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!!!