UNIT 7

WEEK 25 - INDIVIDUAL ORAL ASSESSMENT “THE GIVER”

Class: 4th A – B – C - D Time: a week Date: September October 25TH – 29th

Purpose: To reflect on the presentation part of their Individual Oral Assessment (IOA).
Learning evidence: An opinion paragraph with the main ideas and secondary details from the
extracts.
EYES ON ME
Activity 1: Read and reflect on this quote, then comment your ideas:

“I thought there was

only us. I thought there
was only now.”
Jonas, The Giver, 1993

1. Do you think that’s a good way to live?

2. Imagine a world without colour. What colour would you miss most?

3. What value, if any, is there to Sameness?

 LET´S OBSERVE AND READ

EXTRACT A: CHAPTER 11

THE GIVER By Lois Lowry

Jonas felt nothing unusual at first. He felt only the light touch of the old man's hands on his back. He
tried to relax, to breathe evenly. The room was absolutely silent, and for a moment Jonas feared that
he might disgrace himself now, on the first day of his training, by falling asleep. Then he shivered. He
realized that the touch of the hands felt, suddenly, cold. At the same instant, breathing in, he felt the
air change, and his very breath was cold. He licked his lips, and in doing so, his tongue touched the
suddenly chilled air. It was very startling; but he was not at all frightened, now. He was filled with
energy, and he breathed again, feeling the sharp intake of frigid air. Now, too, he could feel cold air
swirling around his entire body. He felt it blow against his hands where they lay at his sides, and over
his back. The touch of the man's hands seemed to have disappeared. Now he became aware of an
entirely new sensation: pinpricks? No, because they were soft and without pain. Tiny, cold,
featherlike feelings peppered his body and face. He put out his tongue again, and caught one of the
dots of cold upon it. It disappeared from his awareness instantly; but he caught another, and another.
The sensation made him smile. One part of his consciousness knew that he was still lying there, on
the bed, in the Annex room. Yet another, separate part of his being was upright now, in a sitting
position, and beneath him he could feel that he was not on the soft decorated bedcovering at all, but
rather seated on a flat, hard surface. His hands now held (though at the same time they were still
motionless at his sides) a rough, damp rope.

Lowry, L. (1993). The Giver

EXTRACT B: CHAPTER 11

THE GIVER By Lois Lowry

But the old man laughed. "All I gave you was one ride, on one sled, in one snow, on one hill. I have a
whole world of them in my memory. I could give them to you one by one, a thousand times, and
there would still be more." "Are you saying that I--I mean we--could do it again?" Jonas asked. "I'd
really like to. I think I could steer, by pulling the rope. I didn't try this time, because it was so new."
The old man, laughing, shook his head. "Maybe another day, for a treat. But there's no time, really,
just to play. I only wanted to begin by showing you how it works. "Now," he said, turning businesslike,
"lie back down. I want to --" Jonas did. He was eager for whatever experience would come next. But
he had, suddenly, so many questions. 4 "Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?" he asked.
"And when did we, in the past? Did my parents have sleds when they were young? Did you?" The old
man shrugged and gave a short laugh. "No," he told Jonas. "It's a very distant memory. That's why it
was so exhausting--I had to tug it forward from many generations back. It was given to me when I
was a new Receiver, and the previous Receiver had to pull it through a long time period, too." "But
what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it?" "Climate Control. Snow made growing
food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation
almost impossible at times. It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to
Sameness. "And hills, too," he added. "They made conveyance of goods unwieldy. Trucks; buses.
Slowed them down. So--" He waved his hand, as if a gesture had caused hills to disappear.

Lowry, L. (1993). The Giver

LET'S UNDERSTAND
Activity 2: Let’s review this vocabulary:
Match the words with the meanings

1. frigid A. the act of moving something from one location to another

2. obsolete B. our awareness of ourselves and our environment

3. perceived C. to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about

something

4. poised D. Out-of-date, no longer in use

5. abruptly E. (adj.) extremely cold; lacking in warmth or feeling

6. consciousness F. quickly and without warning

7. conveyance G. calm; collected; self-possessed

H. an organization or enterprising entity engaged in commercial,

industrial, or professional activities

I. a connection or cooperative link between people or

organizations.

Now, let’s review some linking words:

http://englishteachermargarita.blogspot.com/2017/02/linking-words.html
LET’S PRACTICE

Activity 3: Choose the best option:

1. The first memory the Giver gave Jonas was ______ .
a) a sled ride
b) a horse ride
c) a boat ride
d) a carousel ride

2. What happened to the Giver after transmitting the memory?

a) He no longer wanted to give Jonas any memories.
b) He felt sad.
c) He no longer had the memory.
d) He was ready to give Jonas all his memories right away.

3. Why doesn't it snow in Jonas's community?

a) The community had climate control.
b) The Earth was getting warmer.
c) Jonas's community is near the equator.

4. During the first day of training what did Jonas experience?

a) ice
b) lightning and thunder
c) sunburn
d) rain

5. Why did Jonas feel different at school the day after he started his job training?
a) He was the only person training for his job.
b) He wasn't allowed to talk about his training.
c) He wished he had been given a different job.

Activity 4: Answer these questions from CHAPTER 11

1. How does the author clearly tell the reader that Jonas has never seen or hear of snow
before?

2. What does Jonas learn about climate control?

3. What else did Jonas experience on his first encounter with the Giver?
 4. Given Jonas’ experience with the memories, what conclusions can you make about his
community?

5. Sometimes actions speak louder than words. When Jonas said he understood now
what it was meant by pain after experience the sunburn, the Receiver didn’t respond.
Instead, he sat silently for a second before speaking. What does this gesture tell you
about what is to come (foreshadowing)?

LET'S CREATE AND SHARE

Activity 5: Identify the main ideas and secondary details from the extracts and write an
opinion paragraph:

EXTRACT A

EXTRACT B
LET´S REFLECT

Activity 6: Read the questions and reflect about your learning.

1. What part did you find easy?

2. What was the most difficult part?

Bibliography
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Authorship
Manchego, U., (2021) COAR Teachers: Peru