sameness, what did the community eliminate?

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The GiverChapter Thirteen

Make a connection:

Would you like to live in a world of Sameness – a world in which there were no choices? Explain why or why not. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

1. Jonas tried to transmit color to Asher. He also tried to give Lily the memory of an elephant. Do you think he was breaking the rules given to him? Why or why not? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Where was The Giver’s former spouse? Why? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. According to The Giver, why would having a spouse be difficult for Jonas? Do you agree? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What happened to the memories that had been given to the previous Receiver-in-training when she failed? What was the result? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Predict/Support:

Make a prediction: what is the painful memory involving a sled that The Giver gives to Jonas?

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The Giver Chapters Twelve & Thirteen

Jonas lives in a world without color for “sameness.” Do you think color provides more positive or negative impression? Would sameness be more or less desirable? Fill in the chart below with positive and negative images associated with the colors. Be prepared to share your answers to the above questions and your chart.

COLOR POSITIVE IMAGE NEGATIVE IMAGE

Red

Blue

Yellow

Orange

Green

Purple

The GiverChapter Fourteen

1. What memory that is worse than “sunburn” does The Giver transmit to Jonas? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Make an inference:

Do you think Jonas still believed it was an honor to have been selected Receiver? Cite a phrase from the book to support your opinion.

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2. The Giver explains to Jonas that he will gain something by being the holder of the memories. What will Jonas gain? __________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________

3. What is wrong with Gabriel? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What happens when twins are born? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is “Elsewhere?”____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. How did Jonas calm Gabriel when the newchild squirmed fretfully? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


The Giver Chapter 15

Imagery is vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste). Listen to Chapter 15 and list examples of the following from the text:

See (7) Hear (5) Smell (3) Touch (3) Taste (2)

1. What is the setting? ____________________________________________________________

2. Why did The Giver ask Jonas to forgive him? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


The GiverChapter Sixteen

Make an Inference:

Why had Jonas never seen a birthday party before?:

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Connect:

Describe your favorite birthday celebration:

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1. What is The Giver’s favorite memory?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What puzzled Jonas most about The Giver’s favorite memory? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Where can Jonas find the names of his parents’ parents? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What do Jonas’s parents say about love? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What does Jonas tell Gabriel? ___________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________

6. How does Jonas break the rules at the end of the chapter? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________


The GiverChapter Seventeen

1. “And his new, heightened feelings permeated a greater realm than simply his sleep.” What does permeated mean? ________________________________________________________

2. How is Jonas changing? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How does Jonas react to Asher’s game of “good guys/bad guys”? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Make an inference:

Why can’t Asher and Fiona understand Jonas’s reaction to the “good guys/bad guys” game?:

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4. What does father bring home from work in case Gabriel misbehaves?____________________ ____________________________________________________________________________

Activate Prior Knowledge:

What do you know about identical twins?:

_______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Why does Father want to go to sleep early? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What happens to identical twins? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Eighteen

1. Why can’t Jonas ask for release? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Who is Rosemary? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. The Giver tells Jonas, “And she listened carefully. Her eyes were very luminous, I remember.” What does luminous mean? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What was the first memory of pain that The Giver transferred to Rosemary?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. After Rosemary’s release, what happened to the community? __________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What does Jonas propose to The Giver?____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Predict and Support:

The author used foreshadowing near the end of the chapter when The Giver said, “I suppose I could help the whole community the way I’ve helped you…maybe we’ll talk about it again sometime.” Predict what might happen after Jonas and The Giver ‘talk about it again:”

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The GiverChapter Nineteen

1. What is release? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. How does the actual release of the twin differ from what Father had described?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Make an Inference:

Death often reminds us of death. Why does the community want to eliminate death?:

_______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What memory did the newchild’s death bring back to The Giver?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Why does The Giver imply that Rosemary is brave?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Predict:

What do you think Jonas will do with the information he received from watching the release?

_______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


The GiverChapter Twenty

1. Why didn’t Jonas want to return home? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What does Jonas learn about what happens to the Old? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. The Giver and Jonas make a plan. Why will the Giver not go with Jonas?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Like Jonas, The Giver had the ability to “sense” beyond, what could The Giver do?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monitor your reading: In your own words, describe The Giver’s and Jonas’s plan:

__________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Who is The Giver’s daughter? ____________________________________________________

Predict and Support:

Do you think the plan will work? Why or why not? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________

6. Give this chapter a title _________________________________________________________

The GiverChapter Twenty-one

Letter of Farewell – Imagine you are Jonas. Before you escape from the community, you decide to write a letter of farewell. You may address your letter to any of the following characters: Mother, Father, Lily, Asher, Fiona, or The Giver. Remember to sign your letter!

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1. Why was Jonas forced to change his plan? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What rules did Jonas break? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How did Jonas and Gabriel keep hidden from the heat-seeking devices on the search planes? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What happened to Jonas’s memories? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Give this chapter a title _________________________________________________________The GiverChapter Twenty-two

1. How was the landscape changing? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Imagery:

Describe some of the new and good experiences that Jonas and Gabe have on their journey. Use sensory details.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________

2. Now that Jonas and Gabe were away from the community, what was Jonas’s greatest fear?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How did Jonas’s memories help him now?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monitor your Reading:

Jonas was starving, but he realized that if he stayed in the community, he would have been “starved” in other ways. What would Jonas have been “hungry” for?

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4. What were some of the dangers/negative experiences facing Jonas and Gabe?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


The GiverChapter Twenty-three

Connect:

Would you have made the same decision to leave as Jonas did? Support your answer with text evidence.

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1. Jonas and Gabriel were cold and tired. Gabriel was getting weaker and weaker. How did Jonas find the strength to go on?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. When Jonas reaches the top of the hill, why does he say, “I remember this place, Gabe.”________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What happened to Jonas and Gabriel when they reached the bottom of the hill? Why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Write a Review:

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not? Describe your favorite scene.

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Write an additional scene to The Giver. Tell what happened to Jonas and Gabriel. You may include information about additional characters such as The Giver, Mother, Father, Fiona, Asher, Lily, etc. Write an outline of your scene before you write the final copy below. Be sure to use dialogue. Must be 3-5 paragraphs.

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