Zohra's+Thematic+Unit+Wiki

Content and Theme: //The Giver//, The importance of individual, memory, relationship between pain and pleasure, duty, courage, utopias, and death Artwork: Frida Kahlo- Death Short Stories: The Choices of Hercules by James Baldwin Drama: Dealer’s Choice Advertising: WWI and WWII propaganda posters dealing with duty and courage Music/Songs: Runaway by Linkin Park Any Color You Like by Pink Floyd (about choice) My Way by Frank Sinatra Films: The Island Novels: Brave New World, 1984 Films: Equilibrium, Logan’s Run Technologies: Glogster, WebQuest

Possible themes for //The Giver://

· Choice · Courage · Death · Importance of Individual and memory · Relationship between pleasure and pain · Utopias

Resources/Materials: · Copies of __The Giver__ · Selected sections from __Brave New World__ and __1984__ · Computers · Overhead transparencies with propaganda images and utopias and artwork of Frida Kahlo · Digital cameras (1 for each group of 4 or 5) · Journals (1 for each student)

Text: __The Giver __

Activities: · Listening to songs about and reading poems about choice · Reading aloud from __The Giver__ · Group discussion on //The Ceremony of Twelve,// included will be a performance of this ceremony · Working in small groups to decipher texts · Working in small groups on Workshop Days for the final project · Final project- students have choice on this project

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