The Giver

We started reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. This was a challenging jump from a 5th grade to an 8th grade reading level and it has created a linguistically richer context for students to engage in conversations. The book portrays a future society controlled by many rules so we started talking about what an ideal life/community would look like. The students are struggling a bit with the level of vocabulary and the complexity of the text so for now, we are spending a lot of classroom time reading and marking the text together. Eventually I hope to incorporate more discussions and writing about what we read.

Ms. Park

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Topics: 11Eleventh Grade
Date: Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 1:20 pm