Name:____________________ Grade 6 Summer Reading Assignment INSTRUCTION ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AUTHOR VOCABULARY LIST CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 CHAPTER 18 CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 21 CHAPTER 22 CHAPTER 23 1 INSTRUCTION You have two options to complete the assignment, both of which require your computer. A. You can work on this assignment digitally. Simply type out your answer for each question and send me the finished assignment before or on August 16, the first day of school. I’m all about saving trees! (email address: [email protected]) B. You can write your answers on lined papers. They must be neatly written and organized.. Staple all the pages or put them in a folder and turn the finished assignment in on August 16. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Keep these questions in mind as you read The Giver . You do not need to answer them now. ● How much should a government be able to control your individual rights for the benefit of the society? ● Could something intended for the good of society really be bad? ● What makes an ideal society? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Author Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She published her first novel, A Summer to Die , in 1977. After this serious drama, Lowry showed her lighter side with 1979's Anastasia Krupnik , which became the first in a series of humorous books. She won her first Newbery Award for the 1989 novel Number the Stars . In 1993, Lowry received the honor a second time for The Giver , which would eventually become a 2014 film. More recent works include Son (2012) and Gooney Bird and All Her Charms (2013). In addition to writing, Lowry is a skilled photographer. Some of her work has been used to illustrate the covers of her books, including The Giver and Number the Stars . She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Source: http://www.biography.com/people/loislowry ) 2 VOCABULARY LIST Acquisition: the act of taking possession, getting something Adherence: attachment, devotion and support Admonition: gentle warning; friendly reproof Apprehensive: fearful or anxious, especially about the future Aptitude: a natural talent or ability; quickness in learning Assimilated: to blend in or become similar to one's environment Benign: harmless Buoyancy: cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface Capacity: ability to perform or produce Chastise: to criticize severely; to punish Cultivated: planted for crops Disposition: personality Disquieting: upsetting Distraught: extremely upset; hysterical Embossed: with a raised pattern or design Exasperation: irritation or aggravation Exhilarating: refreshing, invigorating, stimulating Flailing: searching in frustration Frigid: extremely cold Haphazard: random Hone: sharpen Imploringly: in a beseeching manner Indolent: habitually lazy or idle Infraction: violation (of a rule or regulation); breach Integral: essential or necessary parts of a whole Intrigue: to excite the curiosity of, to interest Invigorating: imparting strength and vitality Irrationally: without reason Jaunty: lighthearted, perky, merry Languid: slow, sluggish, listless, weak Lethargy: lack of energy; sluggishness 3 Luminous: bright; brilliant; glowing Meticulous: extremely careful and precise Obsolete: outofdate, no longer in use Ominous: presaging illfortune Palpable: something that can be touched, obvious Permeated: spread throughout Placidly: in a quiet and tranquil manner Poised: marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action Practical: having or put to a practical purpose or use Prominent: important Rehabilitation: the restoration of someone to a useful place in society Requisitioned: asked for urgently or insistently Retroactive: having an affect on things done in the past Rueful: regretful or sorrowful Scrupulous: principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong; conscientious Serene: calm, peaceful Sinuous: curved or curving in and out Sleek: glossy; shiny Solemn: serious; somber; grave Somber: serious, dark, or gloomy Stealthily: secretly Strewn: scattered Successor: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone Tentatively: with uncertainty Torrent: a heavy rain Transgressions: the breaking of a rule, law, or duty Unanimous: agreeing completely with no objections Unnerved: deprived of courage and strength Unwieldy: difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape Vibrance: full of energy Vigilant: on the alert; watchful Warily: cautiously Wheedled: begged with a petulant voice; whined; coaxed 4 CHAPTER 1 1. Describe Jonas’ community. 2. What is this “Ceremony of 12”? CHAPTER 2 3. Why is the Ceremony of 12 so important? 4. What things do Jonas’ parents share with him about their memories of their assignments and of their friends’ assignments? CHAPTER 3 5. What did Jonas notice about the apple? 6. How do all evenings end in the community? CHAPTER 4 7. Where does Jonas spend his volunteer hours? What does he do? What do you learn? 8. What happens at release? CHAPTER 5 9. What does Jonas have to do now that he has had stirrings? 10. Why do you think he has to do that? 5 CHAPTER 6 11. What was the Ceremony of Loss? 12. What else do you learn about release? CHAPTER 7 13. What is Jonas’ number? How are they assigned numbers? 14. Page 56, “Thank you for your childhood.” Explain. CHAPTER 8 15. What is the difference between “assigned” and “selected”? 16. What is this “capacity to see beyond”? CHAPTER 9 17. In this chapter, Jonas receives his rules. What does he think of each rule? CHAPTER 10 18. What is the Giver’s job? What must he give Jonas? 6 19. Page 78, what does this mean: “I am so weighted with them.”? CHAPTER 11 20. What is Jonas’ first memory? 21. What is Jonas’ reaction to the first memory? What about the Giver? CHAPTER 12 22. What happens to color in this community (vs. in memory)? 23. What is Jonas’ opinion of sameness? CHAPTER 13 24. What causes frustration for Jonas? 25. Why is a Receiver necessary in the community? 26. Why does the Giver sometimes send him away? CHAPTER 14 27. What is the first painful memory and what is its effect on Jonas? 7 28. What happens when twins are born? CHAPTER 15 29. What is this memory and what is its result on Jonas? CHAPTER 16 30. What are some good memories? 31. What is the Giver’s favorite memory? Explain. 33. How does Jonas break the rules at the end of this chapter? What implications will this have? CHAPTER 17 34. How is Jonas changing? 35. What is his reaction to his friends’ game of “war”? CHAPTER 18 36. Explain what happened to Rosemary and its impact on the community. 37. Page 145, what do they contemplate? 8 CHAPTER 19 38. What do you find out about release? CHAPTER 20 39. Which of the senses did the Giver have? What was special to him that he hadn’t yet shared? 40. What is their plan for creating change in the community? CHAPTER 21 41. Why did the plan change? 42. How did Jonas know they were looking for him? How did he hide? CHAPTER 22 43. How was the landscape changing? 44. What are new dangers? CHAPTER 23 45. How does this book end? Did you like it, why or why not? 9
© Copyright 2026 Paperzz