A fun way to expose students to concepts and vocabulary terms associated with the novel.

A mini-lesson and worksheets to enrich or re-mediate skills on the three main purposes an author uses for writing.

Write a short story using words from your word bank to describe your favorite fall holiday.

At the end of the year students will write a letter an upcoming student to read on the first day of the new school year.

Read assigned chapters of the novel as a group.together. Write a brief and concise summary. Create an interesting way to present chapters.

The activities are designed to help students gain greater knowledge and awareness of who they are and why they are unique with choice board ideas.

Students will work in a group to create a presentation for a Utopian Society. Each element of the criteria must be utilized.

Students are given the choice of selecting one of the topics, and developing into a 3-5 paragraph writing piece.

These activities provide a fun and insightful way to learn new vocabulary usage in context. Package provides writing ideas for developing writing skills.

The handout provides different activities for differentiation as a study center.

Students will write eight fun facts and provide ten examples of adverb and adjective clauses.

Literary Analysis: Using Elements of Literature to write literary analysis essay because this type of assignment encourages you to think about how and why a poem, short story, novel, or play was written.

Create your idealized Utopian Society. Described the following components: 1. Government/ Legal court system 2. Economy 3. Education/ Healthcare 4. Housing/ Animals 5. Recreation/ Leisure 6. Transportation/ Military

English has a lot of commonly confused words. They either look alike, sound alike or, worst of all, look and sound alike but have completely different meanings. Other words look and sound different but are similar in meaning, and it's hard to determine which is the correct one in a given context. This activity allows students to understand different meanings and better utilize these words when writing.

Students will use this strategy before reading to activate prior knowledge and build curiosity about the novel. Before reading , students respond to several statements that challenge or support their preconceived ideas about key concepts in the text.

This project maybe assigned at the beginning or the end of the school year. The project is an idea for getting to know your students. Students may share his/her project with other students as a means of getting to know each other.

Students will create a visual presentation on the topics associated with The Giver.

Students will locate coordinate adjectives within the text. Examples with page numbers are required.

This assignment allows students to understand and comprehend the literary device characterization.

As an end of the year activity, students will re-live his/ her school year and use writing skills taught throughout the year to complete pages of the memory book. This is a great substitution for students not purchasing a year book.