The Giver

Tomorrow’s Test: HD (all warmups are fair game), Vocab, Giver (B + M)

“SAWs, 3/22.”  disperse, catalyst, segregate, injustice, reform
1. Rosa Parks’s act of civil disobedience was a ______ for the new Civil Rights movement.
2. The birds who ate the seeds helped ______ them to new locations.
3. The people protesting the _______ of 4.________(ion) were forced to 5. _______ by police.

 

“Vocabulary, 3/22. All 11 vocab words + noun form of one SAW.

I had a 1.____ in my judgement and got caught because I didn’t have anyone to help me with a(n)  2._____,  so my mom’s  3._____  escalated into being 4.______(ed). I 5.____(ed) out on my bed in my room, tried to find some  6.______(ity) and sighed. I felt the buzz of my phone in my pocket, but when I reached for it, it turned out to be a 7._____. Then I remembered Mom had taken my phone, and I felt another 8._____ of 9._____(ment) come over me. But as I lay there, I began to assess the situation more calmly, and I saw a 10._____ of hope. Maybe this incident was just the 11.____ I needed to change my ways.  But then I turned on the tv and watched some stupid comedy 12.____ for the rest of the afternoon.

 

 

PICTIONARY/PANTOMIME VOCAB RELAY.

 

Dah Givah.

DUE NEXT FRIDAY 3/30:  Pick one. 600 + words. PROOFREAD! Use examples from book/movie. anticipate and refute counterarguments. Please share a GDoc AND print.

• • “Three Reasons Why The Giver Book/Movie is Better Than the Movie/Book.”
  • “Despite the Changes, The Giver Movie Does a Good Job Respecting the Book.”

Tomorrow’s Test: Husker Du for your class, Vocab + SAWs, Giver.

“Husker Du, 3/15.”

Period One – Test #13.  a) nevertheless b) instead  c) because  d) furthermore  e) consequently   f) in fact
A vegetarian can be defined as someone who does not eat meat, fish, or other animal products, such as eggs or cheese; 1) _____, he or she eats vegetables, fruits, grains, and seeds. 2) _____ this diet consists of non-meat food sources, a vegetarian typically consumes less fat and cholesterol than an individual who consumes meat. 3) _____, raising animals for food uses valuable land, water, and energy. 4) _____, adopting a vegetarian diet helps conserve the valuable resources that our future depends on.

5) “It’s a tree-lined, quiet residential American street…”  a) exposition  b) inciting action  c) resolution  d) rising action  e) theme

6) Solar power is more ______ to the environment than coal or oil.  a) haphazard  b) relinquish  c) scrupulous  d) benign  e) profound  f) conspicuous  g) inconspicuous

7) His pants were so tight they _______(ed) his movement.  a) augment  b) escalate  c) impede  d) suppress  e) wry  f) lethargic  g) fleeting

Period Two – Test #21. 

1. Srodula.  a) The concentration camp where Vladek is eventually taken.  b) One of the Gemeinder.  c) The Jewish police.  d) The Jewish ghetto where Vladek went into hiding.  e) NOTA
2. kombinator  a) a crook  b) someone who works in the black market  c) a type of bunker  d) one of the Jews who worked with the Nazis  e) NOTA
3. Rudolpho was upset because his mom ate the last of the cheeselog.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX
4. Joe waited for the llama to arrive, but she was late. a) S  b) CD  c) CX
5. If we don’t repair the dam, the water will rush through.  a) S  b) CD  c) CX
6. Solar power is more ______ to the environment than coal or oil.  a) haphazard  b) relinquish  c) scrupulous  d) benign  e) profound  f) conspicuous  g) inconspicuous
7. His pants were so tight they _______(ed) his movement.  a) augment  b) escalate  c) impede  d) suppress  e) wry  f) lethargic  g) fleeting

Period Three – Test #15.

1. The teacher’s crabby ____ sort of brought the whole class down.  a) aptitude  b) chastise  c) nurture  d) distinguish  e) disquieting  f) disposition
2. The medication seems effective. _____, more research must be done to see if it’s safe.   a) And  b) Whereas c) Nevertheless  d) So  e) Meanwhile   f) NOTA
3. _____, it’s best to avoid it.  a) Although  b) However  c) Unless  d) Until then  e) Whereas
4. In the word metamorphosis, the root morph means change.   a) True  b) False
5. You would talk colloquially to a judge in a courtroom.  a) True  b) False
6. Solar power is more ______ to the environment than coal or oil.  a) haphazard  b) relinquish  c) scrupulous  d) benign  e) profound  f) conspicuous  g) inconspicuous
7. His pants were so tight they _______(ed) his movement.  a) augment  b) escalate  c) impede  d) suppress  e) wry  f) lethargic  g) fleeting

Period Five – Test #11. 

