The Giver: Advanced Post-Reading Assessment
Names:___________________________________________________________________
After reading The Giver, complete the following questions and activities-this is your final assessment. You
should work with a partner. All work should be typed and completed in paragraph form. Please label/number
each section of your assessment appropriately and make sure your names and class period are listed.
1. Read Lois Lowry’s Acceptance Speech on pages 170-181 on your book. Discuss with your partner how
the memories Lowry describes from her own life influenced the book. Choose 4 of the memories she
describes and show/describe how that life experience connects to The Giver. Be clear in what ideas or
parts of the story you think were specifically influenced by each memory. Write a separate paragraph
for each of the four memories you are choosing to connect to The Giver. The seven memories she
shares from her life are summarized below:
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1948-living in Tokyo
1954-55-a college freshman living with other girls
1979-summer work in Maine with the painter
1989-Germany, her son’s wedding
her father at 90 in a nursing home
1991-question asked to her in an auditorium
lunch with her daughter when she sees news of shootings in Oklahoma
2. Write a Prequel OR a Sequel to this novel!
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Prequel Instructions: What happens next?! Write a chapter 24 to The Giver. In it, explain what awaits
Jonas and Gabe at the bottom of the hill. You may also describe the future of the Community and The
Giver. Your chapter should be at least 1 page, typed using 1.5 spacing, and should imitate Lois Lowry’s
style of writing.
Sequel Instructions: How did this community come to be the way it is? What happened between our
time and theirs that caused the world to be so safe, organized, controlled and twisted? Was it a great
war? Did it happen slowly over time? Write a prequel explaining how and why the Community went to
Sameness. Describe when Sameness began and how the Community achieved it. Your prequel should
be at least 1 page, typed using 1.5 spacing and should imitate Lois Lowry’s style of writing.
All work due by the
end of class Thursday!
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End of Giver Assessment Rubric
End of Giver Assessment Rubric
Activity #1
Activity #1
Quality of Content: Student made strong,
thoughtful connections between four of Lowry’s
memories and their influences in The Giver in
paragraph form, citing specific examples from the
text.
Quality of Content: Student made strong,
thoughtful connections between four of Lowry’s
memories and their influences in The Giver in
paragraph form, citing specific examples from the
text.
12
12
9
6
3
0
9
6
3
0
Conventions: Correct punctuation, capitalization,
and word choice were used with minimal other
grammatical errors throughout.
Conventions: Correct punctuation, capitalization,
and word choice were used with minimal other
grammatical errors throughout.
6
6
4
2
0
4
2
0
Activity #2
Activity #2
Quality of Content: Student captured Lowry’s
writing style and used ideas that were creative,
thoughtful, and in-line with major fictional
elements of The Giver.
Quality of Content: Student captured Lowry’s
writing style and used ideas that were creative,
thoughtful, and in-line with major fictional
elements of The Giver.
12
12
9
6
3
0
9
6
3
0
Conventions: Correct punctuation, capitalization,
and word choice were used with minimal other
grammatical errors throughout.
Conventions: Correct punctuation, capitalization,
and word choice were used with minimal other
grammatical errors throughout.
6
6
4
2
0
______/36 Total Points
4
2
0
______/36 Total Points