THE GIVER
ENRICHMENT TOPICS/SUGGESTIONS FOR LIT JOURNALS
The following items are opportunities for you to take an *active role* in your learning with this novel.
Remember, you must include enrichment items and/or show additional effort in your Literature Journal submissions. Options include any of the items listed here, but you are not limited to what is listed below. Please take them and change them to suit your interests, or come up with your own ideas for enrichment. You may create your own version of anything listed, but DO NOT take pre-made activities, images, ideas, or items without citing your sources.
Grades will be based on overall effort and thoughtfulness in addressing the content and standards for this unit.
Don't forget to check out the Links for more information...it might spark some ideas! You can also download a copy of the Packet & Journal Enrichment Guidelines.
Click here for the Photo Gallery. Scroll down for ideas specific to particular chapters...
Activity Options:
- written research
- images/illustrations with captions/descriptions
- creative writing (stories, poems, etc.)
- puzzles (X-word, searches, cryptograms, etc.) PUZZLES MAY ONLY BE DONE ONCE PER BOOK
- vocabulary words (with definitions, sample sentences, and/or exercise questions)
- family trees/relationship webs--show connections between people, places, ideas, objects in the story
- timeline of events
- write a journal from the perspective of a character other than Jonas
- compare two or more scenes from the the story