1. What inspired Alyce to go see Edward at the manor?  a) When she heard he got eaten by a goat.  b) When she watched the cow snuggle her new calf.  c) When Magister Reese asked her whether she had any family.  d) When Will Russet told her about Alyce Little.  e) It just came out of the nowhere.  f) NOTA
2. When the author says that the cook had “words pouring forth from her mouth with none to listen,” what does she mean?  a) The cook is crazy.  b) Nobody listens to the cook.  c) Everything the cook says is a lie.  d) The cook is talking to herself.  e) NOTA
3. Our main conflict in The Midwife’s Apprentice is Alyce vs ______.  a) the world  b) the village  c) herself  d) the midwife  e) NOTA
4. Every time Mr. Coward played the beat, he _____(ed) a response from the class, who thought someone was coming through the door.  a) illicit  b) hysterical  c) elicit  d) acquit  e) wince  f) patronize  g) NOTA
5.  Many of the satellite photos we see on tv and on the ‘net are provided by the NOAA. What does that abbreviation stand for?  a) Northern Overhead Air Association  b) National Outdoor Air Administration  c) National Outdoor Atmosphere Administration  d) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  e) National Ocean and Air Association  f) NOTA
6. Solar power is more ______ to the environment than coal or oil.  a) haphazard  b) relinquish  c) scrupulous  d) benign  e) profound  f) conspicuous  g) inconspicuous
7. His pants were so tight they _______(ed) his movement.  a) augment  b) escalate  c) impede  d) suppress  e) wry  f) lethargic  g) fleeting

 

“Vocabulary, 3/15.”  Used properly or not? Write Yes if the word is used properly in the sentence. Write No if it is not. Bonus: Rewrite the Nots, so the word is used correctly.

1. The band was so crescendo I couldn’t hear my friend talking.
2. She yearned for a better life.
3. The buckle bridge was very old and ready to fall.
4. I frazzled my homework last night because it was so hard and took so long.
5. She drank a magnitude of soda and burped all night.
6. The police were vigilant, watching the house 24/7.
7. First period acted so regress yesterday; they were just like kindergartners.
8. He made a feeble attempt at studying, decided he was too feeble-minded, and gave up.
9. The ghost manifested itself at the end of the hall and scared the bejabbers out of me.
10. The elephant’s trunk sinuoused out of the enclosure and took the peanut.
11. He didn’t understand the peril of his situation and thought he was safe.
12. The drug treated the symptoms of the disease, but it didn’t fix the underlying cause.
13. The magnitude of Jeff Bezos’s fortune is mind-blowing. (About $52 million per day, over $2 million per hour, and $36,000 a minute.)
14. Lack of sleep for an extended period can result in a regression of your IQ.
15. The manifest teacher turned out to be an alien!

 

Pictionary Relay!

 

The Giver. What is up with that ending?

Here’s what Lois Lowry says about it:

Those of you who hoped that I would stand here tonight and reveal the
“true” ending, the “right” interpretation of the ending, will be disappointed.
There isn’t one. There’s a right one for each of us, and it depends on our own
beliefs, our own hopes.

Let me tell you a few endings which are the “right” endings for a few
children out of the many who have written to me.
From a sixth grader: “I think that when they were traveling they were
traveling in a circle. When they came to “Elsewhere” it was their old
community, but they had accepted the memories and all the feelings that go
along with it…”

From another: “…Jonas was kind of like Jesus because he took the pain
for everyone else in the community so they wouldn’t have to suffer. And, at the
very end of the book, when Jonas and Gabe reached the place that they knew
as Elsewhere, you described Elsewhere as if it were heaven.”

And one more: “A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not
me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they
made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the
future was their world. It was parallel worlds.”

Finally, from one seventh grade boy: “I was really surprised that they
just died at the end. That was a bummer. You could of made them stay alive, I
thought.”

Very few find it a bummer. Most of the young readers who have written to
me have perceived the magic of the circular journey. The truth that we go out
and come back, and that what we come back to is changed, and so are we.
Perhaps I have been traveling in a circle too. Things come together and
become complete

Hmmm.

 

 

 

The Giver

 

 

 

 

In your notebook, set aside 3 or 4 pages for a chart that looks like this:

Book.	Movie.	Why the change?	Better/Worse and Why.

Please keep it out the whole time and add to it as we watch. You will use this later on.