My Giver Performance Task

The Giver Project Options

Choose one of the following Performance Tasks:

1.     Create a poster on paper or digitally that compares your family with Jonas’s.  How are they the same?   How are they different?  Describe why you think your family is easier or more difficult to be a part of.  

2.     Watch this video about musical instruments and then discuss The Giver’s “Hearing Beyond”.   Create a podcast that describes how life without music would be.    http://www.upworthy.com/watch-the-first-54-seconds-that-s-all-i-ask-you-ll-be-hooked-after-that-i-swear?g=4

3.     Underneath the calm of Jonas’s society lies a very orderly and inexorable system of euthanasia, practiced on the very young who do not conform, the elderly, and those whose errors threaten the stability of the community.  Create a poster on paper or digitally that would answer the following questions: 

a.     Define euthanasia. 

b.     What are the disadvantages and benefits to a community that accepts such a vision of euthanasia? 

c.      Give examples through history about the topic. 

d.     What is your opinion of it? 

e.     Is it ever okay to euthanize a person?  When or why not? 

f.       Why should this topic be discussed and debated?

4.     Who would you choose to play the characters of the book and why?  Create a blog post that includes pictures and descriptions of each of the actors that you choose.  Now compare your list with the actual list of actors that have been hired for the movie.  Do you think they’ve made good choices?  Why or why not?

5.     Vocabulary and “Precision of Language” is very important in this novel.  In fact, the community is built upon language that is not precise, but that deliberately clouds meaning.  Consider what Jonas’s community really means by words such as: released, feelings, animals, nurturer, stirrings, replacement child and Elsewhere.  Define each of these words according to the meaning they have in The Giver  and present the meaning in a digital format. 

6.     Look up the word euphemism and write out the definition.  Examine the ways that Jonas’s community uses euphemism to distance itself from the reality of what is called “release”.  How does our own society use euphemism to distance the realities of death, bodily functions, aging, and political activities?  What benefits and disadvantages are there to such a use of language?  Explain why you think the community in The Giver uses euphemism.  Create a poster or digital display that explains this concept. 

7.     Create a book/movie trailer for the book.  It must be at least one minute in length and use at least three different scenes.  Watch this one to give you an idea of what is expected.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo47H_G3YLk

8.     What questions would you ask Lois Lowry if you could?  Create a podcast or video of the interview that you would like to have with her.  

How to add Integers

Duck Dynasty

           Duck Dynasty is my favorite TV show in the world. Jase is my favorite person. The Halloween episode is really funny. I have 2 posters, 8 shirts, 1 hat, and 2 dvd's. My dream is to meet everyone on duck dynasty.

                                                         






                                 

Duck Dynastywww.duckcommander.com

                                  My Grade 6 Memories

My Best Friends are Aidan, Trey and Callyn

My Favorite subject is gym

My Hardest subject is math

My Favorite thing this year is swimming

The sport I am the best at is baseball

My Favorite TV show is Duck Dynasty and The Big Bang Theory

My Favorite color is camouflage

My Favorite Book is Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cabin Fever

My Favorite Movies are The Last Stand and Django Unchained 

My Favorite Song is Radioactive by imagine dragons 

My Favorite game is MineCraft
My Favorite food is Steak 

My Fondest memory this year was when there was a big storm and my dad had to pick me up from school
3 thing I will miss about grade 6 are

1. my classroom   
2.my teacher
3.easy work


3 things I am looking forward to about grade 7
1. new classroom 
2. new teacher 
3.new classmates 

10 things I learnt this year
1.stuff in math 
2. stuff in social 
3.stuff in science 
4. stuff in ELA
5. stuff in french
6.stuff in health
7.stuff in gym 
8.leadership
9.track and feild 
10.swimming

My Science Project on Venus

Venus from Major School

">

My Paper Airplane

My Glogster

The Lorax

I am the lorax,I speak for the trees

Math Graph

 

Hi this is my graph for math. My question is What is your favorite farm animal. You could vote for dog,horse,cat,chicken,cow,sheep,goat,pig,other, and none. The winner was dog then horse came in second. I went around my school asking everybody. It took me one class to do the questions and a full class and at home to make the graph. There now you know about my graph. The End

My Book Review

                                                                     
                                                                       My Book Review
                                            Canada's Woodland Animals
                                          By Chelsie Donaldson 
  
   This book is about woodland animals from wolves,chipmunks, and even white tailed deer. There is neat information about twelve different animals.Did you know that chipmunks live underground. To find out more facts read this book.


I think it is a good information book for research book for school projects 

My Science Fair

My science fair is lots of work but I finally finished this weekend. I picked this question because it seemed like fun, but it was a lot of work. For my experiment I put a peeled banana, banana, ham, cheese and bread in containers and placed them in the window. Then they started to mold and I wrote down things and worked on my board and that's all about my science fair.