Tomorrow’s Test: Spelling, Vocab, Giver, Omelas. Test #20 Preview
“Spelling, 2/24.” This time, choose and COPY the correctly-spelled choice. ANSWER, not letter, for #6.
- a) beleivable b) believeable c) believible d) believable e) NOTA
- a) seperately b) separatly c) separately d) seprately e) NOTA
- a) movable b) moveable c) movible d) moveible e) NOTA
- a) ignerance b) ignorance c) ignorence d) ignorince e) NOTA
- a) recquirement b) requirment c) recquirment d) requiremint e) NOTA
- The reason we don’t drop the last e from a word like positive before we add an ending like -ly, is that… a) Positive ends with a consonant sound. b) The ending-lyends with an y. c) The ending -ly begins with a consonant d) The ending -ly makes it an adjective. e) NOTA
“Vocab, 2/24.”
- _____
- _____
- _____
- _____
- The root of this word meant “to command.”
- The root of this word meant “suitable.”
- The roots of this word meant “to nurture (in the mind).”
- We would find the world of The Giver to be ____ and without much meaning.
- The character of Chief Elder in the movie is much more _____ than we pictured her in the book.
- The scene of Johnny’s death in The Outsiders is very ______.
- This week’s word ____ (adj) is similar in meaning to the noun we had previously, anachronism.
Spelling Bee: Winning side gets +2. Vocab words are included! (Not brood! LOL.)
“The Giver, 22/23” (5p)
- The part where Jonas sees the apple change. a) exposition b) rising action c) inciting incident d) climax e) resolution
- The part where Jonas is selected to be the new Receiver. a) exposition b) rising action c) inciting incident d) climax e) resolution
- The part where Jonas and The Giver make the plan. a) exposition b) rising action c) inciting incident d) climax e) resolution
- Jonas and Gabe sliding down the hill on the sled would be the _______ of the story. a) exposition b) rising action c) climax d) falling action (haha) e) resolution
- Which character doesn’t belong with the others? a) Jonas b) Gran-Da (“Old Glory”) c) The Giver d) Asher e) Ponyboy f) Alyce g) NOTA
The Giver. What is up with that ending? (Tonight’s reading is Cancelled.)
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.
How can we connect “The Sneetches” and The Giver? How about “Old Glory” and The Giver?
