1. By Lois Lowry

2. Learning Targets:
I can cite textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
I can determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
I can analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
I can analyze the extent to which a filmed production of a story stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.

3. Suspense Unit Final Project
Finish your mind map using the stories, film clips, and film from our suspense unit.
Go on Google Classroom to view the clips again or review the stories.
Carefully follow the directions on your sheet for the mind map. Be creative!

4. Problems in Society
What do you think are the biggest problems facing our society today?
List five of these problems on your sheet.
Select one and come up with a realistic way to end this problem.

5. Essential Question #1: Which is more important to you? Why?
Is it possible to have both freedom and safety in society?
Freedom - to express yourself and your beliefs and live life the way you want.
Safety - to feel safe and secure and free of danger in your everyday life.
Which is more important to you? Why?

6. Essential Question #2:
What is your idea of a perfect society? Be detailed, specific, and serious in your response.
What would you be willing to sacrifice for this perfect society?

7. Utopia vs Dystopia

8. Dystopia Dehumanization Totalitarian governments
A dystopia is a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. Such societies appear in many works of fiction, particularly in stories set in the future. Dystopias are often characterized by:
Dehumanization
Totalitarian governments
Environmental disaster
Decline in society
Technology vs. Humanity

9. Dystopian Societies in Literature and in FIlm
Sometimes a society seems like a Utopia, but upon closer examination it really is a dystopia:
The Hunger Games
Pleasantville
Often, dystopian literature combines the science fiction genre:
The Island
What causes a utopian society to become a dystopian society?

10. Author Lois Lowry

13. Banned Book

14. The Giver
1. Write about a bad or painful memory that you have. Describe it in detail as though it just happened. 2. If you could have this memory erased from your mind, would you? Explain your answer.

15. Vocabulary – Copy these into your notebook
1. Utopia - perfect place where people can lead perfect lives
2. newchildren - children under the age of one
3. birthmother - biological mother
4. nurturer - a caregiver for the newchildren
5. Elders - leaders of the community
6. Chief Elder - similar to a mayor or governor
7. Nurturing Center - preschool, baby clinic
8. Rehabilitation Center - physical therapy clinic
9. House of the Old - nursing home
Hall of Open Records - Town Hall
11. dwelling ~ homes
12. assignment ~ the job or occupation that you are given
13. transgression ~ violation of the rules

16. Vocabulary – Copy these into your notebook
14. chastise - to punish 15. transmit - to send 16. luminous - radiant, shining 17. perils - dangers, hazards 18. yearning - longing for, wanting 19. adherence - the act of obeying a rule 20. apprehensive - nervous 21. relinquish - to give up 22. obsolete - no longer in use 23. impede - to hinder or slow down 24. disquieting - upsetting 25. carnage - slaughter 26. release - (fill in this definition when you know it)

19. Monday
Turn in your article on Utopian communities. Be sure your name is on it.
With your partner complete the chart on elements of a Utopian society. Use the last page to help come up with elements for the first column of the chart.
Turn in your chart with both names at the top.
Read chapters 3-5 pp in The Giver. Finish this for homework if needed. There will be a quiz this week.

20. Friday
Complete the chart on your desk by making inferences about Jonas’s community. Be insightful with your responses.
Work independently and turn in your chart when you are done.
Finish reading chapter 7 and read chapter 8 by Tuesday.

21. WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF OLD
Examine how the elderly are treated in different cultures compared to Jonas’s community:
Research how the elderly are treated in different cultures throughout the world:
Italy/Greece (Mediterranean)
US/England
South Korea
Japan
China
South American countries
Discuss and answer the following:
Why do you think grandparents are not part of the family unit in this community?
Do you think nursing homes and The House Of Old are the same?
Whose culture would you want to be in if you were elderly?