LOIS LOWRY'S
THE
NOVEL UNIT PLAN
Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Jonas as he unravels the secrets of a seemingly perfect society in this ready-to-use novel unit plan for The Giver by Lois Lowry.
You want ready-to-use materials that require no prep but still engage your students in rigorous, standards-based content, and highly engaging creative activities.
You are a middle or high school English language arts teacher who will be teaching this novel.
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SO, WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE UNIT PLAN?
1. INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION
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The slideshow will hook students into reading the novel immediately, spark discussion, and provide students with useful information and practical context to prepare them to read.
It includes pre-reading discussion questions, an interactive class activity, a biography of Lois Lowry, a fun review quiz, novel context and reception, and background information on the novel.
2. GENRE PRESENTATION SLIDES
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Students will learn about the common characteristics of the utopia, dystopia, and science fiction genres and will explore how Lowry weaves these three genres together in the novel. With links to movie trailers that employ these genres, your students will be absolutely hooked. After your students have finished reading The Giver, use the remaining slides to review how Lowry specifically incorporated elements of each of the genres into the novel.
3. Chapter Summary Cards
These 23 summary cards (one for each chapter of the novel) outline the most important elements of the plot. Simply print and cut, and you have a resource available that can be used by any student in the class.
• Use it as a teacher and student reference to locate events more quickly.
• Find quotations for an essay more easily.
• Help your struggling readers by letting them read the summary before reading.
• Use it for students to check their understanding of the novel.
4. READING QUIZZES
These quizzes work well for a quick reading comprehension check after each chapter set. Included are ten quizzes to assess student comprehension of the novel. Each quiz includes four to five quotes from the chapter that students must respond to by sharing context about what is occurring at that point in the plot and what characters are involved.
This resource also includes a detailed answer key, which makes for quick and easy grading or class review.
5. VOCABULARY
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This resource was designed to give students the tools and practice they need to determine the meaning of new vocabulary words in context. They will examine quotes from the novel that include challenging words, use strategies to decode what they think the definition is, and check to see if their definition is correct. There is a ready-to-use student vocabulary booklet, a slideshow to teach students how to determine the meaning of words in context, and a slideshow to review the actual definitions with the class.
6. READING QUESTIONS
Help your students examine the text more closely with these reading questions. The questions were specifically designed for comprehension and analysis. Included is a student handout with all the chapter questions and presentation slides that include all the answers to the questions for easy review with the whole class. The answer keys are detailed with text evidence and quotes for support to show students a strong response.
7. ANALYSIS NOTES
Help your students understand the most important literary elements of the novel with this 37-slide analysis notes presentation. The slides were specifically created to analyze some of the most important aspects of the novel, spark discussion, or help students explore elements beyond the literal text. The notes are organized by chapter sets and address important story elements, literary devices, and important ideas in the novel, like characterization, theme, conflict, and symbolism.
8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
In the novel, families are required to participate in a ritual called The Telling of Feelings. During the ceremony, each person describes an emotion they experienced during the day and discusses it with the family. Allow your students to step into The Giver by assigning them a family within the classroom and having them participate in a simulation of The Telling of Feelings ritual.
The Giver Telling of Feelings Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
This creative classroom activity allows students to examine how the elderly are treated in different cultures and how that relates to The Giver. In the novel, the elderly are placed in The House of the Old and are eventually released from the community. Students will learn about how the elderly are treated in South Korea, Japan, North America, France, and in Mediterranean and Latin countries. Then, students will compare what they learn to Jonas' community.
The Giver House of the Old Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
In the novel, the members of Jonas' community must share their dreams in a daily dream sharing family ritual. This activity allows students to simulate this ritual in the classroom by forming a family group and sharing one dream they have felt lately based on prompting cards with common dream elements. Then, they will have the chance to interpret their dreams.
The Giver Dream Sharing Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
In The Giver by Lois Lowry, children are assigned their careers during The Ceremony of Twelve. Bring this into your classroom and allow your students to empathize with Jonas and the rest of the community by taking on the role of Chief Elder and assigning roles to each of your students! The resource includes absolutely everything you need to successfully facilitate a mock Ceremony of Twelve in your classroom.
The Giver Ceremony of Twelve Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
This activity will spark discussion about Jonas' ability to see beyond in The Giver. In the novel, Jonas can see color when his friends and family cannot. Use this fun and interactive class activity with optical illusions to help your students empathize with Jonas' experience and consider how he and the community members feel.
The Giver Seeing Beyond Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
This classroom simulation activity allows students to examine the importance of keeping both painful and joyful memories. In The Giver, Jonas receives memory transmission from The Giver that brings him both pleasure and pain. During this activity, students will receive four new memories and consider whether they are important memories to keep. Finally, students will take on the role of The Giver and decide on one memory from history they think is important to keep.
The Giver Memory Transmission Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
This activity will allow students to examine a world with no pain as the community members experience in The Giver. Allow your students to make a real-world connection to the novel by reading and watching a video about a condition where people feel absolutely no pain. This activity is sure to engage your students in thoughtful discussion about the importance that pain plays in our lives.
The Giver A World Without Pain Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Families in The Giver are selected by the community's Committee of Elders, and partners are assigned two children produced by birthmothers. While this seems like an impossibility in today's society, this activity will give students a real-world connection with the example of China's One-Child Policy.
The Giver One Child Policy Activity
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
Use this assignment as a way for students to review the plot line of The Giver. The resource includes a blank student version of the plot diagram for them to fill out and a detailed teacher answer key that makes for easy review or grading.
The Giver Plot Diagram Assignment
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8. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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13 Ready-to-use, interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for The Giver to life. Students will absolutely love these activities and they will allow them to think deeper about story elements, make deeper connections with their own life and the world around them, and get up and moving within the classroom.
These creative print assignments allow students to explore the novel more deeply, make connections, and respond creatively. They will write a speech from the perspective of The Giver, create a soundtrack for the novel, write Jonas' journal, and examine Lois Lowry's acceptance speech for the Newbery Award for the novel. Finish off your unit with ready-to-use essay topics to encourage students to analyze the text more deeply.
The Giver Creative Assignments and Final Essay Topics
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