The Giver--Novel Study by Natalie Wisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf ¨Call me The Giver.¨ (pg. 87) en-us 2019-04-28 22:10:17 UTC 2024-07-25 22:02:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/364397222/a7d47f676bdb69b5bfdd785016cb4da4/manonbeach_free2.jpg The Giver, Lois Lowry, 1993 nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825532 Natalie]]> 2019-04-28 22:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825532 Setting nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825611 The Community
  • Childcare (Place where the younger children go to after school[like EDP]) pg. 5, 27,
  • Central Plaza ( pg. 27
  • Food Distribution (Place that prepares food to be delivered to family units) pg. 27, 
  • Nurturing Center (Center where the newborns are taken care of until the Ceremony of One)) pg. 22, 27, 
  • House of the Old (Center where the Old are taken care of until their release from the Community) pg. 27, 
  • Dwellings (Homes where family units live in) pg. 27
  • Auditorium (The place where Ceremonies are held) pg. 27, 41-49
  • Birthing center (Place where Birthmothers gave birth to children) pg.21-22
  • School (Place where Jonas goes to learn new things) pg. 
  • Rehabilitation Center
  • Hall of Open Records
  • Fish Hatchery (Place where fish hatch)
  • Recreation Center 
  • Bicycle Repair Shop
  • Annex (Place where The Receiver does his work and trains Jonas) chapter 10
]]> 2019-04-28 22:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825611 Characters nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825634
  • Jonas (main character)
  • Mother (The main character's parent) pg. 5-22, 34-41,  Chapters 5 and 6
  • Father (The main character's parent) pg. 5-22, 34-36, Chapters 5 and 6
  • Lily (Jonas' 7 year old sister) pg. 5-10, 18-23, 34-37, 40-45
  • Asher (Jonas' friend) pg. 3-4, 17, 23-25, 27-29, 38, 43, 47-49
  • Fiona (Jonas' crush) pg. 29, 35-36, 43
  • Larissa (The older person that Jonas was bathing)  pg. 30-33
  • Edna (The older person that was released that Larissa was talking about)    pg. 31-32
  • Roberto (The older person that Jonas helped feed) pg. 31-32
  • Benjamin (Jonas' group mate) pg. 26-27
  • Pilot (Jonas was scared of him when he flew over the Community) pg. 1-2
  • Speaker (person that does announcements to the Community) pg. 2, 22-23, 37
  • Instructor(Teaches the Elevens including Jonas) pg. 3-4
  • Caleb "1 "(A Four that drowned in the river) pg. 44
  • Caleb "2" (The child replacing Caleb "1") pg. 44 
    • ]]>     2019-04-28 22:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825634     The Ceremonies nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825691
  • New children = Receive comfort object, given to the nurturing center, given a group mate number
  • Ones = Receive names and are given to assigned family units
  • Twos = Not mentioned in the novel
  • Threes = Start dream telling (start sharing their dreams with their family units), start speaking with accuracy, start sharing their feelings, females get hair ribbons
  • Fours =  Receive a back-buttoned jacket (to learn interdependence)
  • Fives =  Receive a bigger back-buttoned jacket
  • Sixes = Receive an even bigger back-buttoned jacket
  • Sevens = Receive a front-buttoned jacket (big buttons)
  • Eights = Comfort objects taken away, start volunteer hours, receive a jacket with smaller buttons and with pockets
  • Nines = Children receive bicycles and females stop wearing ribbons
  • Tens = Females get their braids cut (lose their hair [braids]) and males get their long childish hair cut to a more manly short style (which exposes their ears)
  • Elevens = Females get new clothes to match their changing bodies and males receive longer trousers with a specially shaped pocket for a small calculator
  • Twelves (most important) = End volunteer hours (must have volunteer hours completed or will not get assignment), are assigned their assignments, nameplates on the bicycles are replaced with nameplates that indicates citizen in training, lose recreation time 
    • ]]>     2019-04-28 22:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825691     Jonas at the Beginning of the Novel--Complete after reading chapter 3. nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825741 Jonas' Traits and Feelings
    •  Obedient to the rules of the Community
    • Feeling apprehensive about the Ceremony of Twelve (what assignment he will get)
    • Careful on how he uses his language

