Download The Giver – Choice Board

The Giver – Choice Board
Chapters 20 -23
Welcome to your second of many choice boards. I will use these boards to assess your
reading comprehension of the chosen chapters. I will also learn about your strengths and
interests based on your board selections.
Please choose TWO of the following squares and complete their assigned tasks.
Drawing
Writing Task
Perspective / Journal
Sketch the view from the top
of the mountain BEFORE Jonas
and Gabe sled down.
Pretend you are Jonas. I want
you to write a final good-bye
letter to another character in
the book (Fiona, Asher, Mother,
Father or The Giver).
Write a journal entry from the
perspective of Jonas’ Father
when he discovers Jonas and
Gabe have left.
You may choose the view
perspective (Jonas, Gabe, the
Reader, Omniscient narrator)
Remember: This is Elsewhere.
What does that mean to you?
Read the last paragraph very
carefully. There is a special
event happening.
Be descriptive, personal and
emotional.
Be sure to use first person and
include feelings, emotions and
descriptive words.
What do you want to tell them?
What do they need to know?
Music
Historical List
Comics
The Giver speaks of his ability
to hear beyond, to understand
music.
Jonas receives several painful
memories about war and other
disasters from the past.
Your task is to explain the most
important events of chapters
19-23 through a comic.
You have been given the
opportunity to share a favourite
piece of music with Jonas who
will hear it for the first time.
Create a list of SIX different
events in history that give
people pain.
You are required to create a
comic containing at least SIX
frames.
For each event, outline why
these events are so painful.
Why do you think these events
are taught to our society?
Map out your comic frames first
to be sure you have included the
most important events.
Explain (in detail) why you
selected this piece for Jonas’
first introduction to music.