Week of April 23-27th

* Read Chapters 15-19 on "The Giver" 
        -Orally answer the questions an each chapter. 
        -Classroom discussion on the chapters will take place on Friday.

Week of April 30- May 4th

* Read Chapters 20-23 on "The Giver"
        -Orally answer the questions an each chapter. 
        -Classroom discussion on the chapters will take place on Friday.

The Giver 

Chapters 15-23

Chapter 15 and Chapter 16
 1. What memory did The Giver transmit to Jonas in order to rid himself of some of the pain?
 2. How did Jonas feel as he watched children at play and citizens going about their work?
 3. What favorite memory did The Giver transfer to Jonas?
 4. Why didn’t Jonas understand the concept of Grandparents?
 5. What was the strong feeling that Jonas sensed in the memory of the family celebration?
 6. Why did Jonas conclude that it was better for families to be organized, like they were in the community?
 7. Describe the reaction of Jonas’s parents when he asked them if they loved him?
 8. What happened when Gabriel was taken from Jonas’s room after sleeping there for four nights?
 9. What had Jonas been doing in secret?
 10. Why didn’t Jonas take his pill the next morning?

Chapter 17
 1. What had happened during the four weeks that Jonas had not taken the pills?
 2. What did Jonas realize about the game that Asher and the children were playing?.
3. What led Jonas to the certainty that he could change nothing?
 4. What duty would Jonas’s father have to perform the next day?
 5. What Assignment did Mother think would be appropriate for Lily?

 Chapter 18
 1. What did The Giver remember about Rosemary?
 2. How did The Giver feel about Rosemary?
 3. What did The Giver transmit to Rosemary when he couldn’t bring himself to inflict physical pain upon her?
 4. What had Rosemary done one afternoon when she had finished her training for the day?
 5. Where would Jonas’s memories go if something happened to him?


Chapter 19 and Chapter 20
 1. Explain how Jonas was able to watch his father perform the release ceremony for the newchild twin.
 2. How was Jonas able to understand what his father had done to the newchild?
 3. What did The Giver see when he watched Rosemary’s release?
 4. Why were people like Jonas’s father and Fiona able to perform releases so calmly?
 5. Who was the only qualified candidate who could possibly replace Jonas as a Receiver?
 6. What memory had The Giver been selfishly keeping for himself?
 7. What was the goal for the plan The Giver and Jonas formulated?
 8. How did The Giver plan to get Jonas out of the community?
 9. What was the purpose of hiding Jonas’s bicycle and clothing near the river?
10. Where did The Giver want to be when his work for the community was finished?

Chapter 21
 1. Why did Jonas pedal past the annex as he fled in the night?
 2. How did Jonas say goodbye to The Giver?
 3. Why was Jonas forced to flee the community without carrying out the plan that he and The Giver had formulated?
 4. What transportation did Jonas choose for his escape?
 5. Explain how Jonas was able to keep Gabriel quiet during their escape?.
 6. What schedule did Jonas follow to make the escape safer?
 7. Though he knew he had enough strength, what did Jonas wish he could have received from The Giver?
 8. How did Jonas keep the search planes from locating him and Gabriel with their heat-seeking devices?
 9. Describe the landscape that Jonas found after he had been pedaling through the night for days.
 10. How did the terror of the search planes end?

 Chapter 22 and Chapter 23
 1. As Jonas and Gabriel continued on their journey, how did the landscape change?
 2. Though the searchers were gone, what desperate fear built in Jonas?
 3. What unfamiliar geographical feature and weather event did Jonas and Gabriel encounter?
 4. Why did both Gabriel and Jonas cry?
 5. As Jonas felt more certain that Elsewhere was not far away, what weather change dashed his hope that he and Gabriel would reach it?
 6. Why did Jonas finally abandon the bicycle?
 7. Why did Jonas share the memory of sunshine with Gabriel, though for a second he had wanted to keep it for himself?
 8. What was special about the memories that came to Jonas as he approached the hill’s summit?
 9. Explain how Gabriel and Jonas traveled down the hill.
10. What did Jonas hear as he and Gabriel raced toward the twinkling lights?