    Symbol=Slave
    I choose a slave to symbolize Jonas because Jonas has no freedom (meaning that he can't pick his own food, pick his own job or assignment, plan out his day, etc.) and obeys all the laws (rules) just like a slave has no freedom and has to obey the rules.
    ]]>     2019-04-28 22:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825741     Jonas at the End of the Novel--I will let you know when to do this. nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825814 I chose a two bird escaping from a cage to symbolize Jonas at the end. Jonas along with Gabriel are discovering, in person, the ¨other¨ world. The escaping birds represent Jonas and Gabriel and the cage represents the Community. On pg 163 the narrator states ¨Jonas was forced to flee¨ and as the narrator says on pg 166 ¨And he had taken Gabriel, too.¨]]> 2019-04-28 22:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825814 Questions to Answer nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825939
    Due by Wed., May 1=question 1
    1. Use chp 3, pg 29, read 1st full paragraph and answer--What does this detail (making announcements to point out mistakes) suggest about the role of the announcements in Jonas’s community? Be specific and support your answer.
    YOUR ANSWER-- The role of making announcements to point out mistakes in the Community is to make the people in the Community feel pressured to be perfect because the Community is an Utopia. (Author's viewpoint=publicly shame people so they obey the rules)
    2. Jonas’s community is highly regulated with rules.  Read the sections about the rule against bragging (34). Answer and support-- What is the rule’s purpose in the community? Why does it exist? What impact does the rule have on the community?
    YOUR ANSWER-- Since the Community is an Utopia the rule against bragging is trying to make everyone equal and the same. The impact of that rule on the Community is that no one  in the Community is trying to show off or boast about their accomplishments.
    3. Which narrative point of view (POV) is used in The Giver? Use pg 53 to support your answer with text evidence with the sentence from the novel that proves the POV you chose.
    YOUR ANSWER-- 3rd person limited because on page 53 the author writes ¨Jonas was certainly glad that that Assignment was taken...¨

    QUESTION #4--DUE WEDNESDAY, MAY 8.
    Use p. 82: How does Jonas feel upon leaving the auditorium? Which words make you think that? (support your answer)
    YOUR ANSWER-- Jonas felt different, separate from others, and apartness after he left the auditorium. I know that because the narrator on page 65 says ¨Now, for the first time in his twelve years of life, Jonas felt separate, different.¨ and ¨...he felt the apartness.¨
    QUESTION #5
    How has Jonas’s attitude shifted slightly in chapter twelve? Make sure to explain your answer using details from the text. Use chapter 12.  HINT-Keep this in mind as you think about a new symbol to symbolize Jonas in the Middle of the Novel.

    YOUR ANSWER--Jonas´ attitude shifted from being shy, nervous, and worried to more confident, less shy, braver and because of that he is more eager to his training as the narrator mentions on page 90 ¨´I really think I´ll like it better than school,´ Fiona confessed. ´Me too,´ Jonas agreed,...¨
    A. Define a protagonist & give an example from the video or from a story you know.
    YOUR ANSWER-- protagonist=central character in a story or a character that goes through a change
    The Wizard of Oz
    protagonist=Dorothy

    B. Define an antagonist & give an example from the video or from a story you know.
    YOUR ANSWER-- antagonist=the opposing force or character who leads the conflict against the protagonist or the force or person that makes the protagonist change or go through a change
    The Wizard of Oz
    antagonist=the Wicked Witch of the West

