This reading engagement activity accompanies chapters 7 and 8 of Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver. As the children in Jonas’s community receive their jobs in the novel, the students in your class will receive (and react to receiving) their own jobs. This allows your students to put themselves into the text and to engage more readily with its themes and plot. Students will have a lot more to say about Jonas’s dystopian world when they have to imagine themselves living within it!

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Printable with character roles, enough for classes as large as 45 students (PDF)
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CCSSCCRA.R.1

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

CCSSCCRA.R.2

Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

CCSSCCRA.R.3

Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

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