Name: Meadow Humanities
7th Grade The Giver
Outline for GIVER LITERARY ESSAY
Themes:
Ignorance and Knowledge
Paragraph #1: Introductory Paragraph (GIT)
Grabber Statement (G): You might not realize that you take for granted all the beauty that you see in your daily life. Imagine a world where all of the beauty has been sucked away and no memory of it remains, this is the Giver by Lois Lowry.
Introduce Plot Summary (I): When Jonas get assigned his job for the rest of his life, he is quite surprised when he gets the position as the receiver of memory. He is overwhelmed with his new knowledge about the lost world. He must find a way to show the rest of the community the memories they’re missing out on.
Thesis Statement (T): This society is a dystopia because everyone is ignorant, except Jonas who is isolated and different because of his knowledge. Everyone is locked away from the world. They’re living a lie.
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Paragraph #2: Thematic Analysis
Topic Sentence (T): Jonas’s community is kept ignorant to block out the painful thoughts but ignorance blocks out the beauty too.
Explanatory Sentence (E): The Elders don’t want the community to be hurt by the truth, so they stop everyone from knowing anything, including the most wonderful memories.
Evidence (E): For example, Elders do not allow the community to feel sunshine just because it can burn them. Jonas, however, experiences the memory of sunshine because he is the next Receiver. “…as he lay basking in the wonderful warmth…His skin began to sting,” (page 75). The fact that sunshine can come with pain meant, to the Elders, that you shouldn’t experience it at all.
Analysis (A): This shows that some of the best things in this world are being locked away from the community. The Elders try to keep their citizens safe, but safeness for them only means ignorance. The community should have a choice about their life and what they can feel and see. Safety means that you should have choice and knowledge of the world around you.
Concluding/ Transition (C): Jonas’s community should know the world’s past. They should be able to know what they are missing out on. As soon as Jonas gets his first bit of knowledge he wants to share it with everyone. He wants them to see the beauty they are missing out on.
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Paragraph #3: Thematic Analysis Continued
Topic Sentence (T): When Jonas receives his first bit knowledge about the past, his world changes. Knowledge changes Jonas.
Explanatory Sentence (E): He gets feelings that tear him apart. The community will never experience all these wonderful things.
Evidence (E): On page 84, Jonas realises something big. “…he knew it was ordinary no longer, and would never be again.” Having this new sense of knowledge meant he was different. The Elders don’t allow difference, yet the job the Jonas gets selected for forces him to stand out.
Analysis (A): He knows that no one can have emotions like he has. No one one can understand him. He is all alone and surrounded by a sea of ignorance. The situation that Jonas is in can be looked at in multiple ways. He is the most knowledgeable person in the community. He has great honor and people look to him for advice. But he is alone and isolated. No one knows what he knows. He is different.
Concluding/ Transition (C): Jonas shouldn’t be the only one that knows about the past and the only one who has the wisdom to change the world. This knowledge should be shared with the community.
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Paragraph #4: Concluding Paragraph (ROC)
Reflection on Thesis (R): This society is not a utopia because Jonas’s community is locked away from the beauty and history of the world. The community is ignorant and doesn’t understand that they are being controlled by the Elders.
Overview of Main Points (O): In Jonas’s community, ignorance and knowledge is almost like your ranking in the society. If you have knowledge you are honored, but to Jonas it is a burden.
Concluding Sentence– Comparisons and Connections (C): It is unfair that Jonas, a 12 year old boy, must suffer the knowledge and pain of memories. In our society and world, you are not kept from the horrors of the truth. If someone dies there is nothing protecting you from the sadness that comes with it. The difference between our society and Jonas’s is that we have each other for support. If your grandma passes away you all have people and relatives supporting you through these hard times. A utopia means that everyone has a choice in their life and are free from the lies that hold us back. Sadly Jonas doesn’t get that freedom.
