Keeping the dystopian theme, our teacher chose The Giver as our next book to read. The Giver, a mix of a utopia and a dystopia, was a really exciting book.

Jonas, one of the people living in this utopian community, is chosen as the Receiver of Memories. He gets to discover what life was like before “Sameness.” He experiences what no one else in the community is able to experience. There are both good and bad memories, and Jonas has to Receive them all. He becomes overwhelmed, and sees his community as a dystopia rather then a utopia. He wants things to change. As we read the book, we discover how Jonas deals with being selected as the Receiver. We watch as he changes the community.

My class just finished reading The Lord of the Flies. We journaled our thoughts and questions as we read and then when we finished, we did a book commercial. We were challenged to give our favorite parts of the book while not giving the book away. It was difficult, but here are the end results…

Check out the rest of my class’ book commercial here

http://joaoglca.edublogs.org/2017/03/10/lord-of-the-flies/

http://pedroglca.edublogs.org/2017/03/10/lord-of-the-flies-book-review

http://annaglca.edublogs.org/2017/03/23/lord-of-the-flies/