1. Essential Questions The Giver
Adapted from Original Lesson by Ms. Agresti
English Skills

2. Agenda: Essay Reminder Homework Check Questions about Ch. 4 & 5?
Essential Questions
Reading Ch. 6

3. Essay Reminder!
Remember – if you would like to resubmit your essay for a higher grade, you MUST come talk to Ms. Lutz about the corrections you need to make.
Resubmissions are due by November 14th

4. Homework Check! Open your books to chapters 3 & 4
Ms. Lutz will come around and check that you have read and annotated your books.

5. Questions about Ch. 4 & 5
Any questions about what happened in chapters 4 & 5?

6. What is an Essential Question?
Important questions at the heart of a matter
Questions that reoccur throughout your life
These questions help students to make sense of BIG IDEAS and cause genuine thought about the central topic of a unit
There will not be a yes or no answer to these questions
The aim of these questions is to stimulate thought, spark more questions from the students

7. Essential Questions for The Giver
Is a perfect society possible?
What traditions are worth following?
When is it alright to reject or fight against a tradition?
What is the difference between the rights of an individual and the welfare of an entire society?
Why do we conform?

8. Essential Questions for The Giver
6. What are the dangers of conformity in a naturally diverse society?
7. Why are memories important?
8. How does new knowledge change our beliefs, behavior and decisions we make? How does knowledge of our history
9. How much government control is too much?
10. When and how should an individual take a stand in opposition to an individual or large group

9. Chapters 1& 2 Essential Questions
How can discussing feelings be both an advantage and a disadvantage to a person?

10. Group Work
Take 3 minutes and write down your thoughts about the essential question for chapters 1 + 2:
How is discussing feelings both an advantage and a disadvantage?
Talk in your group – what does everyone think. Do you agree about the reasons it is a good/bad thing?
Talk as a class

11. Chapters 3 & 4 Essential Questions
How is the treatment of the old in the Community different or the same from the way the elderly are treated in our society? What does the treatment of elderly show about a society?

12. Group Work
Take 3 minutes and write down your thoughts about the essential question for chapters 3 + 4:
How is the treatment of the old in the Community different or the same from the way the elderly are treated in our society? What does the treatment of elderly show about a society?
Talk in your group – what does everyone think. Do you agree about the reasons it is a good/bad thing?
Talk as a class

13. Reading Questions
In your small groups, answer all of the questions on the handout (Chapters 3 – 5).
You have 15 minutes to answer the questions.
Discuss questions as a group

14. Reading Time
In your small groups, take turns reading the beginning of chapter 6.

15. Chapters 5 & 6 Essential Questions
How do the significant events for each age group represent adolescence in life?

16. Chapters 7 & 8 Essential Questions
How much freedom should people be given when choosing jobs?

17. Chapter 9 & 10 Essential Questions
How much freedom should people be given when choosing jobs?

18. Chapter 11 & 12 Essential Questions
What is significant about “Sameness” and how can this way of life eliminate problems in a society? How is the ideas of “Sameness” both confusing and frightening?

19. Chapter 13 & 14 Essential Questions
Why has the community eliminated most of the choices for people and how is this both an advantage and disadvantage to the society?

20. Chapter 15 & 16 Essential Questions
Which are more important to people, bad or good memories, and why?

21. Chapter 17 & 18 Essential Questions
Why is it important for emotions to be strong?

22. Chapter 19 & 20 Essential Questions
Why is Jonas horrified to learn the truth about Release and why did the community adopt the practice of Release?

23. Chapter 21 & 22 Essential Questions
What prompts Jonas to continue his journey and how is his love for the community a catalyst for his journey?

24. Chapter 23 Essential Questions
How does Lowry foreshadow the ending and what does the author appear to be saying about the society through the ending?