The Giver – Guided Reading Questions

The Giver – Guided Reading Questions Chapters 11 – 23

Chapter 11 1. Once Jonas receives the snow and sledding, how does he feel? 2. Just how does the Receiver of Memories’ training proceed? 3. How are the Giver’s burdens lessened in working with Jonas? 4. What other memories are transmitted on this first day of training? 5. Why did the book’s world eliminate sunshine and hills?Chapter 12 1. What is Jonas’ first lie? 2. Why doesn’t Jonas tell his friends about his training? 3. What is Jonas seeing in Fiona’s hair and the apple and the sled? 4. Why don’t the people in the book perceive colors? 5. What is Jonas’ opinion of giving up colors? 6. How do you feel about the matter of “giving up colors” and Jonas’s opinion?

*The family units in this community have only three books. What three books would you choose if you were so limited in your reading? Explain your reasoning. (3 – 5 complete sentences).

*Why is the community so obsessed with language precision? *How is The Giver shaping up as an example of science fiction?

*What memories do you believe will become most important for Jonas to receive?

*What are your thoughts on the ‘elimination’ of color within the community? Why do you believe this ‘censorship’ exists in this community?

Chapter 13 1. What do the three words below now mean to Jonas: *ordinary *color *choice

2. How would the elders react to the same three words? 3. What does safety mean – to the community, to you, to adults? 4. How is our view of ‘safety’ different from the community’s view of safety? 5. How does the community deal with adults with grown children? 6. What does such an arrangement lose in the ideals we have for the word “family unit”?

Chapter 13 Mutilated Sinuous Electrode WRITE A 5 – 7 SENTENCE SUMMARY OF THIS CHAPTER’S EVENTS. Chapter 14 1. How does Jonas react when The Giver gives him the memory of breaking a leg in sledding? 2. How does Jonas’ understanding and growing wisdom increase after he experiences that pain? 3. What wisdom does hunger provide? 4. Reread the conversation between Jonas and The Giver on page 113. What is the mood at the end of the talk? 5. Why is the mood described this way? 6. How does Jonas calm Gabriel? 7. why does Jonas decide not to confess giving a memory away? 8. Why does Mother shake her head about the release of the twin and Father’s responsibility for it?

Chapter 14 Skittered acceleration writhing Anguish excruciating distended Ominous placid

WRITE A 5-7 SENTENCE SUMMARY OF THIS CHAPTER’S EVENTS. Chapter 15 1. Why is this chapter so short? 2. Why does the author, Lois Lowry, want the reader to relate to the emphasis of such an ideal? 3. How is our world dealing with this same ideal right now, currently?

Chapter 15 Contorted carnage immobilized Chapter 16 1. How does Jonas learn of love? 2. Why are grandparents a new idea for Jonas? 3. What does the community lose without grandparents? 4. What does the community gain? 5. What provokes Jonas’ first lie to his parents?

Chapter 16 Ecstatic obsolete Chapter 17 1. How is the day in Chapter 17 a study in contrasts? (think about relationships, experience of ‘love’, family) 2. How is Gabe proceeding in his growth in life?

Chapter 17 Permeated exasperation expertise Chapter 18 1. What was the story of Rosemary? 2. What happened to the memories transferred to Rosemary? 3. How were the training rules changes as a result of this situation with Rosemary? 4. Why does The Giver advise Jonas to stay away from the river?

Chapter 18 Luminous implore Chapter 19 1. What does Jonas learn about rule 3 from his training rules? (reflect back to page 68). 2. How does The Giver feel about Rosemary’s release? 3. How does Lois Lowry describe Jonas’ feeling at the end of Chapter 19? (include specific text evidence) 4. How did you feel as your read this chapter?

Chapter 19 Solemn wretched tidied Chapter 20 1. Why does Jonas refuse to go home? 2. How does The Giver comfort Jonas? 3. What is the plan Jonas and The Giver hatch? 4. How did Te Giver first experience his sensing beyond? 5. What are specifics of the escape plan? 6. What do you predict will be the outcome of Jonas’ escape? 7. What is the surprising revelation at the end of Chapter 20?

Chapter 20 Empowered rueful mimicked Chapter 21 1. What makes Jonas’ escape plan fall apart? 2. How does the first part of the escape proceed? 3. How has the mood changed by the end of Chapter 21? 4. Is Jonas justified in his escape?

Chapter 21 Meticulously stealthily frazzled Emphatically Chapter 22 1. What new dangers does Jonas encounter in Chapter 22? 2. In which different ways does Jonas think about starvation? 3. Only one chapter remains…How do you predict the book will end?

Chapter 22 Exquisite tantalizing Chapter 23 1. What weather conditions impede Jonas’ progress toward Elsewhere? 2. How do Jonas and Gabe finally get to safety? 3. What is the sensory image at the end of the book?

*Make a chart that lists each type of sensory image – sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing – then using the text, write down specific, text words (in quotes) that Lois Lowry used in the book.

*Make a list of effective similes and other phrases that fit with sensory details, emotions, and descriptions. (5 – 8 examples)

Chapter 23 Imperceptible agonizingly trudged Lethargy