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?

The Giver Project 

Symbolism

Due by: March 8th  

Week of Feb. 26- March 2nd


Questions on chapters 12,13,and 14 are due on February 28th.



Chapter 12

 1. What problem was Gabriel having?
 2. What dream had come to Jonas as he slept?
 3. Why didn’t Jonas join his classmates as they talked about their first day of training?
 4. As Jonas watched Fiona walk away, what happened to her hair?
 5. What was The Giver’s explanation for the strange thing that Jonas saw in the apple, the people’s faces, Fiona’s hair, the sled, and the books?
6. Why was the quality that Jonas saw in the sled unchanging while the quality in the other objects were fleeting?
7. Back in time, what had Jonas and The Giver’s people done to color?
 8. How did Jonas feel about his people’s decision to gain control of many things by letting go of others?
 9. How did The Giver feel about the decisions their people had made long ago?
10. What was the next memory that The Giver gave Jonas?



Chapter 13

 1. What was Jonas’s reason for saying the absence of color was not fair?
 2. Why did Jonas find that he was often angry?
 3. Who were the three people to whom Jonas attempted to transmit a memory?
 4. What disturbing and startling memory did The Giver transmit to Jonas?
 5. If Jonas chose to have a spouse and children, what would he not be able to share with them?
6. What happened when the memories from the failed Receiver were released?
 7. What did The Giver say about facts and memories?
 8. Why was Jonas sent away some afternoons without training?
 9. What did Jonas wonder as he stood at the foot of the bridge that spanned the river and led to outlying communities?
10. Why did Jonas ask The Giver to transmit pain to him?

Chapter 14

 1. What painful memory did The Giver add to the second sled ride?
 2. How did The Giver explain the necessity of painful memories?
 3. Explain how The Giver used the memory of overpopulation, starvation, and warfare to advise the Committee of Elders.
 4. Why was The Receiver vital to the community?
 5. Though both he and The Receiver wanted it, why did it seem to Jonas that nothing could be changed?
  6. Why did Father think the newchild Gabriel might be released?
 7. What responsibility would Father face when the male twins were born?
 8. What partial memory did Jonas accidentally transmit to Gabriel?
 9. When Jonas purposely gave him the rest of the memory, how did Gabriel react?
10. Why did Jonas decide not to tell The Giver that he had given a memory away?

-

Week of Feb. 19-23


Students this is the last week of the 4th six weeks, make sure you study and prepare yourself for the six weeks exam. 


* Questions are due on Feb. 21st. Make sure that you have question and answer.


Chapter 9

1. How did Jonas feel after receiving his assignment?
 2. What did Jonas’s parents tell him about the selection that failed?
 3. Where was Jonas to go for his instruction?
 4. What did Jonas conclude about his exemption from rudeness?
 5. How did Jonas feel about being prohibited from dream telling? 
6. What restriction unnerved him?
 7. What were Jonas’s thoughts about the rule that said he was not permitted to apply for release?
 8. What was the unintentional lie that Jonas had told when he had been a Four?
 9. What frightening, new thought did Jonas have?
10. What problem would Jonas encounter if he asked someone, such as his father, if he lied?


Chapter 10

 1. What did the Attendant do when Jonas entered the Annex lobby?
 2. Why was Jonas surprised that the Receiver’s door was locked? \
3. Compared to Jonas’s home, what was the most conspicuous difference in the Receiver’s living area?
 4. What was the Receiver’s explanation for appearing older that he really was?
 5. Why did the Receiver encourage Jonas to ask questions?
 6. What was the Receiver’s task in training Jonas? \
7. Until he met the Receiver, what had been Jonas’s understanding of “the whole world” and “generations before”?
 8. How had the man received all the memories he held?
 9. Why didn’t Jonas understand when the Receiver talked about riding a sled through snow?
10. Where was Jonas when the Receiver began transmitting the memory of snow to him?


Chapter 11

 1. What was the first memory the man gave to Jonas?
 2. Explain how transmitting the memory to Jonas helped the old man.
 3. Why was Jonas not familiar with sleds, snow, and hills?
 4. How did Jonas feel about the absence of the things in the memory that he had experienced?
 5. Why didn’t the old man tell Jonas beforehand that he was going to transmit the memory of sunshine?
 6. What did Jonas understand about sunshine?
 7. What bothersome question did Jonas ask?
 8. What experience had given the old man the wisdom to start Jonas’s training with pleasurable memories?
 9. What painful memory did the old man transmit to Jonas?
 10. What did the old man tell Jonas to call him?

Week of Feb. 12-16

Questions are due on Wednesday, Feb. 14th.


