Vocabulary
Grammar Rules
Unit Concepts
The Giver
R+W Handbook
100

This vocabulary word means to damage or weaken

What is undermine?

100

A complete sentence needs these two things to express a complete thought

What is a subject and a verb?

100

A story set in a society that seems perfect at first, but is later revealed to be controlling, unfair, or frightening

What is dystopian fiction?

100

The pills are administered to citizens to control their

What is emotions?

100

To determine the theme, we annotate

What is the 4Cs (Characterization, craft, conflict/resolution, and change)?

200

This vocabulary word's definition is to twist in great pain

What is writhing?

200

When writing a citation, the period goes

What is after the parenthesis?

200

A moment that changes the direction of the story is a 

What is a turning point?

200

In the Giver, releasing someone means

What is to kill them?

200

A theme is

What is a universal message the author wants readers to learn about life?

300

This vocabulary word's definition is a strong and adverse reaction by a large number of people

What is backlash?

300

FANBOYS stands for

What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?

300

The major turning point in the Giver is when

What is Jonas witnessing the newchild's release and realizing the truth about release?

300

Jonas realizes he needs to execute his and the Giver's plan early when he learns that

What is Gabe is going to be released?

300

Compare and contrast a simile and a metaphor

What is they both compare things, but similes use like or as while metaphors are a direct comparison?
400

To chastise is to:

What is to rebuke or reprimand severely?

400

When you add a describing phrase (often with an -ing verb) to the end of a complete sentence, set it off with: 

What is a comma?

400

The community gives all its memories to the Receiver in order to

What is protect the other citizens from the painful memories?

400
The Giver was deeply affected by the release of the previous Receiver, Rosemary, because

What is she was his daughter?

400

The sentence "We've been at this for a million hours" is an example of

What is a hyperbole?

500

Decency is:

What is behavior that is acceptable or moral?

500

Where should the apostrophe go in the following sentence?

The community had taken away the citizens choices.

What is after the s in citizens?

500

What is one method of control the community uses on its citizens? What does it take away?

EG: The pills take away their strong feelings, like love, so no one questions the rules

What is release takes away their life, assigned job takes away their ability to choose their own career, assigned families takes away their ability to choose a partner or children, etc?

500

When Jonas asks his father if he loves him, his father scolds him because he isn't using

What is precision of language?

500

Personification is 

What is to give human actions or feelings to something not human?
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