• Watch the video about prepositions and complete the quiz.

• Check Chalk and complete any missing assignments.

• Please email your teachers if you have questions.

• Read chapters 19-23 of The Giver

• Complete the quiz

• Answer the discussion question

• Make sure you turn in your book when you turn this packet in!

• Start The Giver Project. We recommend that students complete about half of the project today.

  • After reading the entire book, choose ONE of the following projects. You may complete this on the back of this page, or on a separate sheet of paper:

1. Create a poster or other visual display of technology that you believe would exist in the community. Be sure to include specific examples from the novel, such as technology used to decide weather patterns and eliminate colors.

2. Imagine that you live in the community. Create a series of journal or diary entries about your life. Include the name you are given, information about your family unit, how you cope with each year’s new responsibilities, where you perform your volunteer hours, and what you do as you grow older.

3. Jonas wonders what words one could use to describe the experience of sunshine. Use vivid imagery to describe sunshine in a poem.

If you are turning this in on Google Classroom, you will complete this on the original document that was posted the first day of AMI.

• Finish The Giver Project from yesterday.

• Read the lesson about making claims in argumentative writing.

• Choose a claim for your essay about The Giver and put it in the graphic organizer.

If you are working online, there will be a video for you to watch.

• Read the lesson about providing evidence in argumentative writing.

• Choose three pieces of evidence from the book to support your claim.

If you are working online, there will be a video for you to watch.

• Create a counterargument and rebuttal for your argumentative essay

• Today you will begin writing your argumentative essay. Writing your essay will be your assignment for the rest of the week. Try to spend around 15 minutes per day working on your essay. Don’t overwhelm yourself and think you have to get it done in one day.

• There will be a few blank pages at the end of this packet for you to write your response. It doesn not need to be more than one page or so. Please contact your teacher if you need help with this assignment.

• Today you will continue to write your argumentative essay. Writing your essay will be your assignment for the rest of the week. Try to spend around 15 minutes per day working on your essay.

• Today you will continue to write your argumentative essay. Writing your essay will be your assignment for the rest of the week. Try to spend around 15 minutes per day working on your essay.

• Today you need to be finishing your argumentative essay. Today is the last day you will be assigned this essay. Please contact your teacher if you are needing extra time to write. Try to spend around 15 minutes per day working on your essay.

• Optional assignment: recreate a scene from The Giver, take a picture of yourself as if you were a character, and send it to your teacher!

• Watch video over simple sentences if you are able.

• Practice: Write four simple sentences.

• Watch video over compound sentences if you are able.

• Practice: Write four compound sentences.

• Watch video over complex sentences if you are able.

• Practice: Write four complex sentences.

• Identify what sentence structure is used in each sentence.

• Complete any make-up work.

• This would also be a great day to work on the book quiz (Due by April 22nd).

• This is a suggested timeline for completing this quiz. SRI cannot be used to take book quizzes at this time.

• Complete the introduction and character sections.

• Complete the setting and theme sections.

• Complete the plot summary.

• Complete the evaluation.

• This would be a great day to check Chalk and complete any missing assignments!

• There is a video on Google Classroom and on the flashdrive reviewing these terms.

• This is the only assignment this week.

• Complete any missing assignments.