Dienstag, 12. April 2011

Post-Reading activity // review + short summary

The book "The Giver" by Louis Lowry was published in 1994.
The story is about Jonas who is twelve years old and lives in a community which is perfect organized.
Every year you have to go to a ceremony and after the ceremony of twelve (which is the last) Jonas is selected to be the next "Receiver of the memory". He gets a hard training by the old "Receiver" who later will be called "The Giver" from Jonas.The training is going by and Jonas noticed that something must change in the community and so he decides to ...

Before I have started reading the book I have thought that the book isn't interesting but as I started to read I have found it very exciting. everybody told me that "The Giver" is very boring but it isn't it is nice to read and the life in the community is very different to the normal life. But the Life in the community has advantaged and disadvantages. One of the advantage is that everything is strictruled and there are no problems.

1 Kommentar:

  1. Katharina,
    The first part of your post could be a cool "blurb" of the book, as you give just enough information to awaken the interest of possible readers and at the same time you don't give too much details away staight ahead.

    I am glad you liked the book in the end - even if there were other pupils of other classes saying it was boring.

    Some ultimate words on language:
    - always check whether you ae using words as adjectives or adverbs (-ly needed!)
    - check the difference between "from" and "by"
    - mind the tenses! (such as backshift of tenses in indirect speech!)

    PS: I'm looking 4ward to the video!

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