Describe your idea of a perfect world. Include as many details as you can think of. Describe your idea of a perfect world. Include as many details as you can think of

Describe your idea of a perfect world. Include as many details as you can think of.

• Describe your idea of a perfect world. Include as many details as you can think of.

Your group is now a “committee” charged with designing one component of a perfect world.

• Your group is now a “committee” charged with designing one component of a perfect world.

• Write your ideas on your chart paper.

• Each group will have one spokesperson.

Each student will get 3 sheets of white paper and 1 half sheet of construction paper.

• Each student will get 3 sheets of white paper and 1 half sheet of construction paper.

• Fold the 3 sheets of white paper in half hamburger style and cut along the crease.

• Fold those sheets of paper in half hamburger style.

• Add a cover made from the half sheet of construction paper.

• Assemble into a book format.

• Decorate the front and include your name.

• Summarize one chapter on each page of the book.

Utopia

• Utopia

• Use the Frayer Model to determine the meaning of the word and list examples.

• Sir Thomas Moore wrote a book called Utopia about an idyllic society supposedly discovered by a companion on Amerigo Vespucci.

He discovered South American a year before Christopher Columbus did.

• He discovered South American a year before Christopher Columbus did.

• He didn’t record his voyages until 1498- that’s 6 years after Columbus discovered the New World.

• “America” is the female version of the name “Amerigo”.

Equality for all citizens

• Equality for all citizens

• Safe environment (no crime)

• Fair government

• Access to education and healthcare

Garden of Eden

• Garden of Eden

• Heaven

The Hunger Games

• The Hunger Games

• Divergent

• The Maze Runner

• What do all of these non-examples have in common?

The prefix dys- means “bad or evil”.

• The prefix dys- means “bad or evil”.

• Based on your knowledge of the word “utopia”, what do you think the word “dystopia” means?

Why is Jonas frightened that it’s almost December?

• Why is Jonas frightened that it’s almost December?

• Why is it weird that a plane flew overhead?

• Announcements are made over loud speakers. What??

• What does “released” mean?

• Children don’t know what animals are.

• Do you have to share your feelings at the dinner table?

Pretend that you can spend up to $1.00 to purchase words with which to write your summary.

• Pretend that you can spend up to $1.00 to purchase words with which to write your summary.

• Each word is worth 5 cents; therefore, you may use no more than 20 words to write your summary.

On a sheet of paper, make a prediction… What is the “Ceremony of Twelve”?

• On a sheet of paper, make a prediction… What is the “Ceremony of Twelve”?

• Turn it in on your way out.

Answer the questions on the Anticipation Guide and then share your responses with a partner.

• Answer the questions on the Anticipation Guide and then share your responses with a partner.

• Keep this in your Reading section. We will come back to it when we finish the book.

A commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries

• A commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries

• Is it positive, negative, or neutral?

What is the importance in Jonas’s community of always using the “correct word”?

• What is the importance in Jonas’s community of always using the “correct word”?

• Think about when Jonas thought about his use of the word frightened.

Afraid

• Afraid

• Scared

• Terrified

• Nervous

• Alarmed

• Panicky

• Anxious

• Upset

• Apprehensive

Come up with an example of how each synonym could be used.

• Come up with an example of how each synonym could be used.

We went there last year and did lots of things.

• We went there last year and did lots of things.

• What are the words that make this sentence vague?

• How can we improve it?

When our family went to Disney World last year, we rode every roller coaster in the park.

• When our family went to Disney World last year, we rode every roller coaster in the park.

• This sentence tells us where, when, and what kind of things we did.

Complete the Precision of Language worksheet with your group.

• Complete the Precision of Language worksheet with your group.

• Think about adding specific words to your sentences.

• How does this relate to word choice in Jonas’s community?

Why does Jonas’s father bring home a baby?

• Why does Jonas’s father bring home a baby?

• What rule in the community is almost always broken with no punishment?

• How did a kid’s life change after the Ceremony of Twelve?

• What is a comfort object?

Pretend that you can spend up to $1.00 to purchase words with which to write your summary.

• Pretend that you can spend up to $1.00 to purchase words with which to write your summary.

• Each word is worth 5 cents; therefore, you may use no more than 20 words to write your summary.