Vocab.
Events
Symbols
Control
Craft
100
Speaking in a grating voice or tone
What is raspy or rasping?
100
Jonas was terrified when this happened to his community.
What is the plane flying over the community?
100
Fours, Fives, and Sixes get a jacket that buttons down the back to teach them they are part of the community and depend on each other. Name the word used to describe this.
What is interdependence?
100
Lily calls attention to the eye color of Jonas. Lois Lowry uses this to point out something the Giver society that is not liked nor encouraged. Name it.
What is differences?
100
Jonas learns about grief from the memory of this animal.
What is an elephant?
200
Emotionally and/ or mentally upset.
What is "distraught?"
200
This is the time when children are placed with a family.
What is the Ceremony of One?
200
This jacket represents that a seven is becoming independent. Tell what characteristics the jacket has.
What is buttons down the front?
200
The world of The Giver did not want inconvenience of any kind, especially when it came to transportation of food. They also did not want to deal with things like cold, or sunburn. Tell how they accomplished this.
What is climate control?
200
Lois Lowry shows her readers changes in Jonas' life by letting them see all of his thoughts and feelings. Tell what point of view this is called.
What is third person omniscient?
300
To be extremely frustrated or annoyed.
What is "exasperated?"
300
Jonas' mother had to speak with him privately about a dream he had about wanting to bathe Fiona. Because of his new feelings about her, what did he have to take?
What is the pill for stirrings?
300
At the Ceremony of Nine, children receive this symbol of moving out into the community. Name this object.
What is a bicycle?
300
Mother talked about how someone committed a second transgression against the community. If he committed a third, this punishment would be given to him. Name it.
What is release or be released from community?
300
Jonas realizes the family does not know real pain. Tell how the author shows this.
What is the memory of the sledding accident?
400
To be extremely painful.
What is "excruciating?"
400
The author creates suspense by doing this in an important event in the life of Jonas. Name the event.
What is "The Ceremony of Twelve?"
400
At the Ceremony of Twelve, each child is called to the stage, recognized for their differences for the first time in their lives, and given something to show their place in the community. What is it?
What is a badge?
400
Children began this activity at the age of eight, and continued to age twelve. It determined what their jobs would be as an adult. Tell the name of the activity.
What is volunteer hours?
400
The author is able to take abstract concepts and show them to the reader. Name one idea and the memory she uses to show the idea.
What is war and the Civil War, grief and the elephant, holiday/family and love, sailing and peace? (Other answers are a judgement call by the teacher.)
500
A music term meaning to rise in volume (get louder).
What is "crescendo?"
500
The Giver gives Jonas his first memory of an activity done in winter. What is the activity?
What is sledding?
500
The Giver transfers a memory of a holiday with a lighted tree, older people visiting or living with younger ones, and an exchange of gifts. What did this holiday represent? (What word did Jonas learn from it?)
What is love?
500
Small children get a discipline wand, and older children receive public embarrassment for infractions. Name this form of control.
What is chastisement?
500
At the Ceremony of Twelve Jonas is skipped. Tell the feeling this creates in the reader by the author.
What is suspense?
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