Agree/Disagree Graphic Organizer on The Giver by Lois Lowery



Agree/Disagree Graphic Organizer on The Giver by Lois Lowery

Directions:

View the following descriptive statements about The Giver. Indicate in the “Before” column using a ( whether you agree or disagree. Discuss the statements with the group and complete the explanation of your response. Following group discussion, complete the “After” Column.

| |Before |After |

| |Agree |Disagree |Agree |Disagree |

|1. People are selected for status and jobs in | | | | |

|the community; they are not free to choose, or | | | | |

|to move among designated statuses. | | | | |

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|2. The book’s core argument is about an | | | | |

|economic system | | | | |

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|3. In the society in which Jonas lives, there | | | | |

|are no “educators.” | | | | |

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|4. The fact that everybody’s transition occurs | | | | |

|in December is because Christmas comes in | | | | |

|December. | | | | |

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|5. Being fair and having blue eyes in Jonas’ | | | | |

|society makes him exceptional. This is a key | | | | |

|element of the story | | | | |

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| |Agree |Disagree |Agree |Disagree |

|6. Release in Jonas’ society is not a bad thing.| | | | |

|The word suggests a freedom—even though there is| | | | |

|clearly an anxiety about it. | | | | |

|Explanation: |

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|7. The apple incident (p. 23). is a metaphor | | | | |

|for the “change” in Jonas that foreshadows | | | | |

|what’s to come. | | | | |

|Explanation: |

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|8. Jonas’ community is highly technological. | | | | |

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| |Agree |Disagree |Agree |Disagree |

|9. Societies would function better if they could| | | | |

|eliminate extremities of emotion as in Jonas’s | | | | |

|community. | | | | |

|Explanation: |

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|10. Lowery gives us the symbolic and literal | | | | |

|geography of Jonas’ Elsewhere as a vague | | | | |

|reference to our world. | | | | |

|Explanation: |

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1. Why do children not know their birth mothers? (do you know of any other systems that advocate such a structure?)

2. Wet dream/sexual awakening. Controlled by drugs. We have a clear repressing/suppressing of emotion and desire. Why? Would society function better if we could eliminate extremities of emotion? Is there a difference between having emotion and talking about it?

3. Where is Elsewhere? The symbolic and literal geography of Jonas’ world are vague. How do we conceptualize place? Space?

4. How can you have a clear identity when you have both a number and a name? Are you the number or the name? Does personality=personhood?

5. When is adulthood achieved? Here, they know their jobs at 12. Can we know who we should be at that age? Could others determine it for us successfully?

6. Jonas is alone in a community that emphasizes the collective. And he doesn’t have to follow the rules. He can lie, he can be rude, he can ask questions, he doesn’t have to take medicine. He doesn’t get to play anymore.

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