Vocabulary Words

Write sentences with the following vocabulary words.

amulet
enclose
doomed
sprites
lilting
pallor
straggle
preceded
despised
doffed
hurtling
unheeded
muffled
writhing
haughty

The Giver

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POETRY 101

Stanzas

Personal Narrative

Pre-write

1. Select an experience that you remember well.

2. Think about the lesson you learned from the experience.

3. Write a timeline to put event in chronological order. (think plot diagram)

4. Complete a sensory chart.

5. Answer the 5 W and H question.

First Draft

1. Write skipping lines. (Careful with the margins)

2. Use dialogue to show personality traits of the other characters in the story.

3. Use sensory chart.

The Giver Chapters 1 & 2

Comprehension questions

Chapter One

1. Explain why you think airplanes are not permitted to fly over the community.
   
2. List the different jobs that are mentioned in the chapter.
   
3. Discuss how the citizens and the Pilot are treated during the accidental fly-over.
   
4. Examine how Asher apologizes to his classmates when he is late to class. Do you
   think he should have to apologize in this way?
   
5. Several rituals, such as using a standard apology phrase and the nightly sharing of
   feelings, are described. Generalize why these rituals are used in the community.
   
6. What are Elevens and Sevens?
   
7. Compare your family’s nightly routine to Jonas’s family’s nightly rituals.
   
8. Distinguish Lily’s definition of animals from our definition of them. Why do you think
   Lily’s definition might be different from ours?
   
9. Compare Father’s job as Nurturer to a similar job in our society.
   
10. Explain why the male baby that Father discusses may be released.
    
11. Identify three reasons why someone may be released.
    
12. How are family units with parents and children created?
    
13. Why does Jonas’s family share their feelings at dinner each evening? Why do you
    think this is an important aspect of life in this community? Is this something that is important to your family? Why or why not?
    

Chapter Two

1. Contrast why December is eventful in Jonas’s society with why December is eventful in our society.
   
2. Describe and assess the Ceremony for the Ones. Do you agree or disagree with the community’s way of handling birthdays? How?
   
3. Explain how babies are placed with families. What do you think about this arrangement? Do you think it is good or bad for the children? Explain your response.
   
4. Analyze where and how newchildren live until they are one. How could this affect their development?
   
5. Show how Father attempts to enhance Gabriel’s nurturing.
   
6. Which rule is frequently broken?
   
7. How are rules changed in the community? How frequently does this occur?
   
8. Who is the most important Elder?
   
9. Explain how and when Assignments are made.
   
10. What do you think would happen if a citizen did not want to do his/her Assignment?
    What Assignment do you think you would be given?
    
11. Why do you think that individual birthdays are not celebrated? Why is age not
    important after becoming a Twelve?
    
12. Decide when and where the novel occurs. Could a society like this one actually be
    created? Explain your position.
    
    

Foreshadowing


Directions: Below are some examples of foreshadowing in The Giver. For each example, write a specific prediction about the character or plot development that you believe is being foreshadowed. After you finish reading the novel, reread your predictions to see how accurate they were. An example has been done for you.


 Ex. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice. . . . He had never seen aircraft so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community. (pg. 1)

Prediction: Planes flying over the community will frighten Jonas in the future. They may be war planes about to attack the community.

1. “But it means,” his mother went on, “that you’ll move into a new group. And each of your friends will. You’ll no longer be spending your time with your group of Elevens. After the Ceremony of Twelve, you’ll be with your Assignment group, with those in training. No more volunteer hours. No more recreation hours. So your friends will no longer be as close.” (pgs. 17-18)

2.Though he had been reassured by the talk with his parents, he hadn’t the slightest idea what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future, or how he might feel about it when the day came. (pg. 19)

Utopia and Dystopia

THE CHASE - SILVANA H.

The Chase

Silvana H.

14/5/13

   I woke up slowly, not remembering were I was. While looking at the forest, I started recalling the events from the past week. I remembered the orcs saying, “We’ll kill you Elena!”

   I’ve been running from them for the past week. I’m exhausted, but if I stop… I’m dead. Looking at the trees, I noticed that fall was starting. That means it should be around, September.

   I should go search for some food. I’m running low on it, since I already ate everything I managed to steal from the orcs. I went into the dense forest, leaving behind the small clearing I was camping in, hidden by the thick shrubs. I walked silently yearning to find some game. I reached the point were I had set my snares. Surprisingly, they had caught two rabbits and one wild turkey. I took the game and quickly hurried back to the clearing.

