August 2016 Mrs. Burchette

Homework and Important Dates: Thursday, September 1, 2016 Homework and Important Dates: Read 20 minutes nightly! USA Test Prep AH/R #2– due September 6th (by midnight) Warm-Up: Update your agenda. Pick up your notebooks. Table Discussion: Discuss what has occurred in chapters 1-3 of The Giver

Thursday, September 1, 2016 Learning Target: I can find the main idea in a given passage. Today’s Agenda: The Giver– Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Discussion Questions Thursday, September 1, 2016 The Giver Chapter 4 Discussion Questions As we read chapter 4, consider the following: What did Benjamin do for his volunteer hours? When will Lily start her volunteer hours? Where did Asher and Fiona work? What did Jonas help do at the House of Old? What do they do at the celebrations? Where do they go when one has been released? How did Roberto look when he walked though the door of the Releasing Room? Let’s discuss! Let’s read!

Thursday, September 1, 2016 Application Section Page 3 Application Table of Contents STARS– Finding Main Idea Date Title Page 8/23/16 Title the Chapter 1 8/29/16 STARS– Finding Main Idea 2 9/1/16 The Giver– Chapter 1-4 Questions 3 The Giver Chapter 1-4 Discussion Questions What is significant (important- what does it show) about the airplane incident in the opening pages of the story? Why is Jonas apprehensive about the upcoming Ceremony? How are Assignments determined in the community? Why does the community value ‘precision of language’? What are the different ways the community views ‘release’? Explain the role of Birthmother in Jonas’s community. How is conformity encouraged in the community? What is the purpose of the telling of feelings? Why didn’t Jonas share the incident involving the apple with his family at the telling of feelings session that evening? How are the elderly treated in Jonas’s community?