Welcome to our reading blogs on Lois Lowry's novel "The Giver". Us, that's a group of pupils in year 11 at Comenius-Gymnasium in Datteln. In our reading blogs we will publish our thoughts on the chapters, characters and the whole book. As we are very free in the way we approach the book, you might also find other creative ideas that will certainly come up while reading the book. We hope you enjoy reading our blogs and we would be very delighted if we could get some feedback from you.
Friday, 15 April 2011
Happy Holidays!
... good work during the last couple of weeks - here they come: well-deserved Easter holidays.
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Homework for Wednesday, 13th of April
Hi folks,
For Wednesday, please work on one of the post-reading tasks we have developed ... or feel free to do any other post-reading activity of your choice:
Post-Reading Activities:
- Give the book another title and explain why you would chose that title
- Fill in of gaps in the text
- Re-writing the text from a different point of view (person, location, time)
- Remodelling of the text into another text type
- Development of alternatives to the content
- Change the ending
- Developing the characters
- Continue the story: make clear that the progress of the story is to be developed compellingly from what has been read so far (writing style etc.)
- Recapitulate central issues
- Discussions, e.g. hot chairing (>film?!)
- Interview with a fictitious character
- Composing poems, reviews, diary entries, letter to the author, television report, film scripts, short stories
- Comment on central issues / questions the book raises
- Research for background information on the book and on the author
- Write a book review
- Write an epitaph
- Write a blurb for the book
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Homework for Friday, 8th of April
Please finish reading the book until Friday. I'm looking 4ward to posts on the last chapters.
Saturday, 2 April 2011
Homework for Wednesday, 6th of April
As the reading schedule tells you, please read chapters 18-20 for Wednesday and chose a while-reading task you work on and don't forget to publish it for the session on the 6th of April.
Enjoy the nice sunny weekend-weather!
Enjoy the nice sunny weekend-weather!
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