Here is the current vocabulary and questions that they will be expected to work on this weekend:
The
Giver – Chapter 1
Vocabulary:
rasping 2 palpable 3 distraught 4 wheedle 5
nurturer 7 disposition 7 transgression 9 apprehensive 9
Questions:
1. How does
the author get the reader into the book?
2. From
whose point of view is the story told?
3. How is
Jonas’s family like your family and different from your family?
4. What do
know so far about “release” in the book’s society? What are your feelings about
“release”?
5. How is
the care of children different in Jonas’s world from our society?
The Giver
– Chapter 2
Vocabulary:
Aptitude 15
Questions:
1. What is
the private conversation Jonas’s parents have with him about?
2. Identify
details about and the importance of each of these items in the book:
Ceremony of
One Naming Bicycles Ceremony
of Nine
Comfort
Objects
3. What
rules does Jonas’s father disobey?
4. How do
people in the society receive their Assignments?
5. Why do
you think the author is building up Jonas’s Ceremony of Twelve? What do you think that Jonas’s Assignment
might be?
