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____ Date________________ The Giver- Section 1 (Chapters 1-3) Vocabulary and Discussion Guide Directions- Use context clues to define each of the following words. Make sure the definition matches the way it was used in the novel. Vocabulary Chapter1 1. (pg.4) populate2. (pg.4) navigational3. (pg.4) ironic4. (pg.5) palpable5. (pg.6) apprehensive6. (pg.8) disposition7. (pg.10) prominent8. (pg.10) transgressionChapter 2 9. (pg.13) adherence10. (pg.17) appealChapter 3 11. (pg.20) chastise12. (pg.23) hoarded-
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Questions 1. Why might the arrival of a jet be a terrifying experience for the community? 2. The author writes of occasions when members of the community are released. What are the three reasons someone might be released from the community? What do you think might happen to someone who is released from the community? 3. Name one of the things you learned about the community from the discussion during the ritual telling of feelings? 4. What was unique about the way children are born and infants are cared for in the community? 5. Why was it so difficult to get the rules changed in the community? 6. What two things did the committee consider when giving children life assignments? If someone was observing you for the past year, what Assignment would you receive? 7. How does the hook in The Giver draw you into the novel? 8. What is the cliffhanger in Chapter 2? 9. We learn that Jonas is an Eleven and his sister, Lily, is a Seven. What do these numbers mean? 10. What does Jonass family do at the dinner table each evening? Why do you think they are required to do this? 11. Why might the Nurturers have to release the newchild, Gabriel? 12. What will happen to Jonas at the Ceremony of Twelve? 13. What changes does Mother say are in store for Jonas after the Ceremony?
14. What happens to a child at the Ceremony of Nine? What rule, regarding Nines, was almost always broken? 15. What rule did Jonass father break? Why do you think Jonas is awed to learn that his father had broken a rule? 16. What group of people act as the governing body in the community? Who is the most important member of this group? 17. Why do you suppose there is no real need for mirrors in the community? 18. When Lily stated, I hope I get assigned to be Birthmother, Mother replied, Theres very little honor in that Assignment. Judge her statement in the context of their community. 19. What prompted Jonas to take the apple home against the recreation rules?
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Setting: The setting of a story is the time period and location in which the story takes place. Setting also consists of the social and moral environment against which the story plays out. In The Giver, we are told nothing about the geographical location of Jonass community, nor are we told in what year the story takes place, but we are given textual clues to help us determine the characteristics of the community. Read each of the following passages below. Then explain what each passage suggests or reveals to you about Jonass community. 1. Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest building and stay there. IMMEDIATELY, the rasping voice through the speakers had said. LEAVE YOUR BICYCLES WHERE THEY ARE.
2. When the class took their seats at the conclusion of the patriotic hymn, Asher remained standing to make his public apology as was required.
3. Who wants to be the first tonight, for feelings? Jonass father asked at the conclusion of their evening meal. It was one of the rituals, the evening telling of feelings.
4. Lily considered, and shook her head. I dont know. They acted like . . . like . . Animals? Jonas suggested. He laughed. Thats right, Lily said, laughing too. Like animals. Neither child knew what the word meant, exactly, but it was often used to describe someone uneducated or clumsy, someone who didnt fit in.
5. Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit.
6. Today a repeat offender had been brought before her, someone who had broken the rules before. Someone who she hoped had been adequately and fairly punished, and who had been restored to his place: to his job, his home, his family unit. . . . The rules say that if theres a third transgression, he simply has to be released.
7. Each December, all the newchildren born in the previous year turned One. One at a time . . . they had been brought to the stage by the Nurturers who had cared for them since birth.
8. The year we got Lily, we knew, of course, that wed receive our female, because wed made our application and been approved.
9. . . . her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lilys, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonass had been called a bear.
Part 2: It should become quickly apparent as you read The Giver, that behavior in Jonas community is governed by a set of rules. As you read The Giver, record each of the rules you read about in the story. For now, list the rules that we learn about in these first three chapters of The Giver.
Continue adding to your list of rules as you read the story.
