The+Giver+Extras


 * Together we will work towards answering these questions using the inspiration maps templates, to turn our knowledge into an essay. It is important for you to learn this skill as you will be expected to be able to write this way at college.**
 * We will break each question into parts and create a __SEE__ template to help us write. __SEE__ stands for:**
 * __Statement__- a statement about what you will be talking about in that paragraph**
 * __Explanation__- an explanation of why this is so, or why you think it is**
 * __Examples__- examples from the text/story that support your statement and explanation.**

1. Describe the society that Jonas lives in. How is it different from our society? How is it governed, and in what ways is harmony maintained? How are rules enforced? What is the goal of the differences from our society that those in charge of Jonas’s society have established?

2. What is the function of the Receiver (and the Giver)? Why did Jonas’s society decide that it was necessary to have such people? What qualities make Jonas suited to becoming the Receiver?

3. What is Sameness, and why do you think the people of Jonas’s society chose to institute it? What are some of the consequences of Sameness for people’s lives? What fundamental exchange did the people of Jonas’s society make when they instituted Sameness?