Ammendments

Which ammendment do you think is most important? Why?

Are there any you think we should change today?

The Giver by Lois Lowry: Chapter 22-23

Vocabulary: Define each word and use it in a sentence.

1) exquisite
2) tantalizing
3) imperceptibly
4) agonizingly
5) trudged
6) lethargy

Questions: Please answer the following using text support and comment on at least one classmate's post.

1) What new dangers does Jonas encounter in Chapter 22?

2) What weather conditions impede Jonas' progress toward Elsewhere?

3) How do Jonas and Gabe finally get to safety?

4) What probably would have happened to Gabe if he had stayed in the community?

**NOTE: Study Chapters 20-21 QUIZ Wednesday!!!

The Giver by Lois Lowry: Chapter 20-21

Vocabulary: Please define and write a sentence for each word in your Giver Notebook.

1) empowered
2) rueful
3) meticulously
4) stealthily
5) frazzled
6) emphatically

Questions: Answer the following questions with text support and comment on at least one of your classmates' post.

1) Whay does Jonas refuse to go home? How does the Giver comfort Jonas? Describe the plan Jonas and the Giver hatch? Do you think the plan will work? Why or why not? Explain.

2)How does the first part of the "escape plan" proceed?

3) How has the mood changed by the end of Chapter 21?

4) Is Jonas justified in his escape?

**NOTE: There will be a QUIZ on Monday for Chapters 18-19.***

The Giver by Lois Lowry: Chapter 18-19

Vocabulary: Please define each AND write a sentence for each in your Giver Workbook.

1) luminous
2) anguish
3) imploringly

Questions: Please answer the following with text support and comment on at least one of your classmates' post.

1) Describe briefly the story of Rosemary. What happened to the memories transferred to Rosemary? How were the training rules changed as a result? Explain. Give textual reference.

2) What does Jonas learn about Rule #3 from his training rules in Chapter 19? What does this reveal to you the reader? How does this effect your outlook on the book so far? Explain.

The Giver by Lois Lowry: Chapter 15-17

Vocabulary: Please define each word in your Giver Workbook.
1) contorted
2) carnage
3) immobolized
4) ecstatic
5) obsolete
6) permeated
7) exasperation
8) expertise

Questions: Please respond to the following questions with text support and comment to at least one of your classmates responses.

1) Why does the Giver say, "Forgive me"?

2) How does Jonas learn of love?

3) Why are grandparents a new idea for Jonas? What does the book's society lose without grandparents? What do they gain?

4)Why does Jonas stop taking his daily pills?

Social Studies Chapter 6

What commitee of the president's would you like to be on and why? What would you change from how it is today?

(Commitees examples were listed above the question at the beginning of the chapter [education, foreign policy, agriculture, etc])

The Giver by Lois Lowry: Chapter 13 & 14

Vocabulary: Please define each vocabulary word in your Giver Workbook.

1) mutilated
2) sinuous
3) electrode
4) skittered
5) acceleration
6) writhing
7) anguish
8) assuage
9) excruciating
10) distended
11) ominous
12) placidly

Questions: Please answer each of the following questions and post at least one comment to your classmates. *REMEMBER to use text to support your answer!!!**

1) What does safety mean to the book's society, to you, to adults, to those in cities, and to those in rural areas?
2) What does the Giver share of his personal family life? How do you think he felt? Explain.
3) How does Jonas react when The Giver gives him the memory of breaking a leg in sledding? How does Jonas' understanding and growing wisdom increase after he experiences that pain?
4) How does Jonas calm Gabriel?

**BE READY for a QUIZ on CHAPTERS 13 & 14 on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st!!
NOTE: BOOK REPORTS are due TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st!!! No Excuses!!!

The Giver by Lois Lowry- Chapter 11-12

Vocabulary: Please define each word in you Giver Workbook.

1) conveyance
2) admonition

Questions: Please answer each question using text support and comment to at least one classmate.

1) Which item in the list of duties frightened Jonas? Why did this frighten him?

2) What two lessons did Jonas learn about the sun?

3) How did Jonas' relationship with his family and friends change after he received his Life Assignment?

