Sameness Feedback

In The Giver Lois Lowry uses the word sameness a lot. Whenever the surroundings are described, Lois Lowry uses the word same or sameness to show it. The reason the word equality isn’t used is because people can be equal even if they don’t wear the same clothing. In sameness, they grow up the same, they wear the same things. If you’re equal, you can still dress differently and act differently depending on what type of person you are. Equality is when people are treated equal, and sameness is when people are the same in every way. In Animal Farm, equality is a more fitting word because it is describing more of a ruling then the way people act. Today, sameness doesn’t exist. There is no where in the world where there are people who are exactly the same in every way, there aren’t even people who are the same to the extent of The Giver. Lois Lowry uses language much more precious language because it really adds a lot to the story. Every time we read the word “sameness” we start to get a more bland feeling to the community. The word sameness really describes what life is like in the community.

Giver Feedback

The age that is considered adult in the book The Giver, is very different to the real world. In my opinion, the age that someone would become an adult is 18. At that age, a person would have enough responsibility to be able to live his/her life be their selves. To be an adult, you have to be able to manage your life and know how to sustain yourself without help from parents or guardians. At the age of twelve, like in The Giver, it isn’t a proper age to become an adult because they aren’t mature enough and they don’t know how to live without their parents. When someone is an adult, he or she has to be able to move out, away from their parents, start work, and make enough money for them to support themselves. The age of twelve is way too young for that.

There is no definite age for when an adult becomes un useful because it depends on what his job is. If a person is a basketball player, he will become useless at the age of 40 or so. If a person is a job like a doctor or a scientist, he will be useful for much longer. In The Giver, there is no age stated when a person becomes useless, but I would assume that it is about 60. The age of retirement really depends on the person, because some people would want to work longer than others.

My UbD Outline

Here is my outline for my work time in humanities…

Monday-Bilingual Brochure Work… Start editing HRP

Tuesday-Continue Editing of HRP

Wednesday-Editing Data Analysis

Thursday-Peer edit HRP in class… Star Editing Independent Investigation

Friday-Put final touches on DA, II, CE and go to 2^nd round of HRP edit