1. By: Lois Lowery

2. Character Chart Jonas The Giver Jonas’s Father Jonas’s Mother Lily Gabriel Asher Fiona Larissa The Chief Elder

3. Rock- Task you must do -Breathing -Eating -Drinking -Medicine When Sick Pebble – Task you should do -Homework -Bathing - Going to School -Go to Practice Water- Task you do if time - Watch TV -Play Video Games - Shopping -Listening to Music Pre Reading Activity

4. Activity 2: Make a list of rules you follow at home and at school Which rules are unnecessary? Which rules are necessary? Activity 1: Make a list of rock, pebble, and water tasks How much time do you spend on each activity throughout your week? Pre-Reading Activity

5. “A Perfect Society” – Pleasantville Clip Modern Day Utopian Societies- elainefitzgerald.com If you were in charge of making a new town, how would you design it? -What would your rules be? -Who could visit? Who would live there? Criteria? -Could residents leave? -Would there be a theme? -Would you have technology? What kind? Utopia

6. “Cloning” for desired traits Bill Nye The Science Guy “Genes” 15:20- 19:48 What benefits can genetic engineering have for humans? What harms can genetic engineering have for humans? Genetic Engineering

7. “I’d rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.” -Jimmy Cliff 1. What would you give up to be free? 2. What would a perfect world look like? 3. How could you have no crime, no happiness, no violence, no jealousy, etc? 4. What things would you have to give up? Would it be worth it? Essential Questions

8. -A booklet of 10 different activities that must be completed and turned in by the end of the novel. -Assemble all activities in a folder, binder, or some other cohesive method. -Please do not turn in until all activities are complete -Mrsscherrman.weebly.com Activity Packet

9. 1.Distraught 2.Adhere 3.Aptitude 4.Chastise 5.Nurture 6.Hoard 7.Disquieting 8.Disposition 9.Chortle 10.Empathy 11. Tentative 12. Frigid 13.Obsolete 14.Benign 15.Jaunty 16.Indolent 17.Unnerve 18.Excruciating 19.Intricate 20.Conspicuous 21.Intrigue 22.Palpable 23.Apprehensive 24.Wheedle 25.Sift Vocabulary

10. 26.Transgression 27.Manifest 28.Ebb 29.Nondescript 30.Enhance 31.Supplementary 32.Solace 33.Permeate 34.Languid 35.Frazzle 36.Dejected 37.Meticulous 38.Assuage 39.Assimilate 40.Petulant 41.Admonish 42.Escalate 43.Magnitude 44.Utopia 45.Sinuous 46.Suppress 47.Exuberant 48.Indulge 49.Luminous 50.Haphazard Vocabulary Continued