4) What memories do you think will be particularly important for Jonas to receive? Why?
Explain.

**NOTE: Read Chapter 12 before you answer the questions. Be ready for a quiz on Thursday.

The Giver-Lois Lowry Chapter 9 & 10

ASSIGNMENT for the weekend...

Vocabulary: Please define each vocabulary word AND give a synonym for each in your Giver Workbook.

1) requisitioned
2) excruciating
3) reeled
4) exhilarating
5) deftly

Questions: Please post your responses to each by giving support from the text as well as comment on at least one classmate's response.

1) What is it like to feel different? Why is it a new sensation for Jonas at the start of Chapter 9? How do others now treat Jonas?

2) What are Jonas' instructions for his Receiver training? Why are the rules so puzzling to him?

3) What does Jonas notice about the Receiver of Memory's dwelling?

4) What will Jonas' position as Receiver of Memory involve? Why is it important to save the memories?

**Please note: You will have a quiz on Chapters 8-10 on Monday, February 13th!!!! STUDY/REREAD!!!!

**Also, Book Report for EXTRA CREDIT (5 pts.) is due on Monday, February 13th.

Social Studies Ch 5 S 4

What rights would you want the Constitution to protect?

Give an 8th grade response and reply to a friend.

The Giver- Lois Lowry Chapter 8

Vocabulary: Please define these words in your Giver Workbook.
1) crescendo
2) humiliation
3) benign
4) anguish
5) meticulously

Questions: Please respond with textual support to the following questions.

1) What is announced as Jonas' assignment? What is the job? If you were Jonas, would you have wanted the assignment assigned to him? Explain.

2) What qualities does the Chief Elder esplain that Jonas will need for his new assignment?

3) How will Jonas' life change as he trains to be the Receiver of Memory? Make some predictions.

**Read Ahead to Chapter 9, and complete any information for the first chart in your Giver Workbook.

The Giver, Lois Lowry Chapter 7

Vocabulary Words: Please define in your Giver workbooks.
1) exasperated
2) retroactive
3) acquistion
4) apprehensive

Please answer the following questions.

1) What do the numbers mean for each person? Use text to support your answer.

2) Why is number Nineteen skipped in the Assignments? What do you think will happen to Jonas regarding his Assignment? What do you think his assignment will be?

**Please Study Chapters 6 & 7 for a QUIZ tomorrow! :)

The Giver by Lois Lowry: Chapter 6

Vocabulary:

1. interdependence


2. indulgently


3. exuberent


4. chastisement


5. transgressions


6. buoyancy

Please find the definitions to these new vocabulary words, and record them in your Giver workbooks.

Questions: The following questions are to be answered over the weekend. Please post your response and comments by Monday, February 6th.

1. What values does the book's society embrace and encourage?


2. What is interdependece? Give an example from your own experiences.


3. What is the difference between loss and release? Why do you think the author points out this distinction? Explain.


4. How does the author build the interest in Jonas' Ceremony of Twelve?

Persuasive Writing

1.) What is your persuasive writing topic?
2.) List your 3 reasons.
3.) Give at least 2 supports for EACH reason (total of 6).

Example:

Topic: Uniforms
POV (Point of View): For uniforms

Reason 1: Less expensive than regular clothes.
Support 1: You can wear the same thing every week instead of consistently buying new outifits.
Support 2: You can buy clothes in bulk to get a cheaper price. If I save money on clothes then I can spend money on fun things like an I-pod.

Reason 2: Kids will not make fun of you for your clothes because everyone will be the same.
Support 1: Sometimes you cannot afford the expensive brand names that are in style, with uniforms no one will know.
Support 2: Jamie said, "You do not have to worry about being "cool" because everyone will look the same."

Reason 3: Uniforms keep everyone safe.
Support 1: Statistics show that violence is down 70% because students are not wearing gang related colors.
Support 2: Students do not have to worry about getting jumped and someone stealing their nice clothes.

The Giver By: Lois Lowry

Chapter 5

Please answer these questions below and respond to your classmates answers:

1.) What is the morning ritual?
2.) Why must Jonas start taking the pill everyday?
3.) How are you feeling about the society in the book?