HW for Monday, April 23rd

1. Write 5 questions (1 question per paragraph) about the article "Parentese." (p. 152-154) (collected)

2. Finish Act. 4 (p. 155-156)

3. Finish Act. 2 (p. 161)

4. Speed Reading #18 ("White Sands")

5. News Journal #9
To complete News Journal #9, you may choose an article from any of the sites below, or you can choose your own news site and find an article from there.

The Missoulian     BBC News      NPR News       Missoula Independent

Here are some other sites you might want to check out:

The New York Times    The Economist         The Wall Street Journal       CNN News

Week 14 Giver Activities

1. Reading

• Read chapters 20-21

2. Discussion Topic: The benefits and drawbacks of living in Jonas' community

• How did Jonas change his plans?

• How have your feelings about the Giver changed over the course of the book?

• Which memories of yours would you most hate to lose?

• How do you feel about 'release' now?  Do you think it is okay?  Is it ever okay?  (This is a debate in the US, so please respect the various opinions!)

3. Week 13 Giver Response (collected)

Please answer the following questions based on your understanding of "The Giver." Please write your response in your own words; in other words, DO NOT COPY FROM THE BOOK or any other source.

• If you lost your memory of music, describe how your life would be different.

4. Practice Quizzes 


Quiz for Chapters 20-21

HW for Wednesday, April 18th

1. Speed Reading #17 "Taekwondo"

2. Activities 11+13 (#1 and 2) (p. 150-151) (collected)
*Please write on separate paper!

3. Study the prefix and suffix chart on p. 159-160.

HW for Monday, April 16th

1. News Journal #8
To complete News Journal #8, you may choose an article from any of the sites below, or you can choose your own news site and find an article from there.

The Missoulian     BBC News      NPR News       Missoula Independent

Here are some other sites you might want to check out:

The New York Times    The Economist         The Wall Street Journal       CNN News
 
2. Speed Reading #16 "Secret Stations"

3. "If We Could Talk with Animals...." Article Activities (p. 143-148)

• Read entire article. 
• Complete SPUNKI handout from class 
• Act. 5 (p. 147)
• Act. 6 (p. 48) (collected)

4. Vocabulary  Activities

• Act. 7 (p. 148) (No dictionaries!! **Use the context to find each word; see the article on p. 143-147)
• Act. 1 (p. 158)
• Review definitions (use dictionary/internet/article context).
• Complete activity in 5 minutes. 

5. Week 14 Giver Reading

• Chapter 20-21

HW for Monday, April 9th

1. Book Report #2 (Book Jacket)

Week 13 Giver Activities (for Thurs. April 12th)

1. Reading

• Read chapters 16-19 (p. 121-151)

2. Discussion Topic: The benefits and drawbacks of living in Jonas' community

• What are benefits of living in Jonas' community? What are the drawbacks? Describe each benefit and drawback. Who benefits? Who is negatively affected?

• Do any of these benefits or drawbacks exist in your community? How would each benefit/drawback be good or bad for your community?

• Choose the three most important benefits and and three most important drawbacks. Carefully compare the two lists. Based on these two lists, would you choose to live in Jonas' communitiy? Why or why not?

3. Week 13 Giver Response (collected)

Please answer the following questions based on your understanding of "The Giver." Please write your response in your own words; in other words, DO NOT COPY FROM THE BOOK or any other source.

• If you could take one aspect of Jonas' community and give it to your own community, what would it be? Why? If you could take one thing from your community and introduce it to Jonas' community, what would it be? Why?
  
  

4. Practice Quizzes 

Quiz for Chapter 16-17

Quiz for Chapters 18-19

Week 10 Sample Giver Responses

Sample Giver responses to the week 10 questions
-Here are two strong, relevant responses to questions 1 and 2. Please look at these responses and then compare them to your own response. Do you have the same idea? Do you agree with the responses below? What makes the responses below good responses?


The Questions

• Question 1: "Seeing Beyond"
• Describe what Jonas really sees when he "sees beyond."  Give examples from the story of what he sees.  
• Question 2: "Individualism in the Community"
• Let's revisit the topic of individualism (the differences among people).  Based on what you have read so far, Is your view of individualism in the community the same as your first response (Week 4 Giver Questions)? Do you think that there is individualism in the community? Why or why not? Please use examples from the reading to support your answer.

Question 1 Responses

Student A Response: 
First he could see the apple’s color a few weeks ago. Second he could see the faces in the audience. Now he could see fiona’s hair color. …. It’s color.

Student B Response:
To see beyond is a special quality that only has the Giver and Jonas.  It is the ability to see the colors.  Jonas experience this capacity when he was playing with an apple, and suddenly this changed.  In this moment, he was able to see the red color of the apple.  Then.........he was able to see that the faces of the people changed. It is because the faces have some red tones. Finally.....he was able to see that [Fiona's] hair changed because she is redhead.

Question 2 Responses


Student A Response: 
I think there isn't individualism.  Because people can make choice only to go to Sameness.  Then, the Giver protect them from danger, to make them a choice to go to sameness.

Student B Response:
I keep thinking that people in the community don't value the individualism; actually, they feel frightened about this......Jonas and the Giver sometimes talk about Sameness.....People who live in Sameness can't do choices because the past generations decided that they would be protected to the wrong choices, so they would have a lot of rules, and everything would be exactly the same for everyone. For example, they can't choose the color of their tunics.......