The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver

By: Lois Lowry

Grades: 6-8

Genre: Fiction

Lexile Level: 760L

Winner of the Newbery Medal

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in the ideal world. He is given the assignment as the Receiver and begins to understand the dark secrets that lie in his community. This is a story about the relationship between the Giver, Jonas, Baby Gabe, and a mystery character.

Possible Learning Activity: Students will use the text to make predictions while reading, compare and contrast characters, and examine plot, conflict, climax, and resolution by “tagging” using sticky notes.

Standards:

AASL: 1.1.1 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects and make the real world connections for using this process in own life.

1.1.7 Make sense of information from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions, main and supporting ideas, conflicting information, and point of view or bias.

Common Core Standards: CCSL.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

CCSL.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Objectives:

1. Students will interact with the text of the novel by tagging while reading. Using sticky notes, they will write questions, characterization, plot, climax, conflict, resolution, etc.
2. Students will participate in class and small group discussions on the things they tag.

Possible Learning Outcome: Students will gain a better understanding of different literary elements by thinking critically while reading.