The Giver
The Giver 2.0
The Village & The Lottery
Dystopias & Utopias
Content Vocabulary
100

The protagonist of the novel.

Who is Jonas?

100

During this ritual, each person shares and emotion they have with the members of their family units.

What is The Sharing of Feelings?

100

This person is the protagonist of The Village.

Who is Ivy Walker?
100

This type of control occurs when one or more corporations control society through products, advertising, and the media.  

What is corporate control?

100

Which content vocabulary word best describes the ants in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPrRST1mChk 

What is conformity? 

200

This term is considered a bad word in Jonas' community; there are 2 honorable reasons it happens - with a newborn and with an elderly person.

What is releasing?

200

In Jonas' community, this person's role is to give birth 3 times.  She is pampered and fed well during her pregnancies, but then becomes a Laborer until she is sent to The House of the Old.

What is a birth mother?

200

The type of control seen in The Village could be described as this.

What is philosophical control?

200

This type of control occurs when society is controlled through mindless government officials through nonstop regulations and an excessive adherence to rules.

What is bureaucratic control?

200

Which content vocabulary word could best be used to describe the following makeup commercial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTgeUVOxl8E

What is propaganda?

300

This group of people makes the decisions about who will perform each job in the community.

Who are the elders?

300

The occurs before a person is released and could be compared to a eulogy at a funeral.

What is a Telling?

300

The creatures in The Village keep the people in the community in a state of _______  _______ of the outside world, which is one of the characteristics of a dystopia.

What is constant fear?

300

This type of control occurs when society is controlled by technology - through computers, robots, and/or other scientific means.

What is technological control?

300

Which content vocabulary word could best be used to describe these old cigarette commercials?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bf4KSfaxPw

What is ignorance?

400

These are the feelings that a person gets when they are attracted to another person; in Jonas's community, they are treated with pills.

What are stirrings?

400

Name two ways that Jonas' father attempts to help Baby Gabriel.

1. Uses his name

2. Brings him to their family dwelling 

400

In The Village, The Elders convince the citizens that the color red will attract the creatures.  This type of misleading information is known as _____.  

What is propaganda?

400

This type of control occurs when society is controlled by philosophy or religious ideology, often enforced by a dictator.  

What is philosophical or religious control?

400

Which content vocabulary word could best be used to describe the Bark program?

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/08/27/how-bark-helps-parents-keep-kids-safe-online.html

What is surveillance?

500

Jonas and Gabriel have this feature in common.

What are pale eyes?

500

This character is good at making people laugh.

Who is Asher?

500

In The Lottery, citizens live in a _____ state; once a year, they throw rocks at a one person and kill them.  

What is a dehumanized state?

500

In a Utopian society, citizens are under the impression that their government is _______ and ______ _______.

What is peaceful and good natured?

500

Which content vocabulary word could best be used to describe the images in the following video?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqsb9FqdpVk

What is dehumanize?