The Giver Study Guide
Study Guide for The Giver
This extensive study guide workbook covers comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar & enrichment ideas related to The Giver for 7th-9th graders. As students read, they complete worksheets, writing topics, hands-on activities and field trips.
The study guide is broken down into weekly units in which students read a section of the novel and answers comprehension questions pertaining to those chapters. Each unit contains a variety of critical thinking activities including projects, drawing, writing assignments, and a puzzles which correlate to chapters in the novel. Writing assignments apply concepts in the story to the student's life and many passages are chosen to emphasize Biblical lessons that relate to the story.
Total Language Plus study guides are designed to take about 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Depending on the number of activities students perform and the degree of emphasis placed on composition skills, this study guide may serve as your complete Language Arts curriculum.
Barbara’s Notes: This story is particularly well suited for students who are not strong readers, but desire mature subject matter. Warning: Controversial! (Grades 7, 8, 9)
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Jonus has been chosen for an honor rarely given in his perfect community where there are no choices, no fear, no pain. He will receive truth - and nothing will ever be the same.
Book Summary — 108 pages
Book Category — Fantasy
Theme — Truth
Setting — The Community
Novel Study Highlights — 6 units
Spelling-Vocabulary — Light to Medium
Critical Thinking — Difficult
Biblical Focus — Free will, honesty
Related Studies — Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, communities, families, educational systems
