<p> ESL C: Unit 1 The Giver Reading Check #1 (Ch. 1-3) September 27, 2012</p><p>Directions: Respond to these questions in your notebook.</p><p>Chapter 1 (Pages 1-10)</p><p>1. Who is Asher? What is one way Asher is different than Jonas? 2. What is making Jonas feel excited and nervous? 3. Who are the members of Jonas’s family? What are some facts about each? 4. What is one hypothesis we can create about Jonas’s world based on the fact that neither he nor his sister know what “animals” are? 5. The concept of being “released” keeps coming up. What might being released mean?</p><p>Chapter 2 (Pages 11-19)</p><p>1. What does the Receiver do? 2. What happens during the Ceremony of Twelve? 3. Who assigns jobs? It seems that jobs are assigned based on what? 4. What might be some benefits of having a job assigned to you when you are twelve? 5. What might be some drawbacks of having a job assigned to you when you are twelve?</p><p>Chapter 3 (Pages 20-25)</p><p>1. What is unusual about Jonas’s and Gabe’s eyes? 2. What is a “comfort object”? 3. When Lily is eight, what is one activity she will be eligible to do? 4. What is the role of the Speakers? 5. What is unusual about Jonas’s description of the apple when he examines it after the first strange occurrence?</p>