L.I. I am learning to describe the importance of events in the plot

S.C.

• I can describe some details of a scene

• I can explain why I think it’s important.

Task 1: Watch the teacher video which explains our learning focus and how to be successful in today’s task.

Instructions for today’s tasks:

In your literacy workbook add to your vocabulary page.

Chapter 22 and 23 vocabulary: tentatively, meager, impeded

Read Chapter 22 and 23 of The Giver.

You can choose to either listen to the audio book video (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-oLRYuzto , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_EuRgEVW0 ) or read Chapter 22 and 23 independently (link to online version of The Giver text: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxjbGFzc2FsYmVydGl8Z3g6NzE3OTEzYzE0YTgxYzUyZA - scroll down to about page 172).

In your literacy workbook, write the heading ‘Chapter 22 and 23’, and then write your chapter work responses for Part A, Part B and Part C.

Part A - Write a definition for each of these words:

• Tentatively

• Meager

• impeded

Here is a link to an online dictionary: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

Part B - Plot events

Choose your own quote and plot event to describe, or you use ONE of the ones below. You need to describe what happened in the scene and why it is important.

1. “All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.” (p.172)

2. “Jonas remembered, suddenly and grimly, the time in his childhood when he had been chastised for misusing a word. The word had been…” (p.173)

3. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love. (p.174)

4. “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time….he thought he heard music too…” (p.180)

Part C - Write a Chapter Reflection

Write any thoughts, feelings or questions you have about these chapters.

Ideas to help you write your reflection:

• Were Jonas and Gabriel safe? How do you know?

• What is your opinion about the ending of the book?

• What is the part of the book that you visualise most clearly?

• What do you think happened to Gabe and Jonas next?

Optional extension: Literary Term - Symbolism

Choose one of these three symbols from the text to examine and write your response to the questions for it.

1. “The road was narrower, and bumpy, apparently no longer tended by road crews. It was harder, suddenly, to balance on the bike, as the front wheel wobbled over stones and ruts, (page 171).”

How can a road symbolize life? Explain how the author is using the physical setting of the road to describe Jonas’s conflict.

2. “As Jonas watched, a snowflake drifted down and was caught briefly for a moment’s sparkle in the tiny fluttering eyelashes,” (page 176).

What does a single snowflake symbolize?

Explain how the author uses this symbolism to show the importance of Jonas’s and Gabriel’s relationship in this scene.

3. The setting of the snow-covered hill is the most important feature in this final chapter.

What does a hill or a mountain symbolize?

Using your knowledge of this symbolism, explain how the author uses the hill in this chapter to give Jonas’s experience meaning and power.

LI: We are learning to create our own trickshot video

SC: I will be successful if make at least one cool trickshot!

LI: We are learning to spell our selected words consistently

SC: I can write my words carefully

I can set out my work neatly in my exercise book

Activity One

Write out all 10 of your spelling words again.

Activity Two

You will need to write all your spelling words in the list attached.

You will need to write the word, number how many sounds in the word, split the word into its graphs, digraphs or trigraphs, then finally analyse the tricky part.

In case you wanted to print it out, the spelling grid sheet is posted on the Grade 6 Google Classroom.