   A shallow stream passed through the clearing. I decided to skin and clean the game there. I also made a small fire. While roasting the wild turkey, I hear a loud THUMP! Afterwards, I hear a few more. After some seconds I realized they were footsteps, and I could only imagine whom they belong to… the orcs.

   In the little amount of time I had, I packed everything I managed to. There was no time to put the fire out. I just hoped it wouldn’t cause a forest fire. Finally, I gathered the last of my belongings.

   I looked up and saw them emerge from the woods. Their eyes met mine and instantly filled with rage. That’s when I realized I was frozen. I’ve never been this scared since my parents abandoned me eight year ago.

   It wasn’t until the orcs were less than ten feet that I snapped out of my shock. I turned on my heel and ran as fast as my legs could carry me.

   I looked back and saw the orcs were coming closer and closer. The hatred reflected in their eyes got me distracted and I tripped.

    My fingers went numb and almost instantly I knew I had broken something in my right arm. I tried to move my arm, but I couldn’t bare with the pain. Dots started covering my vision and slowly everything stared going black. The next thing I know is consciousness is slipping away from me and I black out.

  “We should just kill her already!” one of the impatient orcs says. The others nod in agreement.

   The leader booms “No! I want to make sure she repents”

   My eyes flutter open and I can’t move. I notice the ropes that are tying me. I fight with the ropes to make me free.

   “It’s useless, sweetheart,” someone says once they all notice I’m awake.

   I look up and see a very unpleasant sight: the leader of the orcs smirking at me. The victory showed in his face repulses me.

   “Go rot in hell!” I spit.

   He punches me and I feel my mouth fill with the taste of blood. I spit it and smirk at him to leave the message clear: I’m not defeated and I will never be.

  He grabs his sword and I know what his about to do. Yet, my eyes dare him to do it.

   Suddenly, a blinding light fills the forest and makes the orcs disintegrate into gold dust. I search for the source of the light with my eyes. Whatever it is, will it kill me too? After a while, I spot it hidden behind some bushes. I couldn’t believe my eyes, it’s a unicorn! And it just saved me…

The Giver - Intro

Style

Defining Style    

Checklist: Elements of Literary Style

Key Aspects in Analyzing an Author's Style

Discuss the following concepts about writing style:

• Analyzing author's style involves understanding the particular way a piece is written.
• Style in writing is not what is said but how it is said.
• Analyzing author's style involves analyzing the writer's unique way of communicating ideas.
• Styles in writing are created deliberately by the author to convey a specific mood or effect.
• Key aspects in styles of writing include:
1. sentence length, structure, variation, and position
2. the use of sensory details, figurative language, and other literary devices
3. the use of sound devices--alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, repetition
4. the use of dialogue
5. word choice
6. tone
7. the use of local color
8. the use of irony

The style that an author uses influences how we interpret the facts that are presented. Wording and phrasing can tell us about emotions in the scene, the setting, and characters. If you're still not convinced, consider the differences between the following sentences:

He's passed away.

He's sleeping with the fishes.

He died.

He's gone to meet his Maker.

He kicked the bucket.

The version of that sentence that a writer chooses tells us a lot about the situation, the speaker, and the person being spoken to (the audience). 

DARK THEY WERE, AND GOLDEN-EYED

Answer the following questions in your notebook.

1) How does Mr. Bittering feel about living on Mars? Provide two examples from the story to support your answer.

2) Why are the Bittering's concerned with what has happened on Earth? Support your answer with evidence from the story.

IN CLASS DISCUSSION

3) In your own words what did you think this story was about. (Provide a cohesive and detailed account of what you felt and thought, as you read the story)

4) "The children with their yellow hair hollered at the deep dome of Martian sky. there was no answer but the racing hiss of the wind through the stiff grass." Identify the type of mood this quote has ( + or - ). What words support your answer.

5) Character Analyst. Write a paragraph about Harry using 1 trait to describe him. You need two examples from the story to show how he demonstrates that trait. (What the character says, thinks, does, and/or what other character's think of him.

DARK THEY WERE, AND GOLDEN-EYED

Vocabulary words: convivial, dwindle, flimsy, forlorn, muse, pendulum, recede, subtly

Reading Skill: Mood

Annabel Lee - Edgar A. Poe

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea. 

Edgar Allan Poe

The Giver: Lois Lowry

We will be working with Lois Lowry, "The Giver" as additional text, book must be brought to class on MONDAY either in pyhsical or digital form.

Mood, Imagery and Style