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8th Grade Language Arts
Agenda:
Assignments:
-Chapters 16-18 in The Giver (F)
-Comments (F)
1. Independent Reading
-Spelling Test (F)
2. The Giver themes/big topics
-Vocab Unit 7 (F)
3. Importance of the Individual
-Vocab Writing (T 11/26)
-Interview Questions (M 12/2)
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"My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the
same general theme: the importance of human connections...The Giver and Gathering Blue...speak to
the same concern: the vital need of people to be aware of the their interdependence, not only with
each other, but with the world and its environment...I try, through writing, to convey my passionate
awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more,
and doing more, for one another." -Lois Lowry
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Memory
-memory is significant to human life
-without memory, there is no pain
-Jonas' new memories open him to the idea of
love
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Pleasure/Pain
-there can be no pleasure without pain and no pain without
pleasure
-you cannot value the pleasure it gives unless you have some
memory of a time when you have suffered
-cannot appreciate the joys because they have never felt pain
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Utopia
-Greek word meaning not (ou) and place (topos)
-literally means no where
-human efforts to create a better society/a perfect society that
does not exist yet
-a negative meaning used to credit ideas as too advanced, too
optimistic, or unrealistic
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Dystopia
-gradually appears more and more dystopic
-characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian
government
-a fear or disgust of the world outside
-memory of institutions taking precedence over
human memory
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Family
-mutual respect
-no fighting
-no abuse
-personalities of
parents are wellmatched
-no divorce
-BUT NO REAL
LOVE!!
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Sameness vs. Individual
-Community celebrates
the differences between
the 12-year-old children
-12- struggling to carve
out a distinct identity for
themselves
-encourages readers to
celebrate differences
instead of pretending
they do not exist
Release
-actually refers to death
or murder
-beginning: people are
physically sent Elsewhere
-frightening or sad
because no one would
want to leave
-Jonas escapes
and changes the
meaning to its
original meaning
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