Chapter 6

 1. Why did Fours, Fives, and Sixes wear jackets that fastened down the back?
 2. What transportation did Jonas’s family use to get to the Auditorium?
 3. What decision had the committee made about Gabriel?
 4. Explain how the placement of the newchild named Caleb was unusual.
 5. Explain how the transgressions of the Nine called Fritz affected his parents and the community.
 6. What was the story that worried Asher?
 7. What option did a member of the community have if he or she didn’t fit in?
 8. How were couples brought together in the community?
 9. What characteristics made Jonas’s parents a good match?
10. Why was Jonas certain that his Assignment, and Asher’s, would be the right one for them?

Chapter 7

 1. At birth, Jonas had been given the number Nineteen. What did this mean?
 2. What position did the Chief Elder hold in the community?
 3. What happened to Asher when he was a Three because he had difficulty with precision of language?
 4. What was Asher’s Assignment?
 5. Why did Jonas bow his head in shame and wonder what he had done wrong?

 Chapter 8

 1. How many people in the community had the job of Receiver?
 2. What had happened ten years earlier when the committee had selected an Eleven as the new Receiver of Memory?
 3. Explain why the Committee of Elders were certain that Jonas was qualified to be the next Receiver of Memory.
 4. Why was courage a requirement for a Receiver-in-training?
 5. What experience led Jonas to believe he had the Capacity to See Beyond as the current Receiver had said?

Week of February 6-9th, 2018


The Giver Chapter Questions

* Chapter 3, 4, and 5 are due by Wend. Feb. 7th

Chapter 3

  1. What did Jonas and the newchild that his father brought home have in common?
 2. What kind of transportation did Jonas’s father use?
 3. What was the name of the newchild’s comfort object?
 4. Why did Mother discourage Lily when she expressed a wish to be a Birthmother?
 5. When did children in the community begin their volunteer hours?
 6. What was the newchild’s name?
 7. What public announcement, specifically directed at Jonas, had been made the month before?
 8. Why were Jonas and Asher playing catch with an apple?
 9. What had happened as Jonas watched the apple?
 10. What kind of clothing did Jonas wear?


Chapter 4

1. Why didn’t Jonas do volunteer hours with his friend Asher very often?
 2. How many years did children work and learn as volunteers?
 3. Why didn’t Jonas talk to the Eleven named Benjamin about his accomplishments?
 4. Whose bicycle was parked beside Asher’s outside the House of the Old?
 5. What work were Jonas and his friends doing in the House of the Old?
 6. What were the rules about nakedness in the community?
 7. What happened during the ceremony of Roberto’s release?
 8. Why hadn’t Larissa been impressed with Edna’s release?
 9. What was Roberto’s mood when he walked thorough the special door in the Releasing Room?
 10. What happened during an actual release?

Chapter 5

  1. What was the vivid dream that Jonas told at the morning ritual?
 2. What did Mother say about the strong feeling that Jonas had during his dream?
 3. Why did Jonas’s parents and his friend Asher take a pill each morning?
 4. How long will Jonas have to take the pills?
 5. What happened when Jonas tried to recall his pleasurable dream?

Week of January 22-26

 This week we will be covering Poetry in class. Please make sure that you study your notes everyday. Also, we will start this week reading "The Giver" Make sure that you read the following chapters and complete the following questions by Jan. 31st. 


The Giver chapter questions:


Chapter 1:
 1. Why had seeing an aircraft flying over his community been a frightening experience for Jonas?
 2. What had Jonas’s friend Asher been required to do when he was late for class?
 3. What was the ritual that Jonas’s family followed at the conclusion of their evening meal?
 4. What explanation did Jonas’s father give to explain why the child visiting Lily’s Childcare group of Sevens did not follow the rules?
 5. Describe the work that Jonas’s father did as a Nurturer.
 6. Why was Jonas’s father worried about the newchild he was nurturing?
 7. Under what two conditions was release from the community not a punishment?
 8. Why wouldn’t Jonas’s family be allowed to keep the troubled newchild that Father wanted to bring home to stay with the them at night?
 9. What position did Jonas’s mother hold?
10. What was the name of the December event that Jonas was worried about?



Chapter 2:
 1. How many new children were in the group presented at the yearly December ceremonies?
 2. What rule had Jonas’s father broken?
 3. What was one of the few rules that was not taken very seriously and was almost always broken in the community?
 4. Explain how Lily had come into Jonas’s family.
 5. How were rules changed in the community?
 6. Why was the Ceremony of Twelve the most important of all Ceremonies?
 7. Explain why Jonas’s father had expected to be given the Assignment as Nurturer at his own Ceremony of Twelve.
 8. How did life change for Elevens after the Ceremony of Twelve?
 9. What was Lily’s comfort object and when did she get it?
10. Though Jonas’s parents had reassured him about the event, why was the boy’s mind still on the December Ceremony?