Caldecott Medal

After that the Newbery award was named after him, and it is one of the most prestigious awards (source 2). The Newbery award was made to encourage authors to use their talents and write original books for children to enjoy (source 1). The Newbery medal has been awarded to authors since 1922 (source 2). The judges for the Newbery award made other books that were worth attention runner ups. In 1971 the term “Runner Ups” was changed…

Imagine a world where Technology does not exist, in both worlds we need technology in the giver and the real world. Lois Lowry the author of the giver is trying to show us the point of technology in the novel. In the novel Jonas is the protagonist their world is under control and their jobs are assigned to them. Their community is being watched and there are cameras everywhere in the novel technology is also used. Technology is an important part of our everyday life's, people are always using…

Not too long ago, I reread the most fascinating novel for the second time, but this time with my class. The Giver by Lois Lowry is an absolutely spectacular novel, revolving around a young boy, Jonas, who just turned twelve. Actually, he wasn’t the only one who turned twelve… it was all the Elevens in his community. Meanwhile, at the Twelve Ceremony, Jonas receives the most interesting Assignment of all; The Receiver of Memory. After the ceremony, nothing was ever the same again… for Jonas, at…

Imagine living in a community where there is no pain, feeling, hunger, or differences. Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, writes about a utopian society where everything and everyone is the same, except for The Giver and Jonas. Jonas is a twelve year old boy, who was selected the most honorable job in the community, Reciever of Memory. As excited as he is, Jonas learns that he will become lonely. He was told that the job will give him wisdom, but he will experience pain. Jonas learns about the…

Bart Conner Dedication to one thing in life is hard to accomplish, especially if the one thing requires hours and hours of dedication every week. Bart Conner, an Olympic gold medal winner for the United States and a National Championship at the University of Oklahoma was very dedicated to his career. Bart’s journey to become the outstanding gymnast he is today was long and hard, but it eventually paid off. Even though he had to mature in a hurry, he soon realized that his childhood dream would…

The Giver: Describe an important idea you identified from a written text. Explain why this idea is important An important concept I became aware of in the text was a perfect society, Utopia. A utopian society is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. In the book, The Giver, the writer wrote about a perfect society in which there world is made up of equality, sameness and uniformity. They tried to make their society perfect by taking away colour, pain, love In…

One Murderer. One Game. Sixteen heirs. All these things are involved in the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. When Sam Westing dies, his will is very different than you might normally hear, to get the inheritance, 16 heirs compete to figure out who killed Sam Westing, the heirs all get paired and get one set of clues each. They all have to figure it out by a deadline or else none of them will get the inheritance. When reading the Westing Game it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. The…

In Lois Lowry’s engaging novel The Giver, we meet a young boy named Jonas who lives in a restricted community where everything is planned out perfectly, when Jonas turns twelve his world is turned upside down when he receives the job, the Receiver Of Memory. As entitled Jonas receives memories and this changes his life forever, he receives memories of joy and pain, this drastic change shows Jonas what him and the community had missed out on for so long. “ Life is meaningless without memories”…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel published in 1993 that explores the idea that through the attempt to create a utopia, it is the impossibility of this mission that often times leads to a dystopia. The story takes place in a “community”, where emotions are controlled through discipline and drugs, and “sameness” takes the place of individuality. While on the surface this community looks appealing, the reader quickly learns all that has to be sacrificed in order to make this “utopia” a…

Parents of kids in the school system are attempting to ban certain books from the whole school and/or school system. One of the books that has been band is The Giver by Lois Lowry. The words on the pages in the book scare parents. The words that the author wrote are so powerful that parents are attempting to ban them, because they posses the power to make teenagers think about things bigger than themselves. The Giver has previously been banned for a multiple reasons, including sexual awakening,…