    C. In The Giver, who is the protagonist and antagonist? Support your answer. Be sure to go over terms and explain pro & ant are not always people.
    YOUR ANSWER-- Jonas is the protagonist because he is the central character in The Giver and he is going through changes as the narrator says on pg 125 "'I just didn't realize there was any other way, until I received that memory."' This quote shows that Jonas starts to discover new things.
    The antagonist is the way the Community functions, and the rules of the Community because as Jonas gains wisdom, he starts to see the Community as a empty and feeling less place (unfair) as the narrator says on pg 126(158) ¨'And that I wish we could be that way, and that you could be my grandparent. The family in the memory seemed a little more...'
    ... 'A little more complete,"'    ]]>     2019-04-28 22:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825939     Climax nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825960 The climax in The Giver is when Jonas escapes from the Community along with Gabriel as the narrator states on pg  163 ¨Jonas was forced to flee¨ and as the narrator says on pg 166 ¨And he had taken Gabriel, too.¨
    The quote ¨I'm already gone and I'm feelin' strong¨ from the song Already Gone by the Eagles reminds me of how Jonas and Gabriel are now gone from the Community and Jonas is feeling confident.]]>     2019-04-28 22:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/354825960     Conflict nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/356354676 Man vs society
    The type of conflict is man vs society because Jonas(man) is unhappy about the way the Community(society) functions and behaves and wants to live like the family in the Christmas memory as the narrator points out on pg 126(158) ¨'And that I wish we could be that way, and that you could be my grandparent. The family in the memory seemed a little more...'
    ... 'A little more complete,"'    ]]>     2019-05-02 18:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/356354676     Memory nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/359721768 Memory
    Jonas found himself in a very quiet and still room. The room was not very fancy, yet he noticed the way the chairs and tables were set. Each table had six chairs (three on each side) and three sets of white and green squared boards with black and white figures set in a uniform order. Then, he noticed a small group of people gathered around one of the tables. Jonas came closer to see what the group was doing. When he approached the crowd, he saw two people, both females, sitting on opposite ends of a board moving the figures on the board. Jonas perceived the word "chessboard" for the green and white square board and "chess pieces" for the black and white figures. Jonas liked the silence. It was calming and relaxing. Suddenly the girl playing with black chess pieces said "Checkmate!"
    Both shook hands and said "Good game!"
    The crowd split up and Jonas now got a closer view of the board. Black's pieces all cooperating together formed a beautiful mate.
    "Wow!"
    In an instant, Jonas found himself on the bed in the Annex room.
    "What a memory!" he exclaimed.
    Explanation of why I chose this memory
    I chose this memory because the memory(especially the sentence "Jonas now got a closer view of the board. Black's pieces all cooperating together formed a beautiful mate.") shows an example of how by cooperating together, you can accomplish something, reach your goals or solve your problems and by this, Jonas might be able to solve his problems.

    ]]>     2019-05-14 01:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/359721768     Jonas at the Middle of the Novel--Complete after reading chapter 11. nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/359722146 Symbol=Explorer
    I choose an explorer because now, Jonas is starting to discover things that are beyond Sameness and his community such as: Climate Control, color, different landforms(not just flat surface), etc. and an explorer also discovers and explores new things such as: different weather, different lands, etc. ]]>     2019-05-14 01:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/359722146     Theme nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/362947437 Universal Theme: Specious
    Theme: A person, something, or place can appear just, fair, and good on the outside but when you look deeper, the person, thing, or place is actually unfair, unjust, or evil.
    In The Giver a place(the Community) appears fair and perfect. After all, it is an Utopia, a place where everything is perfect. Yet, as a character(Jonas) receives "memories" of a different world, the character realizes that Sameness appears fair but in reality is unfair and unjust as in chapter thirteen pg 97 Jonas says "'It isn't fair..."'  ]]>     2019-05-23 14:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/362947437     Resolution nwisniowski https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/363323249 The resolution in The Giver(which is how the problem(s) in a book are solved) is that Jonas along with Gabriel escapes from the Community and at the very end Jonas and Gabriel are sliding down on a hill either toward a house and a family celebrating Christmas or freezing to death and arriving at heaven as the narrator states on pages 178-179 "Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting too, for the baby. For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo."
    The first four sentences support the first ending while the last sentence suggests that Jonas is freezing to death and arriving at heaven and seeing and hearing those things or is just hallucinating. ]]>     2019-05-24 16:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nwisniowski/xe8shun6dgxf/wish/363323249