We finished The Giver! But unfortunately, we don't really know what happens to Jonas. That's because the ending is ambiguous. We learned that endings in stories can be ambiguous if they can be interpreted in more than one way. Some people in our class thought that Jonas was hallucinating (going crazy) and probably died at the end. Others thought he found Elsewhere and would live on with Gabe. What do you think happened to Jonas?
After we finished reading, we took all our summary stickies from each chapter and put them together in sections like a plot diagram: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Then we worked in groups to write a summary of the book using the stickies and some good transition words.
We wrote other sticky notes in our book too, like questions we had or predictions. We took all the question stickies out after reading the whole book and tried to answer as many as we could. Then we stuck them on a poster so we could see all our questions (there were a lot!). We could only answer mostly the lower level questions (level 1 and 2 on bloom's taxonomy) because the higher level ones didn't have the answers right there in the book. You had to do some research or ask the author! Check out the photos below of our hard work!
After we finished reading, we took all our summary stickies from each chapter and put them together in sections like a plot diagram: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Then we worked in groups to write a summary of the book using the stickies and some good transition words.
We wrote other sticky notes in our book too, like questions we had or predictions. We took all the question stickies out after reading the whole book and tried to answer as many as we could. Then we stuck them on a poster so we could see all our questions (there were a lot!). We could only answer mostly the lower level questions (level 1 and 2 on bloom's taxonomy) because the higher level ones didn't have the answers right there in the book. You had to do some research or ask the author! Check out the photos below of our hard work!