I think that my group worked fairly well together. We all did our parts of the job. I think that Stella and I worked very hard on the project. We were collaborating through text and phone calls and it worked really well. I do think that we worked really hard on the writing aspect of it even when it was 10 o’clock at night. I do believe that we finished it in time and it wasn’t too short or too long. I definitely helped and did my part in this skit. Something that I would do next time is to practice more of the acting and speaking part and memorize my lines better. Over all I feel like my group did a great job.
The techniques that are shown in this value chart are hatching, cross hatching, stippling and random marks. They all are different ways in which you can show value. Hatching means you are making straight lines in one direction. Cross hatching means making straight lines in multiply directions. Stippling means making dots. Random marks means you make any random mark you want to shade it in. The more you do of any technique, the darker it gets. The softer the grafite the darker the marks. This can show value because you can see the light and dark and understand the shadowing. This helps when making a 3D shape.
Meadow’s Math Profile 9/10/16
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I only really start to remember my experiences in math in second grade and at that moment I loved math. I remember when we learned long division and at first it was really difficult and I couldn’t understand it, but then a spark happened. I understood it. I could actual do it right and get the right answer. I loved it and I felt super smart. At that moment I realized that everything that is coming my way will be difficult and I will struggle, but I will push through and make it out. The outcome was so great that I wanted to do more. I wanted to feel smarter. I thought, “Oh this isn’t that hard, I can do this.” It’s hard, but I can handle it and that goes for everything I face in life like my mom having surgery or relatives that are sick. I will get through it.
I have always liked math. Math intrigues me and I am always excited to learn more. Math intellectually stimulates my brain. My favorite thing about learning math is probably the fact that you’ll keep finding way to do the same problem easier and easier. So although it might be hard to learn it, it will be worth it because it makes it easier in the long run. Another thing that I enjoy in math is the fact that you can use it anywhere in life. Math is all around you, you just have to look for it.
I don’t really dislike anything about learning math. What is a bit hard for me, which you may or may not have seen in my brother, is that I freeze up and get really worried if it is very challenging and I don’t feel like I have been given a sufficient amount of time to complete the problem. The clock definitely scares me, even though without knowing that there was a time limit I would probably finish it in time, but it still gets me worried.
I do consider myself as a good math student. I don’t want to sound vain, but I do feel like math comes a little easier to me than some people. I have a feeling that the math gene runs in the family. I can do better in one thing than I can in the other. Somethings I can quickly grab out to and others it takes a while.
I don’t really have a routine for homework. What I do is when I get home I either sit at my desk or sit at the table and get started. I do the quick/easy homework first because then I can get situated and then dive into how ever long it takes. If I get stuck and I have been trying for awhile or something doesn’t seem right I will ask for someone to look it over (maybe my brother) and see where I got stuck or went wrong.
If someone has finished their test early I start to get worried that I am failing and then I don’t do my work and then that gets me more worried… you can see where this is going. I get caught in a trap of my own worry. I do this with my brother too. He is really intelligent and I feel like I have to be as good as him or somehow I have failed. It is really hard to live up to someone like him. I think that covers most of it. I am really excited to have you as a math teacher. From what I have seen you are awesome and I look forward to being your student this year.
Themes
Futuristic downfall of new orleans after hurricanes- city killers
Global warming, ocean rises
SURVIVAL!
Everyone works
Bad education
Conflicts
Father’s relationship with nailer p.57
Swanks and shipbreakers
Swanks-rich, live in a different place, mansions, boats, feasts
Shipbreakers- Workers, lower class, shack, scavengers for quota$, No point of living.
Setting
In a dark place
New Orleans in the future
Child labor
Companies run the system
No ruler, king, president
The drowned cities
Symbols
Tattoos/marks-mean who you are and what you stand for
Characters
Nailer- Unknown age(about 15), lucky boy
Nita- Swank, lucky girl,
Richard Lopez- Scariest man on the beach, drug addict, father p.54
Pima- Sweet but tough, 18, black
Sadna- Mother of pima, kindest, mother to nailer
Bapi- boss of light crew, mean
Important/relavant
Different religious ideas
Fates Luck
Scavenge God
Quite dark and gruesome
This is by far my favorite project of the year. I got to express my self through paint. I had the theme of nature and I really went with it. I love the colors I used and I feel like I really made it my own. With a name like Meadow, I really have always brought drawing or paintings of nature to my attention. It was kind of like a free painting experience. I loved making it and I loved how it turned out.
I am delighted about how my artwork turned out. The perspective that I wanted was conveyed. I love how the skyline was defined. You can’t see it very well in to photo, but the colors look great. This project took a lot of time and effort. I made a lot of mistakes along the way but I had to go with the flow. That is skill the artists must have. It was difficult coming up with the idea and then following through. If I were to re-do this project I would have chosen something easier. I had a hard time with this, but I am happy that I stuck with it because it looks great and I am proud of it.
In 6th grade so far we have worked on our poetry skill. Before poetry was introduced this year, I had already taken a liking to it. It really is an art and I can express a lot of my thoughts through this writing. I worked really hard on my memory poem and I have chosen that one to share in front of all the parents. We have explored many different styles of poetry and all of them are so different from one another. I hope that I continue this subject further in school.
Rebels run the world! Luke Skywalker, Beyonce, Amy Schumer, etc. In the book Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples, Shabanu is definitely a rebel, but she lives in Pakistan, she is a muslim and has a strict father. That means she is beaten and hurt by being a rebel, which is very different than being a rebel in New York City. Shabanu’s life is ruined by many things including herself. Shabanu’s characteristics hurt her because she is not proper, she is impatient, and she is rebellious.
Shabanu being not a proper muslim girl causes her a lot of problems. She is a wild girl, “I bite him like a wild animal” (page 61). She also speaks her mind, which a muslim girl is not supposed to do. “I clamp my mouth shut, But I am not ashamed of what I think.” (Page 213). Much of what Shabanu does isn’t “proper” in the islamic world. She gets beaten for these things which is why it hurts her and changes her. People treat her differently because to them she is acting unladylike. There are other traits that fight against her in life, like being demanding.
Shabanu is impatient and this affects her life in a bad way. Shabanu isn’t patient, but that isn’t such a bad thing. “When the platform slows I’m more excited and pleased than relieved. I want another ride.” (page 51). This isn’t a bad trait. This means she can get things done quickly and efficiently. Shabanu won’t wait for life to come to her, she will tackle life head on. This will help her in life because she will get things done. Shabanu is also a defiant girl.
Shabanu is hurt by her rebelliousness. Being a rebel in Pakistan is very different from being a rebel in New York. It might be cool to be a “rebel” in the city, but there it is a disgrace. Shabanu will fight for herself. “I fight them, ‘I won’t do it!’” (page 191). She won’t give up her opinion and take her father’s one instead. “I will not marry a man whose wives will make me their slave. I’ll die first.” (page 234). This won’t sound very strange to an american because americans would say the same things, but in Pakistan it is forbidden to not follow your father on your religion. In the Islamic tradition, these type of things that Shabanu thinks are out of the ordinary. This makes everyone think of Shabanu as weird and that is why it hurt her, physically and mentally.
No matter who you are and where you come from, your characteristics can be taken the wrong way. A good trait can be a bad trait across the world. Shabanu’s life has been ruined by not being an ordinary muslim girl. Shabanu’s traits hurt her because she is substandard, she is demanding, and she is rebellious. Shabanu wants to have carte blanche, but by trying to get that she has dug herself a deeper hole. Muslim girls don’t get that sense of having their own life. People need to know that for every bad trait there is a good trait inside. This is mostly directed towards women because there are standards that women have to live up to, but they shouldn’t be like that because women should be rebellious against sexism in everyday life.
Light shines through the door
Voices chatter loud and clear
The clock ticks by fast